Like this is something to be optimistic about?
Apple controls that OS and it only runs on their phones!
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.
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.
Apple makes some nice products, but the company’s propensity for control and secrecy concerns me. Thank goodness they only have about 5% of the market. If they had the 95% that Microsoft had, their desire to control every aspect of what you do with your computer and how your do it would be frightening. Google wants to control all of our information. Apple wants to control what we do with our computers. Both have the propensity for evil.
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...