In considering the term revolutionary... and the much better term innovation...
I think one must compare the new iPhone to microsoft's "ipod killer" the zune... ... and laugh and laugh and laugh. The ONLY innovation Microsoft made over the iPod after 100% nocking it off... oh wait... they made the screen biigger... wow! now that's brilliant innovation... credit where credi is due.... anyway I was saying the only innovation microsoft made was adding wifi sharing... and it is... sooo dam convoluted I think you'd be hard pressed to find ANYONE who's ever used it. I mean... who spends all that time money and energy to engineer wifi into a device like that and then the only thing it does is some completely useless convoluted "social" as Microsoft likes to call it. Now compare that to the number and depth of innovations on the iPhone. There is NO comparison... non... microsoft literally could not design themselves out of a box. And I'll tell you why. Microsoft lacks ALL vision. They have none. With the type of technical and legal issues in the creation of the media market truely innovative products require management with true vision high up in the value chain... because some UI or useability geek... or even some engineer is not going to be able to overule some IDIOT suit further up the food chain on criticalusability issues. Quite simply put the zune is a premiere example of design by comitee. On the other hand jobs maybe a tyrant, but he is a man of uncompromised vision in touch with exactly what the consumer wants who seeks out brilliant designers and engineers that are uncompromising and ruthless as him. There couldn't be to companies that are more opposite of one another in corporate culture. The iphone is no where near as brilliant as the original mac... it's amazing definitely... but all steve did was go around and collect the fragmentary pieces of the puzzle from players like palm, and the blackberry... and others and combine them together in one... ok... the way he combined them was brilliant I can't deny it. It's just brilliant. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog On 1/11/07, Gromik Tohoku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > without quoting timshey out of proportion, > > >On 1/9/07, T Shey <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: > > To me, it just shows how arrogant Apple has become. > > I would like to comment that instead of concidering > Apple as "arrogant" may looking at how Apple is > revolutionising the industry, might be a better > interpretation. > > After all, IMHO, microsoft and all its affiliations is > not doing a whole lot to revolutionise my use of PC. > Until Apple came up with the iPod, Microsoft was > sitting still counting dollar bills. > > I am glad that Apple is giving the computer industry a > well deserved ass kick up the donkey! > > Nicolas > > > -------------------- > Gromik Nicolas > Tohoku University > Sendai, Japan > fax=81-22-7647 > ==================== > http://www.filmedworld.com/page.php?3 > http://nag-productions.blip.tv/? > http://sendai-city-tourism-tohoku-university.blip.tv/ > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
