“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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He forgot to mention Chrome OS, which will debute in laptops, and how it will replace Android, or that in a year no one will be using Android since it is already fragmented beyond repair, and now that MS can force HTC and other to have to pay to licese it, it ain’t free and cheap no more.
I went to the original link, thinking that the Anti-apple losers would be cheering in the comments section. Although there are only a few comments, they echo the same sentiments here. In fact they are a bit more direct and less witty……
nice try kASSpersky….
Shouldn’t Kaspersky be Beleaguered?
more like if Apple keeps doing what they are doing Kaskersky will cease to exist since no one will have windows anymore
Apple’s next device: a real medical tricorder — to see what’s really ailing this fool.
We’ll just add it to this list…
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
– The Quarterly Review, England (March 1825)
The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it. . . . Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient.
– Dr. Alfred Velpeau (1839) French surgeon
Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.
– Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1838) Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College, London
The foolish idea of shooting at the moon is an example of the absurd length to which vicious specialization will carry scientists working in thought-tight compartments.
– A.W. Bickerton (1926) Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Canterbury College, New Zealand
[W]hen the Paris Exhibition closes electric light will close with it and no more be heard of.
– Erasmus Wilson (1878) Professor at Oxford University
Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.
– Editorial in the Boston Post (1865)
That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced.
– Scientific American, Jan. 2, 1909
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
– Lord Kelvin, ca. 1895, British mathematician and physicist
Radio has no future
– Lord Kelvin, ca. 1897.
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.
– Lee DeForest, 1926 (American radio pioneer)
There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
– Albert Einstein, 1932.
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons.
– Popular Mechanics, March 1949.
There is no need for any individual to have a computer in their home.
– Ken Olson, 1977, President, Digital Equipment Corp.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
– Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t lastout the year.
– The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.
But what … is it good for?
– Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
Read more: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-knowledge-how/45487-famous-predictions.html#ixzz0mUxp2Yq1
I used to run Kaspersky AV software on all my Windows installations on my Macs. It was a pretty good applications and I never had problems with it except it was so damn invasive since it was constantly asking for updates and always invalidating my pirated serial numbers. I dumped it last year for another AV application that rarely ever invalidated serial numbers. The software works just as well.
I don’t understand why these smaller companies come along and are always forecasting the death of Apple’s platforms. I know that no platform lives forever, but why is Apple always being singled out as on the verge of dying. There are plenty of open platforms that failed so I don’t think it has anything to do with open or closed. If the platform works well then it will survive.
In five years time Apple WILL be the mass market
Sorry Eugene, OSX has existed for 9 years without malware and is doing quite well thank you. We don’t need your snake oil in our products, GO AWAY!!!!!!
Stick with Windows!!!!
If Kaspersky doesn`t find a replacement revenue stream from dying windows, it will cease to exist in five years.