It's a direct shot because Android & some other operating system have a similar tight integration?
I see the statement as saying Android doesn't have the same level of integration as all Apple devices will have. Android-powered laptops are available aren't they so they could say they could integrate between a phone, tablet, and laptop? Microsoft will say the Surface provides the integration in one computer. Of course Microsoft will say their servers (Sharepoint, gag me!) provide all the integration a "real" user needs. Apple devices will have so much more integration than anything Android can figure out or Microsoft can try and sell. This integration either happens automatically or with the minimum amount of touches or clicks, something Microsoft will never figure out. This is a huge shot at Android and Microsoft (forget about linux).
"A handoff feature makes it possible to start writing an e-mail on the iPhone and finish it on a nearby Mac, something Gmail users have been able to do for years."
That has got to be a joke. Handoff allows you to do ANYTHING on your Mac, then pick it up immediately on your phone. Saving a draft in gmail then bringing it back later is equivalent to working on a file in Numbers on a Mac, saving it, then opening the app on your iPhone. This kind of ignorance is like saying, back in 2007, "Apple released a phone that allows you to dial saved contacts, something that Nokia owners have been able to do for years."
It reminds me of the more annoying troll opinions along the lines of:
"Yeah but iOS doesn't have widgets, or replaceable keyboards or reply-in-place messages. So Android is better."
*iOS 8 is announced*
"Yeah, who cares? Android has had those features for years. So Android is better."
They probably just want to lower the stock price so they can buy them up. I think many fandroids don't realize that apple is adding feature parity so we can stay far away from android devices without missing a thing, and keep all of our beloved apple features. It's not playing catch up, it's just giving us the few extras that android has so we can continue using all of our awesome features!
That literally has to be one of the shittiest and stupidest articles I've ever read- I was close to being nauseous, just trying to wrap my head around the utter stupidity. How the **** do these people exist? I was gonna quote stuff but then I realize that almost every statetement is quote worthy. The entire premise is:
1. You can already use a patchwork of difference services, from different companies, with different accounts and credentials to roughly approximate what Apple is aiming to accomplish as an integrated and seamless experience, so why should Apple bother?
2. Why isn't Apple putting its efforts into making other platforms better and more attractive? Damn Apple for focusing on OSX/iOS and its pwn products, instead they should worry about those people that choose to use another platform and somehow make that other platform better.
3. Android 80% marketshare blab blah, why should devs develop for iOS first? (why don't you ask THEM, since thats exactly what they're doing, you fucking idiot)
His last quote sums up the sheer idiocy perfectly:
Quote:
This captivity may be a reason to resist the castle's charms: Given the slow pace of Apple's hardware innovation, it may soon be possible to assemble a better experience using apps and devices from various developers and manufacturers. There are more people working to that end outside the castle walls than Apple can ever hire. Being in the open field has its advantages.
So Apple should give up, since you can create a clusterfuck experience using various platforms and hardware that kinda have the same features as a single one. Brilliant analysis. I wont even comment on the "slow pace of hardware innovation" statement.
So Apple should give up, since you can create a clusterfuck experience using various platforms and hardware that kinda have the same features as a single one. Brilliant analysis. I wont even comment on the "slow pace of hardware innovation" statement.
Thank you.
Just. Fucking. Thank you.
Edit:
Quote: "...people who have always found programming daunting, such as artists..."
SUCH AS ARTISTS.
GREENGROCERS. BRICKLAYERS. ARTISTS. RANDOM GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO ARENT PROGRAMMERS.
Ok, that's enough. I don't know why that article is so aggravating. Its gotta be a joke and I'm just gonna pretend it doesn't exist. Before I go insane.
This probably uses the user's default search settings. What Apple is saying is "Google, you better watch your back" with a smile on their face and playing nice and fair.
Dear analyst. When has selling user data ever been part of Apple's business model? (Ans: never)
"Monetising" personal medical data is really easy for Apple. They are careful with their APIs and give their customers (the end user) the ability to tightly control how that data is used, and take 30% on sales of the new apps that will be launched to make use of it. They state quite clearly "we will not sell your medical records to anyone..." and lo, it shall come to pass that people who value their privacy shall buy iPhones.
Medical data is always going to be shared. How else would we know that there's currently a measles outbreak in the US?
