mcdave

So this show descended into yet more self-entitlement propaganda before it’s even launched.  Pass.

Fraser Speirs’ comments seemed to illustrate how education has followed business in putting provider convenience before customer experience. He seems to be really bitter about the demise of iTunesU whilst ignoring other benefits.

A few confusing points for me as Apple has been pushing;
- document persistence  since before Google got into Apps and most Apps don’t have ‘Save’ buttons.
- non-file-based sharing, just push the content from the App.
- cloud persistence with iCloud (and were even lambasted for not presenting it as a ‘drive’). Did Fraser forget to turn iCloud on?
- did they not use Jamf for device/content config/deployment? Or Classroom Apps for management?

I am with him on Apple dropping content/courseware production tools. And not turning macOS cloud-first as iOS has been since iCloud (even if he fails to acknowledge it).  They deserve to lose the classroom which is a shame because iOS Apps win over Chrome/Web Apps any day.

Sort it out Apple.

lorin schultz said:

Would a move to ARM mean no more Thunderbolt?

No. IBMs latest POWER beast supports PCIe4.0 & thunderbolt.

Apple tie services to hardware making sure old machines aren’t  supported with new services/features/document compatibility. We’ve all fallen foul of this at some point (even MS support their document formats on older hardware).

They’ve been pinged for doing this with iOS (sub-optimal on older devices) and have retracted with iOS12 so I guess they’ll continue to force upgrades with reduced service functionality on older hardware.

svanstrom said:

mcdave said:

Can a market that was never open in the first place be monopolised?

If you change your word around to be "a monopoly", then it becomes non-trivial to answer…

At the point where a new market becomes critical for society it becomes detrimental if it is a functioning monopoly, and that's what the laws target; not whether or not a private actor on their own market is able to do the philosophical loop-the-loop of monopolising their own market.

Then it’s a good job the integrated OS/App Store doesn’t represent the whole market, just a portion of it so I guess one actor’s practices can dictate nothing.

You’re monopoly assertion is wrong by the way.  I live in a little country called New Zealand with the total population of a small-medium US city.  Every time we apply ‘free market’ economic models here the low transaction volumes fail to resolve to the benefit of the customer and we end up getting fleeced.