On 9 Mrz., 12:12, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > So, sorry, but the Apple environment looks bad and hostile > to innovation in every perspective you looked at it.
It certainly looks good to end users, though - no bot nets in an app store app: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/09/smartphone_botnet_poc/ > PS Concerning that wrong fiasco forecast of iPhone, I'm > really not the guy who make predictions, nor is able to > comment how good or bad is another guy's prediction. Up to > today, that statement is clearly wrong. But looking at some > recent analysts' forecasts predicting that Android will have > more success than iPhone, and above all looking at Apple's > nervous attitude demonstrated by the recently triggered > patents war, I'd seriously suspend any judgement for a few > time. Sometimes bad ideas seem to work in the short and > medium time, and fail in the longer - because of myopia. Anything is possible, but most observers think that the smartphone market will mature down to 2-3 platforms, and most everybody counts in Android and Apple and counts out Palm (sorry, Josh). I agree with this statement. Apple has design and consumer in their DNA, as Google has the web and Microsoft has enterprise - and smartphones are consumer devices. It's hard to out-design Apple, Apple will probably have the least-fragmented smartphone platform and already has a ton of non-smartphone devices with iPhone OS (iPod touch, soon iPad and more to come: http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=48156&CurrentPage=1) which means more devices with lower barriers to entry (no contract, no two-year-plans). I think at this point it's Apple's game to lose, and suing HTC is such a stupid move (unless they also had to sue Android to hold up their touch-patent-counter-suite against Nokia). -- 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.
