Dan_Dilger

wizard69 said:

lkrupp said:

davebarnes said:

I could tell who the author of this atricle was just by reading the title.
Maybe I need to spend less time in the "computer world".

So when you see an article that places Apple in a positive light, explaining why Apple is still around and still greatly influencing the digital marketplace you immediately assume it’s more fake news from the author? Only articles critical of Apple or predictive of gloom and doom for the company are valid and newsworthy? Editorials like this are simply fanboy fantasies?

It has nothing to do with being a fan boy, it is about being gullible.  People see these long wordy article and for what ever reason take them as the absolute truth.   Rather they represent a perspective just like any other article and requires the reader to consider the veracity of the points offered.   For whatever reason many take DED’s writing style book line and sinker.  

The interesting thing here is that this is perhaps one of DEDs better write ups in that it is largely reflective of history with few distortions.   Well as far as I got in the article, I really have trouble with this sort of writing.  It is in the same style as the garbage seen on many conspiracy theory sites that use misleading language to get points across.  

In a nut shell DED reminds me too much of the writing seen on those conspiracy theory sites  and as such is repulsive.  Consider what you would think of people that keep flooding you with links to these sites.   Would you consider them well informed or gullible and stupid?    Frankly when I see people praise these articles, in absolute glowing manner,  I loose all respect for them as intelligent creatures.    Maybe this is the result of being around since the first personal computers came out and seeing some of this first hand.   The reality is that there are many explanations for the failure of almost every competitor to Windows.   Believe it or not many companies where simply mismanaged or otherwise shot themselves in the foot.   

philboogie said:

Yet even with Apple including Safari webbrowser to their iOS and macOS platforms, allegedly installed on more than 1.5 billion devices, its marketshare is a paltry 5.1%. Google's Chrome is on 72.4%, and people actually need to go online, download and install it. Somethings up, and it's not Apple's marketshare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser#Market_share

nealc5 said:

Perhaps its now time for Apple to release AppleWatch for Android.  It will expand the market for AppleWatch, in the same way that iPod did and iPhone does for Windows users. 

bigtds said:

Soli said:

I can't wait for Ralphie to come in here saying that iPads aren't real computers.

I guess my phone is a "real" computer too. There is nothing the iPad can do that my phone can't. The iPad didn't even have a usable file system until recently.

wizard69 said:

Somebodies memory must be failing because if memory serves iPad got a rather good reception in the media.   The paid shills of course had to trash the machine.   Then there are the people that couldn’t grasp the idea of a slightly different category of personal machine.   In general though the press was pretty good to IPad.  

As for the partnership that was more involved than the glossing over it got in this article.   Frankly it was an extremely successful partnership and only became a problem when Samsung’s fabs couldn’t keep up.