Here are some quotes from the this opinion piece that are worth debunking:
It is doing the same to developers, who might reasonably be wondering whether they should still release iOS apps first if 80 percent of smartphones sold run Android.
There is a very big BUT to this statement. Only 9% of devices of that 80% runs the very latest OS. So yeah, it is worth writing apps for that measly 15% of the world's smartphones.
Given the slow pace of Apple's hardware innovation, it may soon be possible to assemble a better experience using apps and devices from various developers and manufacturers.
I bet he isn't talking about the A7 64 bit chip or the M7 co-processor. He may be talking about Samsung's gimmicky heart rate monitor however.
Anal guys will soon realize hammering blows are coming down to Google and their predictions:
Just to name some:
1. Extensions - apps collaborating in secure way. Where is now "closed and non extensible system"?
2. Integration with OS X - OS's are melting together like a finest belgian chocolate in your mouth... What will Shmoogle do? Make Chrome XX? Steal Windows? Android Desktop? Will they buy Acer and make crappy plastic computer like themselves?
3. Enterprise - I won't even bother...
4. Touch Kit API? Who with? How? Which device?
5. Spotlight - not better than Now, but quantum leap in way how Apple learned integrating services. Nextgen catches Now.
6. Swift - Productivity raised to unreachable level. Will make iOS apps even more profitable.
7. Larger screen device in Autumn - Samscrap already fired all its bullets last year. They will loose the only profitable segment. Soon.
A little off topic but am I the only one who finds it strange that Spotlight for OSX uses Bing and Spotlight for iOS 8 uses Google?
I wonder what the reason behind this is...
Even I was surprised to see Google on live event.
But I read on other blogs that - it was tested for the pre-event with Google. So, continued.
It also may have been Apple's way of (a) showing everyone that the user can set who they want to use for a search engine. (b) Keep Google and Microsoft uncertain of who Apple may favor when the software is released this Fall. (c) Apple seemed to use Bing when needing a smooth translation demo without cutting and pasting.
Apple may see Microsoft as less of a hardware competitor, now and down the road, and is moving the spotlight away from Google/Android. Additionally, MS, under new sane leadership, may be more willing to provide the hooks needed to work more seamlessly with Apple's OS. You may have noticed that Apple is accommodating Windows into the continuity solution. This is likely more to grab more business from enterprise users then it was to "be nice" to MS, but I'm sure MS appreciated the nod.
The new Apple software updates are going to be the catalyst for the fall hardware devices. Software may not be too sexy for nob- software developers, it does serve as a baseline for new exciting apps and devices. This time I think Wall Steeet gas realized this tenant. Also, there not not enough time to showcase both hardware and software in one event and it would have been immature as well
Google will regret stabbing Apple in the back, especially once Samsung breaks free of Android.
I hope Google already regrets their back stabbing. Android was supposed to steal the whole smartphone business away from Apple and drive apple back into the computer business. It failed. Chrome was designed to steal the laptop business from Apple and blunt Apple's market in that area. Both have failed and now Apple is taking back market share and showing strong leadership in software design that adds high value to consumers, small business, and enterprise customers alike.
If you paid close attention to the Spotlight demos you can see Apple is now able to make it possible for users to do serious searching without even using Google... By this Fall when the new hardware arrives, we could see Spotlight fully fleshed out to remove Google from the picture and, by extension, user's minds. THAT would be sweet justice!
Anal guys will soon realize hammering blows are coming down to Google and their predictions:
Just to name some:
1. Extensions - apps collaborating in secure way. Where is now "closed and non extensible system"?
2. Integration with OS X - OS's are melting together like a finest belgian chocolate in your mouth... What will Shmoogle do? Make Chrome XX? Steal Windows? Android Desktop? Will they buy Acer and make crappy plastic computer like themselves?
3. Enterprise - I won't even bother...
4. Touch Kit API? Who with? How? Which device?
5. Spotlight - not better than Now, but quantum leap in way how Apple learned integrating services. Nextgen catches Now.
6. Swift - Productivity raised to unreachable level. Will make iOS apps even more profitable.
7. Larger screen device in Autumn - Samscrap already fired all its bullets last year. They will loose the only profitable segment. Soon.
