“You don’t have to turn the dial too far in order to find somebody singing the death knell for Apple [AAPL] and here’s five reasons they’re singing those shanties,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld.
• Apple is losing to Android: Marketshare based on sales figures should be a big indicator of platform popularity. The ascendancy of Android tablets and smartphones suggests that there should be lots of people using those devices. They will be buying apps, browsing the Web and ads networks should be seeing heavy traffic from the dominant OS. Except that’s not what’s happening…
• Apple has no place in the enterprise: Apple’s position in the enterprise has always been weak, and the debut of Win 8 PCs and Surface tablets should surely have wiped away all Apple’s gains in the sector. Except this isn’t what happened.
• Apple is “too controlling”
• Apple has run out of ideas
• Apple isn’t focused on developing markets: It seems likely Apple will rue its lack of focus on developing markets, particularly China, a nation with which Apple’s main foe, Google, has such excellent relationships.
Much more in the full article here.
.. Ha. whatever.
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What a stupid little asshole
Reading. Try it!
If you’d actually bothered to read the article, you’d have (perhaps) realized that the author was being satirical. Is that egg on your face?
Case in point why headline manipulation is rife; seems like that’s as far as most people read and bloggers and journalists (for hire) know this…
And you people thought I was being silly for saying that the Idiocracy is upon us.
Don’t be like President Camacho, low-information voters: RTFA.
Leave it to First 2010, Then 2012 to try to bring politics into it.
Obviously written by a stupid little asshole, who saw the headline and thought that’s all that he needed.
Except it wasn’t. Clot.
It’s tongue and cheek. He’s being sarcastic.
Tongue and cheek? Is that like case and point?
Yada, yada, yada…
Didn’t bother reading it, did you?
No, they didn’t. I guess we can’t expect MDN readers to, you know… READ.
Nice to see someone exposing the myths and intentional confusion.
Nice to see someone who actually bothered to read the article. :))
…or even one of the complete segments above.
“Except that’s not what’s happening…” should have been a clue.
We’re busy. We have little time for such details, and prefer to spring like cobras at the slightest stimulus, unload the stored venom into a bare neck, then wait for the next fool to disturb our complacence.
And this guy actually gets paid to write this junk? Shouldn’t there be a legal suit put in place for defamation and for spreading FUD?
READ IT!!!
Idiot!
FTA: “Indeed, the analysts believe that by 2014, Apple will be as accepted by enterprise IT as Windows is today. That’s got to be another death knell for the company. It’s hard to see any Apple upside within this story.”
MDNers just don’t get it.
Wow !! Really ?!?!?! You actually have the balls to write something like this ????
It is amazing to see how far some will go to confuse people …
Install fear … That’s the name of the game …
I wonder how much $$$ behind this misleading article …
It’s amazing that you’ll post such a condemnation of an article you didn’t bother to read… typical MDNer.
Not typical MDNer, most likely a fan droid. Jony used to write for MacWorld UK.
Hi there,
I wrote this.
Please read it. The story *cough* is underneath the headline.
Also there’s lots of Android people who always make negative comments on Apple no matter what I write. I’d love to see you guys try to enlighten them.
I do hope you like it if you read it, or at least like some of it.
Hav a good day.
So you are the journalist that wrote it, and they let you write it. I wonder what your editor was on or how much your doggie back was on when he let that slipped onto the press.
Then you have the incredible gall to come here and make a few posts about your article, dang I can only imagine what kind of knots the panties of the hit whores would have if they knew about that.
Sir, there is no tongue in cheek humility about that piece, it drips and oozes with sarcasm. So much so that I suspect that some of the people who have posted comments here like “sponsored by Samsung and Wall Street” DID read the article.
If we were face to face right now I’d ask to shake your hand before I extended it. It’s refreshing to see someone write a piece like that.
Hi Jonny,
Thanks for the good article, taking a poke at the misinformation that circulates about Apple.
I’ve recently started a blog addressing online misinformation — which you can find by attaching .com to the name above — so the reaction to your post here is certainly food for thought.
re: the google search bots. Perhaps one day Duck Duck Go and the like will have enough numbers to be of some help. People could be moved to go to them for privacy and find themselves benefiting from more balanced searches, too.
Author is a fiction writer for Android publication printed at Samsung press.
Oh FFS – read the article rather than just the headline.
Read. The. Fucking. Article.
Jesus, the total lack of comprehension of so many halfwits on here is just mind-buggering.
I read it. Perhaps Jonny Evans can express that HIS tongue is pressed firmly into his cheek instead of just repeating bad press.
