Like this is something to be optimistic about? Apple controls that OS and it only runs on their phones!
Yeah, it is... :-)
And Apple is a hardware compnay. They design and make the hardware for their products and then they supply software that intergrates better than anyone else's software. There's no good purpose trying to get crappy software to work on Apple products. Why would Apple want to put crappy software on their excellently designed and made hardware? That doesn't make any sense at all... LOL..
So, they additionally made the best software possible for their own hardware. Nothing wrong with that, except the fact that no one else can make as good hardware/software combinations as Apple does...
I guess those other companies will just have to "try harder"... :-)
It would be a disaster to be giddy about this. You have no choice in hardware, no choice in networks, no choice is customizing your phone, heck you don’t even have memory expansion slots.
Now that's funny... that you don't have any choice in hardware. You've got all the choice in the world. Apple makes its own hardware and others make theirs. People have all the choice that they want.
The fact that many consumers are picking Apple's hardware and making it the most successful in their category -- is not a "problem" -- it's called "consumer's choice"... :-)
Apple makes what the overwhelming and vast majority of these consumers are looking for in a product in that market. We can see that, very clearly, by the "numbers" from Apple coming from never having a product in that market (the iPhone) to just 2 and a half years later being at the top in that category...
Wireless companies and app developers will be doing themselves and all of us a favor by branching out to as many mobile OSs as possible (Android being a good choice because no one company dictates its total use), or they will find themselves being owned subsidiaries of Apple.
There's a market for all sorts of other manufacturers, as we can see in the iPod market, for example. They have Apple at around 70-75% of that market -- and all the other manufacturers, combined, at around 25-30% of that market. There will always been the manufacturers who don't know how to design things for the vast majority of the consumers and there will always be a few that stumble into those other manufacturers market niche... LOL...
Well I’m all glad you are all smiles and giggles over your Apple toy, but most people, you know the % that doesn’t use Apple phones, seem to prefer a choice of devices that can run different platforms just as well as the iPhone on more powerful hardware with the ability to expand our devices capabilities and not have to call it “jail breaking”.
Congratulations to Apple for having the best disciples to parrot how awesome their phone, that has not changed significantly since 2007, is compared to ones they likely never even used, because at this point the only thing pushing it are cheerleaders, me too buyers still thinking it still the “cool” thing to have, and boasting about 100,000 “apps” few of which are anymore useful than your typical Windows freeware program.