Samsung is making better tablets, and their supply chain is rock solid. Android’s open system will eventually wreck iOS which is a repeat of the mistake that French engineer cum marketing idiot made when the Mac was the ‘next big thing’.
I noticed that Oracle is caving on the Cloud. Oracle was right to buck the cloud. That’s a stupid idea too.
The idea that someone would voluntarily hand either Apple or Google all of their contacts so that they can do anything they want with them is tragic and stupid. Only slightly stupider is spending hours a day on a Facebook account handing a 28 year old billionaire thousands of dollars worth of personal information on you and your family and friends for nothing so he can make billions more selling it to marketing departments all over the world.
John Sculley couldn’t save Apple either. Tim Cook won’t either. They have plenty of money, but Apple was a one man show. Apple’s coming out with a TV now. Breaking new ground?
I said Facebook was going down four years ago. I said five years ago that if Jobs ever died, Apple would eventually die with him.
While SaaS will most certainly survive as a business model, the cloud won’t - precisely because it’s a four-year old idea on how to get morons to volunteer their private information AND pay a monthly rental fee for the privelege of being exploited.
Defendant’s attorney: “You claim you had a reasonable expectation of privacy in using Google Apps.”
Plaintiff: “I did.”
Defendant’s attorney: “Yet you read and understood the license agreement and privacy policy.”
Plaintiff: “I did not.”
Defendant’s attorney: “Yet you checked this little box that said you did. . . . “
What the left admired about Jobs was the utter size of his balls in doing the things he did with such impunity.
Have you heard about, read about anywhere, or seen any sort of profile on any of the designers or engineers working at Apple? No Nathan Myrvhold analogs, no more Wozniaks after he left. It was all about Jobs.
“Samsung is making better tablets,”
That’s entirely arguable...Apple has many advantages including the Retina Display, lack of fragmentation, and software stack.
“and their supply chain is rock solid.”
That’s nice, but you can’t avoid the fact that Apple is now the 800 lb. gorilla in the room when it comes to buying power.
“Android’s open system will eventually wreck iOS”
So far it isn’t happening, iOS is thriving. Android fragmentation and security problems are looking like a big hurdle.
“which is a repeat of the mistake that French engineer cum marketing idiot made when the Mac was the ‘next big thing’.”
????? Please clarify.
“I noticed that Oracle is caving on the Cloud. Oracle was right to buck the cloud. That’s a stupid idea too.”
There’s nothing wrong with the cloud per se. A combination of local and remote storage gives redundancy and disaster-proofing. Encryption is your friend.
“The idea that someone would voluntarily hand either Apple or Google all of their contacts so that they can do anything they want with them is tragic and stupid.”
It would be if Apple was doing anything of the sort. Google, well...I guess I’m happy that Apple is severing those ties.
“John Sculley couldn’t save Apple either. Tim Cook won’t either. They have plenty of money, but Apple was a one man show. Apple’s coming out with a TV now. Breaking new ground?”
If you think the most valuable company in America at this point is dependent on one, or ten, individuals, I think you’re deluded. Apple has been hiring the best and the brightest for many years now. Jobs did give them some good ideas to carry them in the near term, however Apple seems to have internalized the right concepts to keep it going strong for a long time.
“I said five years ago that if Jobs ever died, Apple would eventually die with him.”
Who would have thought that Jobs would “ever” die? At any rate, I think that Apple will be fine.
“While SaaS will most certainly survive as a business model, the cloud won’t - precisely because it’s a four-year old idea on how to get morons to volunteer their private information AND pay a monthly rental fee for the privelege of being exploited.”
Let me think about this for a second...how much are the iCloud “rental fees”, and does Apple access any private information? Zero dollars, and no are the answers, you’re mistaken again. Shocking.
“Have you heard about, read about anywhere, or seen any sort of profile on any of the designers or engineers working at Apple? No Nathan Myrvhold analogs, no more Wozniaks after he left. It was all about Jobs.”
Nope, I guess you haven’t done your due diligence. Read about Jonathan Ives, he’s making $10 million a year as Apple’s chief design engineer. Also, as I said above, Apple has been hiring the best and brightest for some time. You’ll be hearing about them and their amazing innovations over the next few decades... :-)