“Usually Apple launches are all about new product, and the WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs and crew was no exception,” Steve Gillmor writes for TechCrunch.
“iOS 5, OS X Lion, and iCloud were the tech version of a triple play, mainlining the iPad into the Mac and virtualizing the two product lines via the Cloud,” Gillmor writes. “What this means for Apple’s competitors is being debated right now, particularly in Redmond and the GooglePlex. But The Company Formerly Known as Don’t Be Evil has its work cut out for it, with little room for error.”
“Notifications, iMessage, FaceTime, and Apple TV represent a formidable infrastructure play that could push out Skype and bleed the carriers dry of high margin SMS and voice services,” Gillmor writes. “Apple TV may seem like an outlier, but what happens when the only big hits like The Voice become online advertising and location-based auction vehicles for Twitter and notification-friendly interApps? Android will have to come off its phony open stance and interoperate, or be shut out of the new studio model that will emerge over a remarkably short period of time.”
Gillmor writes, “Where is Microsoft in all this? Investors and customers are asking the same questions. The House That Bill Built may be in worst shape than even the Ballmer pushers suggest.”
Full article, with more mangled Apple product names than we’ve seen in a while (we fixed them in our excerpts above), here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
“Open”, “Don’t Be Evil” are fool’s rearend. Whoever believe it is indescribable fool.
Google’s founders stressing “don’t be evil” in the earliest days after its founding was very telling (to me anyway). It’s like the person you meet on the street and the first words out of their mouth are “trust me”. Any person with a modicum of real-world experience knows NOT to trust that person. So why has it taken consumers 10+ years to realize Google’s true aspirations…
I would imagine Apple being in the same ring with Microsoft, Google and any number of Windows & Android hardware manufacturers.
So Apple delivers the uppercut…KAPOW! There goes Google flat on its back, Android neutered.
Apple then swings a left hook…WHAMMO! Knocks out the bald fat man & his Krusty the Clown company straight down to the canvas, out for the count. No more monkey boy dances with flying chairs. A sob can be heard at ringside from the millions of Windows fanboys.
Turning a shoulder Apple socks it to the hardware guys with a solid roundhouse…SPLAT! Like a fly hit by a fly swatter, they’re flattened against the floor with entrails showing, gutted by the iPad running iOS 5.
The ring announcer exclaims, “And…the winner…in the blue corner…is…the Cupertino Express!!”
As they say in the winner’s circle, “Black Mamba is the shitz brah!”
How many blackberry sufferers will finally give up when iOS 5 hits.
“Android will have to come off its phony open stance and interoperate…”
Wasn’t “open stance” what Larry Craig said he used when he was trying to “interoperate” in men’s rooms?
Android’s “open” nonsense is about the same thing as The Microsoft Myth of Choice™ except instead of having one crappy experience on different hardware, you can have multiple crappy experiences on different hardware.
So far a political Job’s, no new product yet, we are still waiting for an iPad with a USB port to load our photos and cd without iTunes as well as a good still camera?
Speak for yourself. I have no interest in a USB equipped iPad. You can get a USB adaptor for the rare times you need it. With iOS 5 you can pull your music from iCloud with no desktop or USB. Are you wanting the ability to plug a CD player into your iPad and rip directly into it? Better camera would be a plus, but I for one don’t intend to use a iPad for a camera, it is far too big to be appropriate, and cameras in most phones this days suit point-and-shoot purposes. With iOS 5 and iCloud photos shot on an iPhone are immediately available on your iPad… and your laptop…. and your desktop… and your TV… and your (spouses devices). USB in the iCloud world will be even less relevant than it is now.
you and who else waiting for dead tech to make it’s way to the iPad?
bet you are mad there is no flash support either…
the ONLY port that would even be somewhat smart is a SD slot.. but why?
Camera connection kit, done.
and as Spark said “USB in the iCloud world will be even less relevant than it is now.”
if you can’t understand that… all the smart pills in the world can’t help you.
As for iPod touch nothing also.
Not quite sure of the point you’re trying to make. If it’s, “As for the iPod touch, they didn’t announce anything.” Actually, they did, it’s called iOS5, and it runs on the iPod touch. If you’re talking about them not announcing any new iPod touch devices, they actually didn’t announce any new hardware, only software, so there’s no “also”. iPod hardware is generally announced in the fall, and will most likely make an appearance alongside the new iPhone announcements in the fall. Most likely Sept. That’s my guess anyway.
I think the term is “Game, set and match” 🙂
I should have sait I am an Apple follower since the 80, sometimes though it reminds me of a James Bond.
Microsalt, when talk like none, since iFud exists in Iceland too, when not enough part’s in Apple produce. EEE!
Apple isn’t going to the dominate the cloud because it has better ideas. It’s going to be because it has better intentions.
Three little letters — S D K. Apple learned a lot from its iOS SDK and found out that it’s kind of a selling point to have hundreds of thousands of applications.
Therefore, Apple is going to continue to make great hardware, seamless software — and then they are going to make it all kick ass by opening its cloud system to developers so they can do a lot of the dirty work in bringing about new and awesome ideas to the platform.
Instead of competing cloud services, there will be one robust cloud infrastructure there for Apple users and developers can compete on concept and execution, not on housing the whole widget.
Google won’t do this because they need to be the software developer to tie you into their ad based services. Microsoft doesn’t have the polish (and they don’t make money from hardware so they don’t have nearly the vested interest in making it all work.)
It’s going to be fun to watch this explode and be every bit as huge as the app store, and I don’t think anybody is really writing about this yet.
Is this guy a professional? I would guess that he does have an Internet connection and could do so e research before writing. Pitiful.