In short: Google, go sell some clicks, please...
yes. this actually reminds me of the "Mac-killer" Windows 95 launch back in the day, when MS co-opted many useful OS 7 UI elements it previously lacked (and Netscape's pioneering browser too) and used its "walled" enterprise PC lock-in (cross platform services/files did not yet exist) to push Apple and all others aside for the next 12 years. Now it's Apple's turn to do the same to Google (and Dropbox et al.) with iOS 8, centered on its ever growing, constantly improviing consumer-friendly "walled garden."
Android will continue to dominate the global cheap feature phone market for the foreseeable future, especially in the developing world. but more and more varieties will be regionalized non-Google rips and forks, so outside Google's ecosystem. and in any event that customer base is much harder to "monetize" significantly, because of its totally balkanized regional diversity and its very limited second/third world spending power.
Apple obviously aims at first world customers and their equivalents in the developing world. China being the #1 target of course. thanks to subsidized 2 year bundled hardware/service packages in the US, Apple may actually take control of a majority of the market here next year thanks to iOS 8. it likewise is #1 in Japan now, and iOS 8 will certainly reinforce that. Europe is much more of a challenge because there hardware and telco services are unbundled by law, plus very high taxes on hardware, making it an Android stronghold today (and the best hope for Windows/Nokia Phone). this also holds back widespread adoption of the Apple ecosystem and OS X computers in Europe. a big test for iOS 8 will be whether it finally enables Apple to break through that resistance and substantially increase its market share in Europe. if it does, then it really will be the "Android killer."
I hope Google already regrets their back stabbing. Android was supposed to steal the whole smartphone business away from Apple and drive apple back into the computer business. It failed. Chrome was designed to steal the laptop business from Apple and blunt Apple's market in that area. Both have failed and now Apple is taking back market share and showing strong leadership in software design that adds high value to consumers, small business, and enterprise customers alike.
If you paid close attention to the Spotlight demos you can see Apple is now able to make it possible for users to do serious searching without even using Google... By this Fall when the new hardware arrives, we could see Spotlight fully fleshed out to remove Google from the picture and, by extension, user's minds. THAT would be sweet justice!
Who's to say Apple wouldn't have made these moves anyway?
Google will regret stabbing Apple in the back, especially once Samsung breaks free of Android.
I saw a headline where Samsung released a Tizen galaxy phone at their developers conference in S.F. If it is successful, the breaking free will have begun.
If you paid close attention to the Spotlight demos you can see Apple is now able to make it possible for users to do serious searching without even using Google... By this Fall when the new hardware arrives, we could see Spotlight fully fleshed out to remove Google from the picture and, by extension, user's minds. THAT would be sweet justice!
My biggest question is why Apple is dragging its feet on launching its own search engine. Do they really want to be at the whims of others in this critical service? Launch iSeek (or whatever), make it completely ad free, completely private and non-tracking, and sell more hardware that way.
Would you rather have a Google phone that tracks every move you make or would you rather have an iPhone that lets you search the web without a single ad or privacy concern?
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It's a direct shot because Android & some other operating system have a similar tight integration?
I see the statement as saying Android doesn't have the same level of integration as all Apple devices will have. Android-powered laptops are available aren't they so they could say they could integrate between a phone, tablet, and laptop? Microsoft will say the Surface provides the integration in one computer. Of course Microsoft will say their servers (Sharepoint, gag me!) provide all the integration a "real" user needs. Apple devices will have so much more integration than anything Android can figure out or Microsoft can try and sell. This integration either happens automatically or with the minimum amount of touches or clicks, something Microsoft will never figure out. This is a huge shot at Android and Microsoft (forget about linux).
"A handoff feature makes it possible to start writing an e-mail on the iPhone and finish it on a nearby Mac, something Gmail users have been able to do for years."
That has got to be a joke. Handoff allows you to do ANYTHING on your Mac, then pick it up immediately on your phone. Saving a draft in gmail then bringing it back later is equivalent to working on a file in Numbers on a Mac, saving it, then opening the app on your iPhone. This kind of ignorance is like saying, back in 2007, "Apple released a phone that allows you to dial saved contacts, something that Nokia owners have been able to do for years."
It reminds me of the more annoying troll opinions along the lines of:
"Yeah but iOS doesn't have widgets, or replaceable keyboards or reply-in-place messages. So Android is better."
