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There is really nothing Cook said that screams TV **set**. My take all along is that this is a set-top box, and it's all predicated on deals with the cable guys and the content guys. That's where the subsidy lies, that's where the margin lies, and…
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If one takes what Cue said at face value, it suggests little or noting about Apple ever building a TV set. The reference was to "television user interface," which sounds more like set-top box, which already has a jack in every TV. Apple, aft…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sierrajeff I agree. The average user (buyer of 95% of the products) don't care what the operating system is. They care how the phone / tablet looks and behaves. So if QNX is going to be something truly revolutionary…
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I certainly don't wish ill will on RIM, as I was a long time Blackberry owner, and happy for it...until their devices got slow and buggy. Then, instead of innovating and recognizing seriously good competition in iPhone and iPad, they combined ig…
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What I love about this in concept is that for the longest time, companies like Cisco and Microsoft would tout how they use their own technologies (i.e., eat their own dog food) to achieve all sorts of unfair advantages in the areas of innovation, ag…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Good read, Mark! There are some interesting possibilities here. Apple need not charge for the license -- rather, they could just source the SOC/POP -- currently the A4 CPU. As these are curren…
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My thesis on this rumor is that it's the beginning of an Apple Inside strategy, whereby Apple licenses the skin, bones and brain of Apple TV to TV set makers as part of their ubiquity play in the living room. Why? The alternative for Apple is bu…
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None of these hardware OEM folks seem to get that without compelling software apps, it's just another web browsing device. That's fine, but it's still the proverbial case of bringing a knife to a gun fight.
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If interested in some of the application scenarios, I wrote a post last year envisioning just such a direction for the iPhone: 3D Glasses: Virtual Reality, Meet the iPhone http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/iph...l-reality.html Excerpt: Framing…
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You can tell that the piece is created by people that either don't use iPhone/iPod Touch or came at it from a "universal format" perspective. Why do I say that? Well, one of the core differentiators is the physics of an iPhone/iPod Touch (and …
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On some level, this is unsurprising. How many orchestrated product releases has Google gotten right (recent "successes" = Wave, Buzz)? Similarly, where is the culture that takes a promising product concept and iterates it to deliver a compelling us…
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[QUOTE=theobold;1591295]Quote: Originally Posted by hypermark Thanks, though, I would say that in fairness to Google, one of the first Verizon phones using Android has Bing as the default search engine, which speaks to the degree of heavy-handedn…
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Quote: Originally Posted by swinge GREAT post and article Mark, thank you!! Also interesting, I just took a peak at Android Market Place: http://www.android.com/market/terms/...nt-policy.html It really ISN'T any more open than Apple...Wha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mbsmd True, but same goes for Apple. Even more so because Apple has a public perception of slick, polished products - Apple can lose that if they put out (closed, sanitized, sterilized) crap. Apple gets bad press and t…
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Personally, the tact of "our sh-t doesn't smell, but yours stinks" is a dangerous one for Google, if for no other reason than the fact that Google really isn't that much more open than Apple. After all, Google isn't providing open source to core…
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The way to look at these numbers are as an affirmation for the platform in general; namely, that it keeps evolving and the iPad doesn't represent a disruptive fork in eyes of developers. That said, until developers actually get their hands on i…
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Personally, I agree with Munster that this will slow burn in 2010, then take off in 2011. The primary area where the Needham guy is missing the bigger picture (in my opinion) is that iPad is all about "It's the Platform, Stupid," and the platform h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Agree somewhat with the first part, not at all with the second. Apple could not possibly spend any substantial fraction of $40 billion for R&D. It is simply inconceivable. Consider also that at the curr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aaarrrgggh But, as a shareholder, would you prefer that to be a cash transaction, leveraged, or dilutional. Using that example (with an understanding that it is just that), I would think they have passed their prime i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by justflybob I am not disagreeing with you, but when you say "how Apple historically rolled" it made me think of a really historical answer. A: Probably their own, and most definitely NOT in the garage of Steve's pare…