Hey — I think my tongue was so firmly pressed into the cheek I was close to sarcasm…
Anyway — perhaps you can all help me: There’s a few arguments the Android people always use, a few of which i touched on.
What I’d really like to write is kind of the ‘Apple bears counter-Android cheat sheet’…basically take each one of the Android cants and rebut them, point by point, a sort of cut out and keep guide to help face down the phandroid folk.
If anyone wants to help with this — as I think it would benefit from lots of input – please drop me a line via Twitter. You’ll find my twitter on that page.
Again, the story is under the headline in this one.
Peace
Jonny
You can safely take on the fandroids; but the serious danger is the decline of journalism. The misleading headlines, the sloppy research, the anti-bias bias, the absurd analogies, the blatant partisanship, the innocence of technology fundamentals, the planting of rumours, these are insulting and damage the public good; and all because readership is measured in hit counts. I understand that publications need to stay in business. But not like this.
Jonny Evans, you could add the info showing that the quotes for the “reasons” are pure BS and show that you are a real journalist instead of a hit whore.
At least YOU read MDN.
You need some basic reading comprehension training.
Yeah, I do [read MDN]. I’ve been reading it since the late 90’s. Always quality. [I also read MacSurfer, BTW, together they provide it all].
Jonny,
Great article! I had to really smile over the subtle sarcasm which many of our fellow MDN reader obviously missed. Perhaps MDN’s headline for this article could have been better?
readers
I wrote it because I’m becoming increasingly flabbergasted at the way headlines such as the one I use mysteriously fly to the top of google news, while more positive slants on Apple equally mysteriously sink without trace.
Tomorrow I’ll try a negative story with a pro Apple headline, and see how google news bots treat that.
Sometimes I worry. Not saying that I am uncertain of the objectivity of G news since the last change, just that I worry about how a firm which arguably also has control over the front page of the news agenda ensures it maintains objectivity in the choices its bots make.
Articles by Value Walk, Potential Trader, etc seem to hit AAPL’s page on Google Finance automatically. It’s comical because these sources are obviously clueless and inaccurate, behind the curve, and obviously use English as a second language. Their one “redeeming” quality is that they are invariably dubious, if not downright gloomy concerning Apple’s future. I wonder why they seem to float to the top, even though they make no sense and are poorly written. Actually, no, I don’t.
Certain paid Korean readers of MDN do not understand sarcasm.
I think this article will show how hey are NOT doomed:
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-really-lost-its-lead-in-the-80s-2012-12
Not directly, but anyone with 2 neurones can put 2 and 2 together.
I think MDN made a great point by not posting a “take” on this article, though it may not be one they are proud of.
Uhh, this article is sarcasm. Did anyone read his reasons?
1. It’s only a question of time (and the next Apple product upgrade) until those existing iPhones and iPads join their Android brethren in the old gadget drawer.
2. Apple’s position in the enterprise has always been weak, and the debut of Win 8 PCs and Surface tablets should surely have wiped away all Apple’s gains in the sector. Except this isn’t what happened.
3. Unhappy iTunes users are upset that they can’t pick up adult material or security-bug-ridden software via that service. They are displeased that some iTunes purchases won’t work on their chosen platforms.
I think that he meant to save the article in his drafts folder until April 1.
HEADLINE to grab hits.
But a misleading headline.
Article attempts to dispel the myths of why Apple is doomed but does it in such an off-handed way, that it can confuse the reader. Apple-haters will simply take the lines they like and report those and, as a consequence, the author’s actual message will be lost in ‘the mists of electrons’ past.
What … again?
People are so sick of the Apple bashing they don’t even read the story anymore just the headline.
mmmmmmm……Apple Bashing…….add some graham cracker crunch and some cinnamon….arrargrggagrgargagrgr
What a stupid article.
BTW, what is satire????
😉
Best article ever…..
WTF, more korean propaganda with the help Wall Street Journal. The only way Apple is doom is if somebody nukes Cupertino CA.
WTF, more idiotic racist BS from Nightfly.
Sometimes writing satire, puts egg on one’s own face.
You hang from a ledge, although linguistically you adhere to your beliefs, on the other hand you are opening yourself up to friendly fire, especially if no one is paying attention.
Apple is doomed again?
Can someone give me a specific time. I have a very busy week and need to get it into my calendar.
BTW- what happens after the doom comes? Will there be snacks?
Of course you didn’t read it, Chalk up another Idiot.
Seems to me that the article might have made its satire a bit more transparent. As it read for me, it just sounded like the average Apple hater idiot.
