Look people, the point is that you have choice. If you don't like
iPod, there are other decent PMPs out there. If you don't like
iPhone, just get a blackberry or android phone. If you don't like
ipad, pick one of those ipad wannabe win7 tablets available today.
It's not like ms office that only until recently you have no choice
but to use it if you want to share documents with the rest of the
word. Itune might be proprietory, but there are other music download
service out there.
On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]
> wrote:
On 2/17/10 18:14 , Casper Bang wrote:
Apple does not the chance to enjoy such
market dominance (except ipod but that is just an appliance)
It's funny how everyone keeps invoking the device/appliance argument,
as if somehow that turns a computer into a toaster. Apple are well
under way of achieving dominance and I guess we're just some who see
grave dangers in that prospect and who aren't ready to take the blue
pill.
I substantially agree with all the post, but I specifically wanted
to stress this point. "It's (only) an appliance" makes things worse.
First, "appliance" might be just a marketing term, but the key point
is that they are equipment used to communicate, so they are
definitely not a toaster. And, being "appliances", they are much
more pervasive than computers. In other words, at the old time of
Microsoft evilness, we were talking about computers, and they were
spread with a small fragment of the population; tv, radio and
newspapers were the classical ones and the major communication
channel. Now, these "appliances" will go in the hands of most of the
population and the channel convergence will make them more and more
relevant as most of the communication will flow through them.
What about if the next Apple product was an iTV, extremely cool and
powerful, and Apple decided which channels you can receive?
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