Hi, First let me confess that I love apple product even since the release of first the iphone. Although I never really buy an iphone, I get a couple ipod touches and a mac mini - love them.
I am not sure whats people's problem with ipad or apple product in general. Like other posts mentioned, apple has a unique ability to innovate and create new markets. Look at what ipod/itune changed the music industry (whether you like it or not). Not to mention before iphone, those so call smart phones are the ones that you can send email and browse web with crappy browser - and that is it. You have to agree that the modern smart phones such as android and palm pre - are strongly influenced by iphone. Apple also helped the boom of app stores and mobile development (which sun tried to do with J2ME for ages without much success). So now we have ipad coming to the market. I will probably get one when it is released but it is just me. For those of you think ipad/tablet pc is a bad idea - you should not even bother. If you like tablet but hate ipad, there are probably about 10 tablets announced in the last 6 months. No one force you to get an ipad, but you have to appreciate apple, without ipad, there wont be that many tablet in the market - and please dont talk about MS - they started the idea with tablet, but the MS mentality that everything they do have to use windows is just not very bright. So bottom line is, no one is forced to use apple product. There are plenty of decent products out there that are competing with apple's product, many of them are inspired by apple's success. Maybe apple create closed products (that does not bother me specially on ipod touch since I dont have to worry about malware), but without apple it will take many years more for us to get the technology that are available to us today. Finally, I dont agree that Apple is as evil as MS. Microsoft stops to innovate after they have the market share. Just look at the gap between IE6 to IE7 (I will argue that also delays advancement of web development technologies), and the gap between XP and Vista (or win7 - vista is a junk). The evilness of Microsoft is based on its market share. There was time that you had to use word and your website have to support crappy IE6. Apple does not the chance to enjoy such market dominance (except ipod but that is just an appliance) and so far they keep innovating and being the technology pioneers. For that, whether you like their tactic or not, you should appreciate the new field and opportunity that was not available in the past. Just my own humble opinion -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
