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Editorial: How Steve Jobs' 'Thoughts On Flash' gave iPad a head start in tablets
.. and yet an incredible number of sites continue to rely on Flash, which I regard of an indication on how stupid some decision makers can be ... (but you know, hydrogen is not the more abundant element of the universe ..)
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Qualcomm hints 5G iPhone coming in 2020, analysts say
Part of the reasons why I bought an iPhone this year is that I did NOT want 5G .......
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How Apple's dramatic rise in computing flipped an OS myth
knowitall said:
Apple understands computers, not cars.
Tesla understands computers and cars.
Tesla understands how to mesmerize shareholders.
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How Apple's dramatic rise in computing flipped an OS myth
Actually Apple has found a workaround against your (perfectly sound) reasoning, by selling simultaneous generations of iPhones, some of them at very competitive price. But the trick is of course that it is not "high end" versus "low end", but "recent" versus "not so recent (but which used to be an high end, not so long ago, though !)" ......tundraboy said:Windows has proven long ago that the main dimension for product differentiation in computing devices is the OS not hardware. Meaning a mass market for 'high end' Windows machines can never be sustained as long as dirt-cheap good-enough Windows machines are available. Even people who can afford it will pick the low cost machines because the pace of technological change is so fast, who would want to spend a lot of money on a machine that will be outdated in 3 years?
The seminal case is Northgate Computers who started selling DOS-Windows machines using high end components and materials in 1987 and was filing for Chapter 11 by 1994. Steve Jobs knew this so the one of the first things he did when he regained control of Apple was to kill Apple's licensing program. The idea that the clones would sell to the low end Mac market while Apple reserved the high end of the market for itself was just sheer stupidity. High end Macs will not sell as long as dirt-cheap clones are available.
Fast forward to Google and Android. When it first came out, I predicted that the same dynamic will apply and there will be no sustainable market for high-end Android phones. I also predicted that Android will be the phone OS of choice in the third world. 2 out of 2. Not that I was going out on a limb with those predictions.
The amazing thing is that Google thought that Android phones would not repeat the pattern shown by Windows computers. So much for hiring Ivy League economics professors to advise them.
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Jony Ive subject of new National Portrait Gallery commission
Here is another one :
