“In his January 9 keynote address before the Macworld Expo crowd in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs offered what has become an annual lesson in user values in technology design,” David Morgenstern writes for eWeek. “But why do so few in the industry seem to be taking the course?”
Morgenstern writes, “That is the great mystery. Often it’s easy to dismiss the power of integration, whether it’s hardware and software or software and services. Or with Apple’s iPhone, something of all three.”
“The device rang my bell in the cool department. With the full browser implementation, it’s almost like a tablet PC but smaller and with telephony. As Jobs said, most smart phones aren’t very smart. The iPhone’s IQ must be off the scale,” Morgenstern writes.
Morgenstern writes, “They must be crying in Nokia-ville and other telephony towns today. Apple’s team in Cupertino has stopped the market with this product.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s not a complex formula, but it’s obviously very difficult to concoct: Apple is a group of very smart, talented people who are paying fanatical attention to detail, being driven by a visionary, charismatic leader.
As we said yesterday, Apple’s competitors should be embarrassed – their products look dated and amateurish next to Apple’s iPhone – which looks like it slipped off the side of the saucer and was mistakenly left behind by alien visitors. Apple’s so-called competitors have been leapfrogged by a wide margin. They should be crying.
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I’ve been saying for years that the power of Apple is OSX. it made the iPhone possible.
Apple = Innovate
Where would you like to go?
Apple = Brilliant
CNET has already given a 7.1 score. What a bunch of blow-hards. I simply can not believe this kinds of crap. What wait, there sentence states “Our reviewers gives you first impressions and expert guidance.”
Ill faited guidance at best
http://reviews.cnet.com/Apple_iPhone/4505-6452_7-32180293.html?tag=bubbl_1
Correction:
User Opinions rating the device before it is even available.
And over at Dell, Sony, HP and, most of all MSoft, they are all giving each other High Fives that Steve has left the computer business.
For Schiller to come out and reassure us otherwise is PROOF POSITIVE that Apple’s exit from the computer hardware and software business is a done deal!
Beware February 5th. God told me, “it all starts on February 5th.” And it wasn’t good.
It is pretty simple why most companies do no follow this formula: they do not give even the tiniest little rat’s ass about the consumer, other than determining how much they are willing to pay. Most companies only worry about how a feature can make them money. Sure, Apple is all about money, too. However, they realize that by designing and producing hardware n software combos that give consumers what they want, they will make money. Apple spends time thinking about why to add features and therefore understands how to implement them. Other companies tack on an FM tuner and call it value.
Ugh, C/net is filled with dipsh*ts. I saw one post that it’s too heavy. WTF?
C/net gets a 2.1 “Cow flop” rating.
Oh Yeah, and This Too – you just go ahead and go back to your looney room and rock yourself back and forth in your delusion.
Meanwhile, the rest of us in the real world will be welcoming millions of new Mac users because for all the talk of how the iPod would destroy the Mac business and now all the talk now of how the iPhone will destroy the Mac (again), quite the opposite seems to be happening.
FYI, Apple sold more than 6 million Macs in 2006, which is something like 3 million more than they sold in 2001 when the iPod first came out.
Fortunately for Apple, it’s competitors and detractors have an IQ level where they constantly misinterpret things like the name change, where somehow only a company named “Apple Computers, Inc.” can make and sell Macs whle a company named “Apple, Inc” cannot make and sell Macs. To Apple, it must seem like watching a bunch of cows lining up single file to the slaughter house – cows who think they are about to get a nice treat because why else would there be a line?
The Mac is back, baby, and it’s back bigger than ever. Apple’s on course to sell 8-9 million Macs this year, and now we essentially have a Newtonized version of Mac OS X in the iPhone.
I live in Nokia, Finland. I don’t see anyone crying, or maybe stock owners.
That thing looks easy, 499$ is just little too much for me.
iPhone nano please.
The Mac accounts for what, 60% of Apple’s revenue?? And they are getting rid of it?
………right.
Can you imagine what would happen to the share price if they threw away the profit that the Mac brings in.
Anyone who thinks they are leaving the computer business is a straight-up moron.
Nobody else would even consider spending 30 months designing a phone, let alone actually take the time to do it.
This is why Apple is better.
God, CNET is lame. How can you review a product without USING it? It’s not even out yet. They haven’t tried it, or the software.
“It’s tough to truly evaluate the iPhone’s capability as a music and video player without some hands-on experience” yet, they proceed to do so.
“Journalism” at it’s finest.
MDNews Magic Word: “Pay” as in these two assclowns need to have their pay cut.
i surprised no one has commented on steve’s appearance.
he has added a few pounds and looked very healthy and energetic…..a big change from six month ago.
oh yes, the iPhone is excellent.
The reason no one else can get this is that Apple’s “formula” probably violates most Business School 101 principles:
– dependence on a charismatic CEO
– forcing partners to swear to secrecy and punishing them when they blab, and other onerous demands on partners
– dropping products on the market in “surprise!” announcements with minimal time for an “ecosystem” to be prepped
– vertical integration (making the hardware and software) instead of specialization
– basically ignoring the hype generated by competitors and working on their own schedule on what they think they can actually do better and sell a lot of
– design by inspiration and vision instead of committee and focus group
I dont think they are crying….I think they are shittin’ bricks.
“And over at Dell, Sony, HP and, most of all MSoft, they are all giving each other High Fives that Steve has left the computer business”
HAHAHHAAHHAHAH
You’re a moron.
So 200 patents went into the iPhone. How long before those patented technologies find their way into Macs? Remember the parts of 10.5 they couldn’t show us……..
Oh, right! Apple is getting out of the computer business! The iPhone marks the end of life as we know it. By February, they will have cancelled all their orders for new computers and will spend the rest of the year selling off inventory. Don’t you know that Apple really wants to get out of a growing market. I mean, the whole mindshare, X-serve corporate, embrace and extinguish plan was just so they could give up making computers? Why keep playing the game if you’re winning, right? Geez, you people sound so incredibly stupid.
Thanks Joell for noticing that. Where’s the big uproar that Steve looks fine? Oh wait, we were too busy staring at the iPhone
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MDN Magic Word ‘value’ – Apple stock was a good value when I bought at $17 (pre-split)
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As if Apple is going to use it’s ginormous retail stores just to sell iPods and iPhones . . . I don’t think the Mac is going anywhere you yahoos.
I am so sick of the whiny spastic crybabies that come out of the woodwork after every Apple event. Okay, so there were no Mac-related announcements at MacWorld. That must mean… THERE WILL BE NO NEW MACS THIS YEAR! APPLE IS CANCELLING ALL MACINTOSH DEVELOPMENT!! AAAaaaAAAaaaAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
Or could it possibly be that any such announcements would have been completely lost in the 90 minutes+ presentation of AppleTV and iPhone? Apple doesn’t bother “announcing” new Macs these days, unless it’s a completely new model. When the Mac mini gets Intel Core 2 Duo, I doubt Jobs will go on stage to announce it — there will just be a press release.
There were no iPod upgrades announced, either. I suppose they’re cancelling the iPod?
Although I think the iPhone is a great piece of innovation, and that it will be quite popular…I would imagine that the majority of the billion phones sold last year were used for basic things like calling and texting.
I would appreciate Apple eventually coming out with a version of the iPhone without all the bells and whistles. A simple design, with an effective and easy to use interface. Phone calls, texting, contacts…enough said.
I realize that integration may be the wave of the future, but there is something to be said for the idea of “too much one convenient package”.
Just my 2 cents.
That’s “too much IN one convenient package”.
Nokia Executive: “Uhhhh, how this phone doesn’t suck like all the rest? We’re doomed.”