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Newsweek says the Mac is Dead!
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What silly nonsense. The Mac line certainly isn’t dead.
It is true that the majority of Apple’s revenue growth is coming from the iPhone and other “personal” devices, so I could envision an environment where the Mac is no longer what Apple is flogging to the industry press at every chance.
Completely wrong, all right.
The MacBook Pros just underwent a remarkable upgrade that included several new technologies resulting in class-leading performance and jaw-dropping battery life.
That’s not the sort of thing a major corporation would do for a dying product line.
Let’s face it, if the Mac and OS X had been the focus of WWDC, the headlines would be about how “Apple is rolling-over and giving up in the face of Android’s triumphant assault.” That would be bullshiite but folks like this troll at Newsweek specialize in that. Instead, Apple (which after all has multiple major events every year) chose WWDC to focus on its remarkable innovations in the field of mobile OSes. In particular, Apple’s insistence on the full user experience was very much on display. For example, the new iPhone 4 has a front-facing camera. Ho-hum, right?— some Android models have them too, right? Yes, but the critical point is: you can’t use them to do anything useful. The hardware exists but not compelling software to make video calling easy and worthwhile. That was what is so remarkable about FaceTime and the way it was presented, with that really wonderful video. It wasn’t about hardware. It’s about the experience, about the integration with its users’ lives. No one does that better than Apple. And behold: like tablet computers that existed but went nowhere, now Apple has done the same for video calling. A whole new medium, unfolding before your very eyes. No one does that better than Apple, too.
Similarly, in other matters it’s the rest of the world trying to catch up to Apple and still missing the mark. For example, consider the fact that a hundred million iPhones have been sold, and nearly a quarter million apps are available (many for free) in the App Store. Jobs went beyond those simple facts, adding an adjective that I’m sure Mr. Newsweek Troll would not have noticed: he described the App Store as “curated.” Now, what’s remarkable about that is that the apps you download from the App Store have been inspected and vetted and are signed for authenticity. Thus there is an end-to-end mechanism to ensure that the powerful computers we’re carrying around in our pockets remain secure. Compare this to Google’s copycat Android Marketplace, which has already been home to a trojan-horse app that set up a botnet involving more than 8,000 Android phones within a few days of its posting. Because no one’s minding the store there— Google doesn’t check for insecurities or bugs or anything else (even though it skims the same percentage of each paid app’s price for itself that Apple does).
Steve Jobs is a unique entrepreneur: he has built, revolutionized and reinvented multiple markets. Most entrepreneurs are lucky to succeed at building a single business. Sometimes they get to do two. But entire markets? In Jobs’ case they include personal computers, personal media, animated entertainment, personal computers (again), music distribution, smartphones, and now tablet computing. And as he’s matured as a businessman and as a person, he’s learned to balance and integrate all of these and keep the ball rolling for each of them, and he’s built such an effective team that he’s succeeded despite two near-death experiences and a half-year hiatus.
Happily for the world, his act is not over. Nor is the Mac’s.
I believe that "NewsWeak" is dead. They have been ignoring their readers for years.
I think I read that NewsMax had a bid in for them, which would save them, unless the iPad model somehow keeps them alive. If it were not for Doctor and Hospital waiting rooms, they probably would have been gone a long time ago.
This guy is a maroon!!!
He talked about iPads, and the App Store, and iBooks, and videogames. He talked about the new iPhone 4, with new video-chat software called FaceTime and a gyroscope that lets you shoot missiles into outer space and take pictures of Saturn or something. And he had lots and lots to say about his new mobile-phone operating system, which used to be called iPhone OS and now has changed its name to iOS 4.The next iteration seems to be obvious enough -- an iPad-like desktop model with 21" touchscreen (with larger sizes in the future) and (eventually) no mouse, no mouse at all.