Perhaps he should study the works of the Macalope, and introduce some coffee-spitting lines.
Shame on ComputerWorld 👿 for blatant TechTardiness.
Seriously ComputerWorld? That’s responsible journalism? NO. 😛
Oh. Johnny Evans wrote it. *smirk*
Never mind.
You’re an IDIOT like the rest that didn’t bother to even read the full article.
It’s clear you didn’t read it as like the other fools that posted with worthless comments, In your Laziness like the rest of the idiots all you did was read the Headline and didn’t bother to go and read the Complete Article.
This Article, For all you STUPID BONEHEADS is Pro Apple, Evans is Making fun of all the Doom And Gloom others say about Apple, And it just takes a 6th grade level of reading comprehension to see what its all about.
To many people Jump to conclusions, Why can’t most users Comprehend, its alarming most of these Jump and post readers need to go back and get re-educated.
I really doubt that Stupid can be fixed! To much of it on the internet and it proves that you can never take what you read as truth unless you confirm and reconfirm over, Laziness wins out with Stupid every time as we see by the posts to the article that wasn’t read nor understood.
Oh Forgot to put the /S for those that cant understand.
Move on Now. 🙂
HAHAHAHA! Say hello to my stalker everyone. I think he just had an aneurism in public. I don’t think I need explain my added reply to myself as also being a form of humor, which my stalker did not get. He never gets the obvious. But he is so cute and cuddly! And he gives the best virtual s*x over the telephone. 😉
dear me evans
a lawyer knows the answer to a question before he/she asks it. maybe you should apply that thought to your verbalising prior to publishing it.
you guys are misinterpreting the guy. he’s a REALLY big apple fan (as big as john gruber). the whole article is supposed to be a satirical piece mocking the “analysts”.
It isn’t that they are “misinterpreting”, it’s that they’re NOT READING past the headline. This is what happens in a “soundbyte” culture.
An interesting exercise in selective information, leaving out as much as you put in. You could build a PHD thesis in psychology on this one article.
Hi Jonny,
Thanks for the good article, taking a poke at the misinformation that circulates about Apple.
I’ve recently started a blog addressing online misinformation — which you can find by attaching .com to the name above — so the reaction to your post here is certainly food for thought.
re: the google search bots. Perhaps one day Duck Duck Go and the like will have enough numbers to be of some help. People could be moved to go to them for privacy and find themselves benefiting from more balanced searches, too.
In the good ole’ days of yore, MDN used to do a great summary of an article. They hit the main points, clearly and concisely. That was a much appreciated service and function, since most of us don’t get paid to sit all day and scour the web for Apple news.
Now, except for the take, MDN isn’t worth much since most of their summaries are flame bait, saying basically someone somewhere said something about x…. click here to read the article.
The quotes and summaries often have little to do with the context and gist of the real article, and their altered and exaggerated do little to accurately represent the article
A beautiful article that pokes fun at all the FUD writers.. Well written and riddled with crazy sarcasm… Kudos.
Now for the ppl that jumped to conclusions about it: you’re as bad as the morons that speculate and drive the stock down in a manipulative manner
Nothing new here. Evans provides a tongue in cheek piece that is hardly satire, more of a light hearted send up, if you think it’s satire then you haven’t read much literature.
I can’t believe that someone could read the section provided by MDN and not comprehend the angle, however to misunderstand the whole article is scary.
As usual a lot of MDN readers shot from the hip, killed, no questions asked, and therefore are as guilty as the media they read (or have not in this case) and complain about.
Doomed……
But everyone must admit that each of the points in the article has a grain of truth, i.e. not totally off the wall. Apple’s health requires continued vigilance. Apple is not bulletproof in any of the areas named by the article.
Take for example, Apple’s refusal for 6 years to offer an anti-glare screen for desktop iMac and Cinema Display hardware. That is a decision to focus on consumers. Stuff the professional market. That’s fine while the consumers think Apple is cool, but people like MDM readers can turn on Apple like a pack of hyenas in an instant if things change. Apple needs to broaden its user base by catering to other segments, apart from the cool kids, and ensure that their business is aimed to be around for many decades to come – rather than just the decade when everyone thinks Apple is cool.
Remember – and you people seem to forget – there was a time when it was hip to have a Blackberry. Think, McFly, think. People who assume it can’t happen to Apple aren’t CEO material.
ha! first world “problems” are funny. I would like more jelly please…
What a lot of absolute BS. We could all think of hundreds of reasons Microsoft is doomed! How about terrible, buggy, insecure Windows that most of the developed world has had to endure for the past 25 years?