“There is a meme afoot. Apple is evil. Its arrogant ways and dependence on the cult of personality are to be its demise. Developers are said to be unhappy. And, Apple Secrecy Doesn’t Scale,” Mark Sigal writes for O’Reilly Radar.
“Google-ification is the way, the RIGHT way,” Sigal writes. “The Apple Way can’t possibly persist ad infinitum.”
“You Apple fanboys; you just don’t get it. Ol’ Steve (Jobs) is fooling you again into buying his sugar water,” Sigal writes. “You’re just too dumb to realize it.”
Sigal writes, “But, you know what? It’s a crock of sh-t!”
Sigal writes, “In the here and now, Apple’s success is unparalleled, and the engine is humming better than ever on multiple vectors – products, margins, developers, profits and consumer engagement.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Vishnu” for the heads up.]
Amen, Sigal. Amen.
That’s exactly right.
I get so tired of that kool-aid crap… I’ve had people tell me to my face that people only buy macs because they are popular… How on earth does a product become popular in the first place? Maybe by making something that people want to buy?
Google doesn’t have the attention span and they don’t know how to help and foster developers. Android Apps will be mostly FreeTard Linux Apps and stripdown Linux Apps. Android without Goggles full attention and developer support will likely never challenge the iPhone seriously. It is going to stomp the Snot out of Windows Mobile. To the point that Ballmer will have Zune marks in his shorts.
Microsoft might even kill Window Mobile after HTC, Samsung, Toshiba, Motorola, and the other all go the Android and/or Symbian. After all paying a Microsoft Tax of $7 to $15 when your margin is only $20 to $35 is hard but by putting Android on the phone and double your Margin is a no brainer as the iPhone keeps squeezing the bottom line has it keeps expanding it’s user base at the expense of other phone markers.
@ DreamTheEndless
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
—Yogi Berra
I’ll tell you what’s a crock of shit – all this rubbish about iPhone app developers being unhappy. 65,000+ apps and about, what, five, six or seven developers crying about having their apps rejected. Get real. Most of them know what a good thing they’re onto. People are being turned into millionaires from work they’re doing in a back bedroom and we’re supposed to believe that, because there’s a few grumbles that the whole ecosystem is close to crumbling.
Bollocks! 99.99% of developers are more than happy with their deal with Apple and if that isn’t true then I’ll bare my ass in Macy’s window.
@Dirty Pierre le Punk
Actually, only 99.98% of iPhone developers are happy with their Apple deal. However, with only the incentive of seeing your bare ass in Macy’s window, I don’t think I’ll bother trying to prove that. ; )
Full article is mostly good reading. The part I’m not so sure about is the WHEN (Apple’s competition start to catch up) part. Most people who don’t like Apple tout the “openness” of Android and how Android will be on many different phones from many different brands on many different wireless providers. That’s a good thing? That is NOT an advantage from the developer’s point of view.
With iPhone development, one version of the app works on every iPhone and iPod touch ever sold. The app only has to be developed and tested against ONE standard. Apple has even created a development environment to make it more consistent and efficient.
With Android development, there are (or should be if it’s successful) dozens of different configurations. There is no one standard Android phone. The variations can be in processor, screen size and orientation, user input interface (keyboard, touchscreen, roller ball, etc.), RAM, storage space, battery life, and so on. The talk is that the first Android phone (the G1 that’s less than one year old) will not even be able to run the next release of Android. How can it be worthwhile to develop for such a fractured market? How does a lone developer even test his/her app against such diversity?
The answer (at least for me) is that they will not do it. At least not in great numbers. The only significant players (for all the non-iphones) will be the big developers, who will develop apps “on contract,” paid in advance by the wireless provider or handset maker. Small developers will stick with the platform that allows maximum exposure for their development and testing effort.
Dirty Pierre le Punk = Dirty derriere is pink?
;-(
I just had to install Silverlight so I could listen to my local sports radio station online.
I’m gonna’ go take a shower.
Imagine how the iPhone will sell once AT&T;gets its act together!
The competition is green with envy, as are the consumers who bought the competition’s products. In order to avoid looking like the schmucks they obviously are, they blame Apple. Just like four-year-olds. Nothing has changed in all these years.
the difference is Windows users get OK computers which are kinda frustrating to use, and then assume that Mac users are getting the same frustrating experience for 50% more.
Windows “users” are mostly businesses and banks anyway, so its fitting they don’t put any value on experience.
Spare a thought for the poor old English language..
meme
an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.
So a once precise and useful word is now reduced to a catch-all for ‘common opinion’ or ‘accepted knowledge’.
@Ken1w,
You got it. I am just not sure what drives some of the commentors. This whole Apple fanboy thing, I think its a Microsoft ploy to make Apple sound bad.
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I mean, people that hate a product that works great, cause they cannot do anything they want to with it…… And er, why cannot they do more…. cause they do not want to learn how??
OK, its late and I am rambling, but I just do not get these people. Its like a product has to be a VW, bulldozer, airplane and cost like a paper sheet plane. When you get that, you end up with Windows, in a world with out walls. LOL
Just a thouight ,
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$33,000,000,000 (and growing) bank account can’t be wrong.
Was about to go one direction on this
But after reading some of your comments – you all made me think of this in another light …
So if I may (and be allowed *some liberties* in changing a few words, smile)
Little conversation between 2 guys named Wyatt and George (may know them as Dennis and Jack)
“Man, all we represent to them is a Fruity Computer”
“Oh no. What you represent to them is freedom”
“Freedom is what it’s all about”
“Oh yeah, but talking about it and being it – two different things. Don’t tell anyone they’re not free, because they’ll get real busy talking out their ass to prove to you that they are. They’re going to talk to you about freedom, but when they see a free person it’s going to scare them. And it don’t make them running scared, it makes them dangerous.”
BC
@ Mike,
I’m with you. The experience defines the perception, which in turn is a person’s subjective reality. How can one know what they’re missing, if they’ve not had the chance to try? One can only hope..
Motorcycle riders can appreciate this analogy.
I ride a BMW and feel quite superior to the masses of Harley riders. However the Harley riders somehow think they have the better machine based on the fact that there are more of them.
If however, they would let themselves experience the BMW, they would surely see the difference and realize they have been fooling themselves all the while and they would all buy BMWs or other quality bikes.
If they did this, I would no longer feel superior. What I am saying, is I don’t want every Tom, Dick and Harry to use a Mac. Then nothing would be special about owning a Mac. Let the PC crowd continue in there blind stupor.
Well, it hasn’t happened yet to the iPod has it? I think Apple has learned a few things along the way. One absolute, it doesn’t do loss leaders.
Can’t say that about Dell or Microsoft, Asus, etc. Guess what, they will fall farther and farther behind Apple. As long as Apple keeps its prices REASONABLE, the value equation plays out very nicely indeed.
I am hoping that in the next generation, they will rediscover what I believe the previous generations (prior to boomers, and x-gen) knew, that Value is different from Cost.
google’s schmidt left because google with their android and future operating system are the only serious competition for apple. microsuck is definitely a dying whale.