[stripes1776]

The author's main point: Apple has much better integration of hardware and software than any other company in their field. Apple's dominance is just beginning.

[stripes1776]

Pinging Swordmaker.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Funny, the author didn’t mention that FaceTime is over WIFI only - it does not run on your 3G network.

On the other hand, Fring on Android runs on the 3G network. So you can use it anywhere, you don’t have to try to find a WIFI connection to have a video call...

I guess that’s ‘dominance’ though?

[RegulatorCountry]

Going all the way back to the Steve Wozniak early days working out of a garage, the guiding philosophy of Apple has been to build “the whole widget.” It’s what they do. The disastrous few years in the 90’s were the only example of straying from it, then Steve Jobs returned and set them back on track.

[Jeff Head]

I’ll tell you this. My wife and family got me an iPad for my birthday
, which was June 19th. I love the thing!

From my hospital bed, and now that I am in rehab (I have sitting and standing restrictions due to the massive reconstruct they did in my pelvic area) from my own bed or wheel chair at our apartment here in Houston Getting on the web, watching movies, listening to music, s,die shows of my pics, and even word processing ( (not to mention the many apps) .

I created the PDF and .doc files for my just published Proposal for Border Enforcement on the southern border. You can download those files here:

http://www.jeffhead.com/secure.pdf
http://www.jeffhead.com/secure.doc

I then created a web page to go with them:

http://www.jeffhead.vow/secureborder/

So, the iPad functions for me at about 85% of my laptop, and it is 1/2 inch thick and 1.5 lbs. Slick piece of technology. All touch controlled, when going back to my XPS laptop, I find myself trying to touch the screen to get things done and the have to revert to the mouse.

Don’t get me wrong. I love my laptop. High-end dual core processors, 4 gb RAM, dual nVidia graphics in SLI...but my 64gb iPad is very nice too and wins for portability when I do not have any heavy graphics or heavy processing needs,

Apple knows how to build a fine product.

[Cold Heat]

I have a prediction.

Apple dives like a dead duck.

They have surpassed Microsoft and are second to Exxon Mobile in market cap. Each company that achieves a dominant position will find it very hard to keep it and most of their sales recently were to customers who already had apple products and were upgrading as Mac-heads do. 70% were upgrades. 30% new.

This has been a trend and it has a ending. All the lawsuits and guns of the blogs and media will now turn their attention from the once underdog to the now behemoth marketer, and it won't be good attention.

Underneath it all, Apple is just a marketer. Their innovations are mostly copied from others and the new phone, the 4G, has virtually little benefit over the 3G. Most analysts are surprised at the lack of new to the new phone. The video chat is ridiculous. You can only chat with another I-phone and it has to be on a wi-fi and not the network. Other phones can do network and work with other phones with video chat. What good it it!

Now we find out they have fudged the signal strength indicator....wonder why? LOL....

I think the jig is about up.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

This is a horrible article that is really embarassing for TechCrunch. I don’t know why anyone would post it here. M.G.’s TC review of the iPhone 4 is far better and more worthy of comment than this tripe.

[CSI007]

So what? Tech crunch have always been a bunch of whores for Apple.

Facetime software is a joke compared to what Sprint has with the EVO. The EVO can call computers using skype, other phones running fring or qik and it can do it anywhere unlike the iPhone which can only do it on wifi....Pathetic.

[Swordmaker]

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[for-q-clinton]

Apple is very good is giving the “dumb” user what they want and if they want or need more Apple convinces them it’s not ready until Apple tells them it’s ready.

They do know how to market extremely well. The question is will people ever become comfortable taking a couple steps on their own or will they be happy to wait for Apple to do it for them.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Interesting article, thanks.

Note this part: "Perhaps the best example of this so far is FaceTime, Apple’s take on video-calling. FaceTime makes video-calling on the Android-based Sprint HTC EVO look silly, because the EVO awkwardly requires users to sign up and download a third-party app, then launch it every time they want to talk. Normal people simply won’t do this."

...I agree, and more than that, "normal" people won't much like what an EVO-using, Apple-hating friend of mine noticed about that third-party app, Qik... here, clipped without edit from an email from him: "Qik records and saves everything done in that form of chat ON THEIR WEB SITE permanently! What the hell is that all about!?? It also saves the chat session as a video file on the phone. Not only that, but if you don't scrounge around and find the privacy setting, anyone can log into the Qik site and watch you in real time -- or what was saved anytime thereafter."

Whoa.

[Doohickey]

One man’s “integration” is another man’s “antitrust”.