“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.]