[Swordmaker]

Wow! What a load of ignorant of history FUD... PING!

Apple/Mac/iPhone/iPad Ping!

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[humblegunner]

Why iAds will fail

I hear they're working on a vaccine.

[dangerdoc]

bump for later reading.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

almost every conceivable application you could want is available.

Not so sure that is a great statement. I know we software developers are a smart lot, but somehow, I think there may be some more apps coming...just a guess.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

" People buy IT equipment (laptop, PC, or mobile) on the basis of the applications they can run on it."

Or because, like the raven, they're attracted to shiny objects.

[TXnMA]

Brandt Dainow: "Everybody, lookee at me! I'm so much smarter than Steve Jobs that he's just a bilionaire and the world's most innovative CEO -- and I'm a jenyoowine "consultant" who has written a whole article full of worthless opinions and FUD!"

[WriteOn]

I kind of tagged along until he unloaded on Objective-C. Objective-C isn’t any worse than Java and is only ineffective for an ad agency who doesn’t want to pay a developer. Graphic artists and Flash hacks are cheaper. All the thousands of apps on the iPhone/iPad/iPod are written in Objective-C.

He’s wrong also wrong about Jobs’ goals. Jobs like Google look to unseat Microsoft and aids Google in HTML5 support. But the Google partnership is tenuous because Jobs wants their ads business too.

HTML 5 is a lot more stable than is suggested, too.

Fun times.

[SunkenCiv]

HTML5
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html

[SunkenCiv]

I'll leave the final word to Ian Wolfman:

"I'm not convinced iPhone/iPad has a long-term future. It's a closed system. It's attractive now because the U.S. lacks an open alternative, but it's inevitable that one will develop."

HTML5 *is* an open alternative, but this author rejects it in favor of the proprietary Adobe Flash -- and in all other ways, a fanboy of proprietary MS products.

[SunkenCiv]

Macintosh now runs Microsoft Office because no one else was interested in providing a compatible office suite. Apple's restrictive policies over the Mac almost caused the death of the Apple Corporation, and it was only by opening the environment to its arch-enemy Microsoft that Apple was able to survive. When Steve Jobs announced MS Office for the Mac to a stunned audience in 1997, he looked very uncomfortable about it

I didn't have to look at the clip -- there were loud boos when Bill Gates' face came up, and Steve was pretty put out, and scolded the audience. Bill Gates had successfully exterminated (through control of the OS, through "cross-development" agreements which were mandatory, through acquisition, or by giving away a lesser but similar product) most competing software companies, and had settled a lawsuit with Apple.

MS-Excel was introduced on the Mac in 1985 -- one year after the Mac debuted, and two years BEFORE it was available in Windows.

Much earlier, Visicalc was the first popular spreadsheet program, was available on many platforms and OSes, and vanished in part due to Microsoft's Multiplan but mostly due to the OS-specific Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus is part of IBM now, and 1-2-3 was a major reason (along with DBase, remember that thing?) the IBM-PC and MS-DOS succeeded in the first place. Lotus also helped pioneer "look-and-feel" lawsuits.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

There is no end to the number of people who know better how to run Apple than Steve Jobs. Each new product and each new strategy is met with choruses of those predicting failure and saying, “This time Apple has done it! They have screwed the pooch.”

As well as I recall, Apple tried that strategy - operating without Jobs. They failed and he continued to succeed elsewhere. Yet, there are still those singing the same old song - Apple will fail!