*iOS 8 is announced*
"Yeah, who cares? Android has had those features for years. So Android is better."
WHAT. IS. GOING. ON.
It is now legal to libel Apple without recourse.
That’s what’s going on.
So according to Bloomberg Apple gives users Stockholm syndrome.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-03/apple-gives-customers-the-stockholm-syndrome?cmpid=yhoo
That literally has to be one of the shittiest and stupidest articles I've ever read- I was close to being nauseous, just trying to wrap my head around the utter stupidity. How the **** do these people exist? I was gonna quote stuff but then I realize that almost every statetement is quote worthy. The entire premise is:
1. You can already use a patchwork of difference services, from different companies, with different accounts and credentials to roughly approximate what Apple is aiming to accomplish as an integrated and seamless experience, so why should Apple bother?
2. Why isn't Apple putting its efforts into making other platforms better and more attractive? Damn Apple for focusing on OSX/iOS and its pwn products, instead they should worry about those people that choose to use another platform and somehow make that other platform better.
3. Android 80% marketshare blab blah, why should devs develop for iOS first? (why don't you ask THEM, since thats exactly what they're doing, you fucking idiot)
His last quote sums up the sheer idiocy perfectly:
So Apple should give up, since you can create a clusterfuck experience using various platforms and hardware that kinda have the same features as a single one. Brilliant analysis. I wont even comment on the "slow pace of hardware innovation" statement.
Thank you.
Just. Fucking. Thank you.
Edit:
Quote: "...people who have always found programming daunting, such as artists..."
SUCH AS ARTISTS.
GREENGROCERS. BRICKLAYERS. ARTISTS. RANDOM GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO ARENT PROGRAMMERS.
Ok, that's enough. I don't know why that article is so aggravating. Its gotta be a joke and I'm just gonna pretend it doesn't exist. Before I go insane.
This probably uses the user's default search settings. What Apple is saying is "Google, you better watch your back" with a smile on their face and playing nice and fair.
Thank you.
Just. Fucking. Thank you.
You're fucking welcome.
In all seriousness I wonder if people that use that kind of twisted logic actually have brain-damage, or are being paid. It must be one or the other.
Medical data is always going to be shared. How else would we know that there's currently a measles outbreak in the US?
Google will regret stabbing Apple in the back, especially once Samsung breaks free of Android.
So according to Bloomberg Apple gives users Stockholm syndrome.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-03/apple-gives-customers-the-stockholm-syndrome?cmpid=yhoo
Here are some quotes from the this opinion piece that are worth debunking:
It is doing the same to developers, who might reasonably be wondering whether they should still release iOS apps first if 80 percent of smartphones sold run Android.
There is a very big BUT to this statement. Only 9% of devices of that 80% runs the very latest OS. So yeah, it is worth writing apps for that measly 15% of the world's smartphones.
Given the slow pace of Apple's hardware innovation, it may soon be possible to assemble a better experience using apps and devices from various developers and manufacturers.
I bet he isn't talking about the A7 64 bit chip or the M7 co-processor. He may be talking about Samsung's gimmicky heart rate monitor however.
Anal guys will soon realize hammering blows are coming down to Google and their predictions:
Just to name some:
1. Extensions - apps collaborating in secure way. Where is now "closed and non extensible system"?
2. Integration with OS X - OS's are melting together like a finest belgian chocolate in your mouth... What will Shmoogle do? Make Chrome XX? Steal Windows? Android Desktop? Will they buy Acer and make crappy plastic computer like themselves?
3. Enterprise - I won't even bother...
4. Touch Kit API? Who with? How? Which device?
5. Spotlight - not better than Now, but quantum leap in way how Apple learned integrating services. Nextgen catches Now.
6. Swift - Productivity raised to unreachable level. Will make iOS apps even more profitable.
7. Larger screen device in Autumn - Samscrap already fired all its bullets last year. They will loose the only profitable segment. Soon.
In short: Google, go sell some clicks, please...
It also may have been Apple's way of (a) showing everyone that the user can set who they want to use for a search engine. (b) Keep Google and Microsoft uncertain of who Apple may favor when the software is released this Fall. (c) Apple seemed to use Bing when needing a smooth translation demo without cutting and pasting.
