Comments on: EffectiveUI Does Android change the game for Apple? http://johnwilker.com/2008/09/effectiveui-does-android-change-the-game-for-apple/ Books, Community, Entrepreneurship, Technology Sat, 19 May 2012 09:53:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tom Mollerus http://johnwilker.com/2008/09/effectiveui-does-android-change-the-game-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-1074 Tom Mollerus Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:45:06 +0000 http://www.johnwilker.com/j/index.cfm/2008/6/30/EffectiveUI-Does-Android-change-the-game-for-Apple#comment-1074 Android should mean something to Apple. It's the same kind of threat that the PC posed to the Macintosh back in the 80's, where Apple had a closed, controlled, and more expensive computer system that lost major market share to a less-elegant but more open and affordable PC architecture (I'm a Mac user, btw). I think that Android represents a major shift in the portable communications business model, and I think users will embrace it. It represents a completely open application platform, where users can choose their own hardware and software, and where communications, whether data or voice, will be a commodity service that you can change at will. Sounds like a personal computer with an Internet connection. It will be a portable personal computer with an Internet connection; just one that happens to be optimized to fit next to your head so that you can hear it and speak through it. It's the logical next step, and Apple will have to react and adapt to stay in that market. Android should mean something to Apple. It's the same kind of threat that the PC posed to the Macintosh back in the 80's, where Apple had a closed, controlled, and more expensive computer system that lost major market share to a less-elegant but more open and affordable PC architecture (I'm a Mac user, btw). I think that Android represents a major shift in the portable communications business model, and I think users will embrace it. It represents a completely open application platform, where users can choose their own hardware and software, and where communications, whether data or voice, will be a commodity service that you can change at will. Sounds like a personal computer with an Internet connection. It will be a portable personal computer with an Internet connection; just one that happens to be optimized to fit next to your head so that you can hear it and speak through it. It's the logical next step, and Apple will have to react and adapt to stay in that market.

]]> By: John Wilker http://johnwilker.com/2008/09/effectiveui-does-android-change-the-game-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-1079 John Wilker Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:45:06 +0000 http://www.johnwilker.com/j/index.cfm/2008/6/30/EffectiveUI-Does-Android-change-the-game-for-Apple#comment-1079 @ Tom, I agree, though what's funny, is that while Apple got their asses kicked by the PC. they certainly have come back, and not much has changed. They're still pretty closed up, though their hardware is at least industry standard now. My worry with Android is that it'll be a cluttery wasteland of too many apps, that suck, obscuring the ones that don't. Plus it's not so open, since TMO locked out Skype/VOIP. so if each carrier is demanding their own version of Android, I see that potentially making it useless since you can only program to the baseline, or exclude certain customers. I also agree that Apple needs to wake up. They're as "Too closed" as I think google might be "Too open". @ Tom,

I agree, though what's funny, is that while Apple got their asses kicked by the PC. they certainly have come back, and not much has changed. They're still pretty closed up, though their hardware is at least industry standard now.

My worry with Android is that it'll be a cluttery wasteland of too many apps, that suck, obscuring the ones that don't.

Plus it's not so open, since TMO locked out Skype/VOIP. so if each carrier is demanding their own version of Android, I see that potentially making it useless since you can only program to the baseline, or exclude certain customers.

I also agree that Apple needs to wake up. They're as "Too closed" as I think google might be "Too open".

]]> By: John Wilker http://johnwilker.com/2008/09/effectiveui-does-android-change-the-game-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-282 John Wilker Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.johnwilker.com/j/index.cfm/2008/6/30/EffectiveUI-Does-Android-change-the-game-for-Apple#comment-282 @ Tom, I agree, though what's funny, is that while Apple got their asses kicked by the PC. they certainly have come back, and not much has changed. They're still pretty closed up, though their hardware is at least industry standard now. My worry with Android is that it'll be a cluttery wasteland of too many apps, that suck, obscuring the ones that don't. Plus it's not so open, since TMO locked out Skype/VOIP. so if each carrier is demanding their own version of Android, I see that potentially making it useless since you can only program to the baseline, or exclude certain customers. I also agree that Apple needs to wake up. They're as "Too closed" as I think google might be "Too open". @ Tom,

I agree, though what’s funny, is that while Apple got their asses kicked by the PC. they certainly have come back, and not much has changed. They’re still pretty closed up, though their hardware is at least industry standard now.

My worry with Android is that it’ll be a cluttery wasteland of too many apps, that suck, obscuring the ones that don’t.

Plus it’s not so open, since TMO locked out Skype/VOIP. so if each carrier is demanding their own version of Android, I see that potentially making it useless since you can only program to the baseline, or exclude certain customers.

I also agree that Apple needs to wake up. They’re as "Too closed" as I think google might be "Too open".

]]> By: Tom Mollerus http://johnwilker.com/2008/09/effectiveui-does-android-change-the-game-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-281 Tom Mollerus Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.johnwilker.com/j/index.cfm/2008/6/30/EffectiveUI-Does-Android-change-the-game-for-Apple#comment-281 Android should mean something to Apple. It's the same kind of threat that the PC posed to the Macintosh back in the 80's, where Apple had a closed, controlled, and more expensive computer system that lost major market share to a less-elegant but more open and affordable PC architecture (I'm a Mac user, btw). I think that Android represents a major shift in the portable communications business model, and I think users will embrace it. It represents a completely open application platform, where users can choose their own hardware and software, and where communications, whether data or voice, will be a commodity service that you can change at will. Sounds like a personal computer with an Internet connection. It will be a portable personal computer with an Internet connection; just one that happens to be optimized to fit next to your head so that you can hear it and speak through it. It's the logical next step, and Apple will have to react and adapt to stay in that market. Android should mean something to Apple. It’s the same kind of threat that the PC posed to the Macintosh back in the 80′s, where Apple had a closed, controlled, and more expensive computer system that lost major market share to a less-elegant but more open and affordable PC architecture (I’m a Mac user, btw). I think that Android represents a major shift in the portable communications business model, and I think users will embrace it. It represents a completely open application platform, where users can choose their own hardware and software, and where communications, whether data or voice, will be a commodity service that you can change at will. Sounds like a personal computer with an Internet connection. It will be a portable personal computer with an Internet connection; just one that happens to be optimized to fit next to your head so that you can hear it and speak through it. It’s the logical next step, and Apple will have to react and adapt to stay in that market.

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