Apple is doomed, doomed I tell you. This time for sure.
Posted on 03/07/2011 6:07:21 PM PST by Swordmaker
The Xoom is not a beta product. Companies don't release $800 beta products. In its desperation to imitate Apple, Motorola rushed a very inferior product to market. Companies are really desperate to imitate Apple.
I think you have to remember that when the iPad first came out in April 2010, people noted at once it felt like an iPod touch writ large, complete with the limitations of the version of iOS at the time (3.2 I believe). The iPad didn't really start to get useful until iOS 4.2.1 became available in November 2010.
Everyone I talked to who bought the iPad during its first month of release had this to say about it: "I love it". And I talked to quite a few. In fact I talked to everyone I saw with one.
There are persistent rumors that Apple may preview iOS 5.0 very soon
Apple was the first to market and are way ahead of the others. It will remain that way for some time to come as companies rush in desperation to imitate Apple.
I hear that the Droid OS was written by a team headed up by Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin.
So it has no heart and no mercy?
Ducking and hiding now...
Apple is doomed, doomed I tell you. This time for sure.
That’s because he was typing on a Windows computer.
It was a joke, friend.
You need to use the html joke close tag [/j]. ;-)
I don’t know any of the tags.
We need smilies. The world does not smile enough.
We need hearts. The world does not love enough.
We need money. My parents have cut my allowance.
1) When I first tried out the original iPad in May 2010, while I liked the bigger display it still felt like playing with a "writ large" version of an iPod touch. It wasn't until iOS 4.2.1 became available that the iPad finally lived up to its promises, especially the ability to safely run more than one app at a time.
2) As for iOS 5.0 (which we may see a developer beta probably as early as April 2011), from the rumors I've read they cleaned up the interface and also made it easier to use. I really do like to see Apple offer some improvements on the iOS interface to keep it ahead of the latest Android version.
Yes, Apple is always working on improving their products. Apple revolutionized the way people buy and listen to music. They completely changed the smart phone market, and now everyone is imitating the iPhone. They produced the first successful mobile tablet device, and again everyone is going to be imitating them, though no one else is yet producing any significant sales of their promised products.
Apple has created a powerful and easy to use program development environment with Xcode and the Cocoa frameworks. The new Xcode 4 has reached the Gold Master stage and it's amazing. Not only has Apple satisfied their programmers, but they will attract many more with this beautifully designed integrated development environment. They now have the fastest and most efficient compiler for the C family of languages in the business with the clang processor and LLVM compiler.
Apple will be releasing the iOS 4.3 software update this week. And I look forward to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion which will be released later this year. Sales of Macs continue to increase, and Macs are extremely popular among programmers and web developers.
Just commenting that the iPhone was the only phone I've ever had that required me to make an appointment and drive way out of my way to visit an understaffed store so I would have to browse, waiting for them to call me. I will not miss it.
(Is there even a store for you to "visit" now?)
Absolutely. The AT&T store a couple of miles away, where I bought the phone, can deal with service for anything but Apple. It's convenient. They're fast. It's part of the reason I dumped the iPhone.
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