Apple may see Microsoft as less of a hardware competitor, now and down the road, and is moving the spotlight away from Google/Android. Additionally, MS, under new sane leadership, may be more willing to provide the hooks needed to work more seamlessly with Apple's OS. You may have noticed that Apple is accommodating Windows into the continuity solution. This is likely more to grab more business from enterprise users then it was to "be nice" to MS, but I'm sure MS appreciated the nod.
I hope Google already regrets their back stabbing. Android was supposed to steal the whole smartphone business away from Apple and drive apple back into the computer business. It failed. Chrome was designed to steal the laptop business from Apple and blunt Apple's market in that area. Both have failed and now Apple is taking back market share and showing strong leadership in software design that adds high value to consumers, small business, and enterprise customers alike.
If you paid close attention to the Spotlight demos you can see Apple is now able to make it possible for users to do serious searching without even using Google... By this Fall when the new hardware arrives, we could see Spotlight fully fleshed out to remove Google from the picture and, by extension, user's minds. THAT would be sweet justice!
Anal guys will soon realize hammering blows are coming down to Google and their predictions:
Just to name some:
1. Extensions - apps collaborating in secure way. Where is now "closed and non extensible system"?
2. Integration with OS X - OS's are melting together like a finest belgian chocolate in your mouth... What will Shmoogle do? Make Chrome XX? Steal Windows? Android Desktop? Will they buy Acer and make crappy plastic computer like themselves?
3. Enterprise - I won't even bother...
4. Touch Kit API? Who with? How? Which device?
5. Spotlight - not better than Now, but quantum leap in way how Apple learned integrating services. Nextgen catches Now.
6. Swift - Productivity raised to unreachable level. Will make iOS apps even more profitable.
7. Larger screen device in Autumn - Samscrap already fired all its bullets last year. They will loose the only profitable segment. Soon.
In short: Google, go sell some clicks, please...
yes. this actually reminds me of the "Mac-killer" Windows 95 launch back in the day, when MS co-opted many useful OS 7 UI elements it previously lacked (and Netscape's pioneering browser too) and used its "walled" enterprise PC lock-in (cross platform services/files did not yet exist) to push Apple and all others aside for the next 12 years. Now it's Apple's turn to do the same to Google (and Dropbox et al.) with iOS 8, centered on its ever growing, constantly improviing consumer-friendly "walled garden."
Android will continue to dominate the global cheap feature phone market for the foreseeable future, especially in the developing world. but more and more varieties will be regionalized non-Google rips and forks, so outside Google's ecosystem. and in any event that customer base is much harder to "monetize" significantly, because of its totally balkanized regional diversity and its very limited second/third world spending power.
Apple obviously aims at first world customers and their equivalents in the developing world. China being the #1 target of course. thanks to subsidized 2 year bundled hardware/service packages in the US, Apple may actually take control of a majority of the market here next year thanks to iOS 8. it likewise is #1 in Japan now, and iOS 8 will certainly reinforce that. Europe is much more of a challenge because there hardware and telco services are unbundled by law, plus very high taxes on hardware, making it an Android stronghold today (and the best hope for Windows/Nokia Phone). this also holds back widespread adoption of the Apple ecosystem and OS X computers in Europe. a big test for iOS 8 will be whether it finally enables Apple to break through that resistance and substantially increase its market share in Europe. if it does, then it really will be the "Android killer."
Who's to say Apple wouldn't have made these moves anyway?
I saw a headline where Samsung released a Tizen galaxy phone at their developers conference in S.F. If it is successful, the breaking free will have begun.
If you paid close attention to the Spotlight demos you can see Apple is now able to make it possible for users to do serious searching without even using Google... By this Fall when the new hardware arrives, we could see Spotlight fully fleshed out to remove Google from the picture and, by extension, user's minds. THAT would be sweet justice!
My biggest question is why Apple is dragging its feet on launching its own search engine. Do they really want to be at the whims of others in this critical service? Launch iSeek (or whatever), make it completely ad free, completely private and non-tracking, and sell more hardware that way.
Would you rather have a Google phone that tracks every move you make or would you rather have an iPhone that lets you search the web without a single ad or privacy concern?
Seems like a compelling sales pitch.
My biggest question is why Apple is dragging its feet on launching its own search engine.
All in good time. Even Samsung believes Google's days are numbered (remember their "post-Android" comments).