Interesting article. Thanks.
—Then he brought out the iPad. And even though it was really just a netbook without a keyboard, folks saw the result as magical and different—
I see it as a netbook without a keyboard. A friend, who is ALL APPLE bought one and he said it’s pretty much useless to him. It’s no more portable than his apple laptop and is not as user friendly (no keyboard), though one of our friends love his - mostly because he uses it for his young son to play games while dad’s trying to work.
Metro on a PC is going to be as popular as Vista.
A lot of what this guy says makes sense, and I confess I’ve never been an apple fan, but it looks like he hasn’t either. It is as though he’s using Jobs’ absence to pile onto what he already believed. Essensially, the article could be summarized in one sentenc:
“Apple products were always crap, supported solely by Jobs’ marketing genius, but now that he is gone, the curtain is removed and the company is doomed.”
From the first iPod (which kind of sucked) to the first iPhone (which really sucked as a phone), ...... the products they competed with were far worse.
He's telling me that Apple stuff sucks, it's just that everybody else sucks worse.
This article is not journalism. The author notes Mountain Lion only includes minimal changes, which is true, and Windows 8 includes major changes, which is also true. And from that, he concludes people love Windows 8 and people hate Mountain Lion. Where is the evidence?
The only article I read on Windows 8 took Microsoft to task for (once again) changing Windows’ user interface, and begging Microsoft to make the Metro interface an option, rather than the default, and begged Microsoft to adopt Apple’s model of $25 OS upgrades.
As for the iPad, I was a big skeptic. I waited until it had been out a year, and spoke with friends who had one. Only then did I buy one, and in short order, I was sold. My company has an annual CIO conference. The biggest change in the 2011 conference were the number of attendees who had iPads (in addition to laptops). All of the CIOs were using iPads as their primary business email device.
Where the PC encouraged complexity in application software, the iPad has forced simplicity back into software.
How dare this A-hole write something critical of Apple and give reasons for his opinion!
The rules of the internet is that Microsoft is bad and evil, Apple is good and perfect.
If the iPad had not come out, the PlayStation Vita would never have existed. Manufacturers were all gun-shy about tablets at the time. Apple proved the market really did exist. This whole article is nonsense.
I got an HP TouchPad for $99, and a wireless charger for it for only $30. It is incredible. WebOS runs circles around iOS and can multitask like mad. It has killer FB and Twitter apps and tons of games. Even with HP canceling it, I still want another one. At $200 or less, it makes sense. the iPad 2 Wifi at $500 makes utterly no sense at all.
Enderle is a complete moron. I’m no fan of Apple but the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is the worst OS I’ve ever used.
My staff and I have spent the last couple days alternately laughing and being terrified of what a POS it is. It’s worse than Vista.
And I had it running on a netbook next to my Transformer Prime, yesterday, and realized it’s actually Android ICS ported to a PC....literally. It looks like MS stole Google’s interface.
It’s going to be a disaster if they don’t start fixing it, immediately.
Windows 7 left OSX in the dust. If It weren’t for Apple’s hip gay urban core buyers, sales would plummet. iPad mania is pathetic, a fad, a testimony to marketing which is Apple’s only strong point
Windows 8 will widen the lead. Good ol American competition. Microsoft is a giant that has been woken up and will trounce Apple. Jobs died in time to miss this.