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Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 01:27 PM EDT |
I'm sorry the Steve Jobs died, he was in many ways brilliant and visionary. But
without him there is opportunity for Apple's culture to change and a likelihood
that they will not be able to maintain his sharp focus and vision. It will take
a while but his influence will fade over time.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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Authored by: mcinsand on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 02:00 PM EDT |
I cannot get over how the FOSS community is acting, now that more people are
actually getting a clue. This is the same, the exact same Apple as it has
always been. Whenever people complained about Apples strongarm, underhanded,
anticompetitive tactics, we were always told to ignore them, their actions don't
matter because they are a minor market share, and (basically) Apple does not
matter because Apple is not Microsoft. As I said some years ago here (and had
my message deleted for it), Apple has forgotten more about vendor lock-in than
Microsoft will ever learn. This also illustrates <b>the</b>
problems of ignoring bad behavior in small slices of the market: 1) small
problem market shares can become big problem market shares, and 2) the behavior
of companies like Apple helps to legitimize behaviors in a company like
Microsoft (It's really tough to punish one company for a given practice when
another has the green light.).
This is the same Apple that has never allowed user choice on software interface
or readily-available hardware component choices that the rest of us enjoy. This
is the same Apple that also had the retroactive downgrades in the 1990's that
turned a friend of mine into an Apple fan to an Apple hater. He was a dealer,
and he had ordered a number of Macs for his business. Apple implemented a
downgrade to its customers that affected ongoing purchases as well as future
purchases. So, if you sent your check in for a 330 MHz Mac, you were going to
get a 300 Mhz ... I can't remember the exact spec shifts, but this was the basic
idea. You may have already ordered Tier 1, but you would receive Tier 2. Those
that ordered Tier 2 would receive Tier 3, and so on. And, being Apple, there
was no business of even an apology note asking permission for the switch. It
was simply done. My friend told them they could forget the idea of continuing
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Authored by: jbb on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 02:01 PM EDT |
graph (from 2011) (53% vs. 15%)
August
2012:
Android races past Apple in smartphone market
share:
Google's Android surged to a whopping 68% share of
the global smartphone market last quarter. That's four times the 17% market
share held by Apple
This is not totally unrelated to the dirty
tactics being employed by Apple. Classic has-been death
spiral.
--- Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more
contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 02:42 PM EDT |
I think we have to be careful to not go throwing that 'M'
word around. In no
way does Apple have a "monopoly" on
tablets, of which there are plenty of
alternatives in the
market. Now Apple's tablets may be very popular, and they
may have a majority of sales, but that in no way constitutes
a
monopoly.
You go saying things like that and next we'll hear Google
"has a monopoly on search", when in fact, they most
certainly don't. Rather,
they are the most popular search
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 05:23 PM EDT |
... can we expect Chairs to start getting their pilots licenses in the Head
Office of Apple?
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 01:36 PM EDT |
Is there some "Old Microsoft", where they were bad, and a
"New Microsoft",
where they are good? I don't see any
evidence for that. I see them continue
with the same
mafioso, anti-competitive attacks against their competitors
as
ever.
Who is promoting this concept of the myth of there being
and "Old
Microsoft" and a "New Microsoft", anyhow? That is a
meme Microsoft shills have
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