Every Android fan I meet is a hard core PC user and Apple hater ... I am actually beginning to feel pity for these people. They simply wouldn't admit Apple can do anything good if their life depended on it. They simply repeat "Apple's walled garden will ensure its failure" over and over!
This.
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Meanwhile, the news today that about half of all iPad 2 purchases were first time buyers gave me a sense of the future.
and this too. Spot on!
That's what's hilarious about the Android arguments - they are almost always made by geeks, who, going forward are not what the next expansion of computing is about. My 70+ year old father who for the first time is using email, the web and, heaven help me - Facebook! - on his iPad are the future.
I don't think Android is going anywhere, nor do I wish it any ill will (or Windows, Linux or other technologies). But the days of Apple being a minority player are definitely over. Actually, they were never over - their influence over personal computing has always been there - even if indirectly. It's just that with iOS, they are really reaping the benefits of their technological and user focused leadership.
For Apple competitors that don't get this:
They really need to go back and understand it. This is Apple's biggest innovation. It's not just marketing, it really is a philosophy. Just like the App Store review process. Why do so many other companies have heartburn doing something similar? It might offend the developers! Really? Who exactly is the the real customer for these companies? The developers?
Such fundamental mis-focuses by pretty much all of Apple's competitors explains why they continue to totally miss the mark when competing with Apple.
The only company that was even reasonably close at positioning themselves to compete with Apple was HP with their acquisition of Palm and WebOS. But it's becoming more apparent that Mark Hurd was the driving force behind that, and without him at HP any more HP appears to be letting WebOS flounder in the bureaucracy of yet another large company.
I don't know of any other company that has the nimbleness or culture to directly compete with Apple. Maybe Oracle will buy HP in a few years and Hurd will get another chance
I think if anyone can make Mac OS X run on ARM for less expensive, low power notebooks it?s Apple. I also think if anyone can make the Motorola Atrix concept viable it?s Apple. They could even use the Mac OS UI to ARM and probably already have.
Hmm - a dock for your iPhone or iPad with a supplemental CPU... maybe when Thunderbolt matures. There's an interesting thought!
The only company that was even reasonably close at positioning themselves to compete with Apple was HP with their acquisition of Palm and WebOS. But it's becoming more apparent that Mark Hurd was the driving force behind that, and without him at HP any more HP appears to be letting WebOS flounder in the bureaucracy of yet another large company.
Every couple of years, HP questions themselves whether they should become another IBM-type of high-margin business in software and consulting.
You think that HP would care about their $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm if a couple of years down the road they have an opportunity to buy a big consulting firm for $10-15 billion.
Hmm - a dock for your iPhone or iPad with a supplemental CPU... maybe when Thunderbolt matures. There's an interesting thought!
I wasn?t even thinking of a supplemental CPU and/or GPU, but that?s certainly possible with Thunderbolt.
I was pretty much comparing Atom to the upcoming Cortex-A15 and the Imagination GPUs that should be out by then, then thinking about Darwin OS with both CocoaTouch and Aqua* UI on the same device and switching as you dis/connect it from the accessory device, like with the Atrix.
I can?t imagine anyone pulling a design like the Atrix besides Apple. I know it sounds fanboy-ish, but no one else has the experience with PC and mobile HW and SW, nor the OS and development foundations that are so closely related.
* Is it still called Aqua, or should I refer to it as Quartz Compositor or something else?
I can?t imagine anyone pulling a design like the Atrix besides Apple. I know it sounds fanboy-ish, but no one else has the experience with PC and mobile HW and SW, nor the OS and development foundations that are so closely related.
No argument there.
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* Is it still called Aqua, or should I refer to it as Quartz Compositor or something else?
Whatever it is, it's definitely not Aqua - try searching for Aqua on the Apple.com search engine
I think much like the amount of RAM in the iPad 2, it just isn't relevant so there is no mention of it. They do mention cocoa, my impression is Apple considers cocoa (and cocoa touch on iOS) more of a framework.
