“The iconic Apple iPhone will either not exist or occupy a very small niche satisfying the needs of committed Mac fans around five years from now, predicts Kaspersky,” Hattersley reports. “The founder of Kaspersky Lab says that of the five main mobile platforms currently in existence, the only two guaranteed to last beyond the next five years are Android and Symbian. Open-source platforms will outlast closed systems such as the iPhone OS, BlackBerry OS and Windows Mobile, believes Kaspersky. To survive, the closed systems need to change their approach and get rid of their restrictions for developers, he says.”
MacDailyNews Take: Or, exclaimed the snake oil salesman, I’ll never be able to run my protection racket!
Hattersley reports, “If Apple doesn’t change its approach, the iPhone will become a niche model for fans of Apple, but it will not be a mass market product, says Kaspersky.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Our take is our headline. And, Eugene Kaspersky is a transparent, self-serving, disingenuous leech who seems to consider tech users to be gullible fools. Wrong again, Eugene.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “The_Wzrd” for the heads up.]
LOL….. Smoking the crack pipe again?
The lad’s mad and so’s his dad.
?????
Does this guy actually believe his own bullshit?
Or is he simply delusional?
two words come to mind… “Douche” and “Bag”
to be here in 5 years have any name other than
Kaspersky
in the future Kaspersky means ass hat
Someone should let Gene know that the iPhone is already a mass market product.
Smell the fear…
All you need to do is look at the PC market and realize that open source always dominates closed source alternatives in the end, right Eugene?
Hmm, no.
All you need to do is look at the game console market and realize that open source always dominates closed source alternatives in the end, right Eugene?
Hmm, no.
All you need to do is look at the mp3 player market and realize that open source always dominates closed source alternatives in the end, right Eugene?
Hmm, no.
Shoot ‘gene. I’m having trouble coming up with a good answer to such an obvious reality, maybe you could help.
What a Fisk’n Dope!
Un-fscking-believable! This is better than Ed Colligan yattering on about how PC guys aren’t just going to walk in and show them how to make a phone.
@MDN – better iCal this puppy so we can laugh at such gobsmacking idiocy five years from now.
=:~)
Because I cannot sell my security products on the iPhone platform due to its walled-garden security, I prefer the Android and Symbian platforms because they are open to attacks from malwares and trojan horses. It’s a goldmine for developers like me to sell my crappy security products to those poor Android sods.
So, did he mean that those systems would become obsolete, or that the need for his security software would become obsolete?
There is a good chance the iPhone won’t be around in five years.
But that is only because people will be using the iStarTrekCommunicator, which Apple would release to kill the iPhone.
80+ million iPhone OS devices and it’s a niche product? This guy’s an idiot!
The real problem is, that Windows is getting better (albeit, only slightly better) at dealing with the virus and malware problem. MS is giving away its protection products, making the market for the other guys a bit smaller.
Then again, the best way to draw attention to yourself is to make an outlandish statement, good or bad, about Apple. Nobody cares what the statement is, just that it is about Apple…Maybe Apple should charge for using their name.
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