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Every Android fan I meet is a hard core PC user and Apple hater ... I am actually beginning to feel pity for these people. They simply wouldn't admit Apple can do anything good if their life depended on it. They simply repeat "Apple's walled garden will ensure its failure" over and over!
This.
Meanwhile, the news today that about half of all iPad 2 purchases were first time buyers gave me a sense of the future.
and this too. Spot on!
That's what's hilarious about the Android arguments - they are almost always made by geeks, who, going forward are not what the next expansion of computing is about. My 70+ year old father who for the first time is using email, the web and, heaven help me - Facebook! - on his iPad are the future.
I don't think Android is going anywhere, nor do I wish it any ill will (or Windows, Linux or other technologies). But the days of Apple being a minority player are definitely over. Actually, they were never over - their influence over personal computing has always been there - even if indirectly. It's just that with iOS, they are really reaping the benefits of their technological and user focused leadership.
For Apple competitors that don't get this:
They really need to go back and understand it. This is Apple's biggest innovation. It's not just marketing, it really is a philosophy. Just like the App Store review process. Why do so many other companies have heartburn doing something similar? It might offend the developers! Really? Who exactly is the the real customer for these companies? The developers?
Such fundamental mis-focuses by pretty much all of Apple's competitors explains why they continue to totally miss the mark when competing with Apple.
The only company that was even reasonably close at positioning themselves to compete with Apple was HP with their acquisition of Palm and WebOS. But it's becoming more apparent that Mark Hurd was the driving force behind that, and without him at HP any more HP appears to be letting WebOS flounder in the bureaucracy of yet another large company.
I don't know of any other company that has the nimbleness or culture to directly compete with Apple. Maybe Oracle will buy HP in a few years and Hurd will get another chance
I think if anyone can make Mac OS X run on ARM for less expensive, low power notebooks it?s Apple. I also think if anyone can make the Motorola Atrix concept viable it?s Apple. They could even use the Mac OS UI to ARM and probably already have.
Hmm - a dock for your iPhone or iPad with a supplemental CPU... maybe when Thunderbolt matures. There's an interesting thought!
The only company that was even reasonably close at positioning themselves to compete with Apple was HP with their acquisition of Palm and WebOS. But it's becoming more apparent that Mark Hurd was the driving force behind that, and without him at HP any more HP appears to be letting WebOS flounder in the bureaucracy of yet another large company.
Every couple of years, HP questions themselves whether they should become another IBM-type of high-margin business in software and consulting.
You think that HP would care about their $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm if a couple of years down the road they have an opportunity to buy a big consulting firm for $10-15 billion.
Hmm - a dock for your iPhone or iPad with a supplemental CPU... maybe when Thunderbolt matures. There's an interesting thought!
I wasn?t even thinking of a supplemental CPU and/or GPU, but that?s certainly possible with Thunderbolt.
I was pretty much comparing Atom to the upcoming Cortex-A15 and the Imagination GPUs that should be out by then, then thinking about Darwin OS with both CocoaTouch and Aqua* UI on the same device and switching as you dis/connect it from the accessory device, like with the Atrix.
I can?t imagine anyone pulling a design like the Atrix besides Apple. I know it sounds fanboy-ish, but no one else has the experience with PC and mobile HW and SW, nor the OS and development foundations that are so closely related.
* Is it still called Aqua, or should I refer to it as Quartz Compositor or something else?
I can?t imagine anyone pulling a design like the Atrix besides Apple. I know it sounds fanboy-ish, but no one else has the experience with PC and mobile HW and SW, nor the OS and development foundations that are so closely related.
No argument there.
* Is it still called Aqua, or should I refer to it as Quartz Compositor or something else?
Whatever it is, it's definitely not Aqua - try searching for Aqua on the Apple.com search engine
The overall interface isn't mentioned here either: http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/
I think much like the amount of RAM in the iPad 2, it just isn't relevant so there is no mention of it. They do mention cocoa, my impression is Apple considers cocoa (and cocoa touch on iOS) more of a framework.