Tuesday, June 23, 2009
John C. Dvorak, Professional Know Nothing Idiot
Professional Windows Shill, Technology Know-Nothing, John C. Dvorak, stated in 2007 that Apple should "unplug" the iPhone. Fast forward to now, where Apple has announced it sold six million iPhone 3GS units in the first week.
This is why people don't listen to you, idiot. Apple did it their way, and easily has 10% (worldwide) market share in under a year. Motorola is looking at failing out of the phone business, and Verizon has nothing but blackberries, sad imitations, and paying lobbyists to talk up anti-trust claims.
Got any predictions for Bing.com, John?
The problem here is that while Apple can play the fashion game as well as any company, there is no evidence that it can play it fast enough. These phones go in and out of style so fast that unless Apple has half a dozen variants in the pipeline, its phone, even if immediately successful, will be passé within 3 months.
There is no likelihood that Apple can be successful in a business this competitive. Even in the business where it is a clear pioneer, the personal computer, it had to compete with Microsoft and can only sustain a 5% market share.
And its survival in the computer business relies on good margins. Those margins cannot exist in the mobile handset business for more than 15 minutes.
This is why people don't listen to you, idiot. Apple did it their way, and easily has 10% (worldwide) market share in under a year. Motorola is looking at failing out of the phone business, and Verizon has nothing but blackberries, sad imitations, and paying lobbyists to talk up anti-trust claims.
Got any predictions for Bing.com, John?
Labels: 2007 Predictions, apple, crazy people, links, Mac OS X
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
My sentiments exactly
This open letter over at iLounge is addressed to NBC, the makers of Heros, Battlestar Galactica, and The Office, who're pulling out from Apple's iTunes Store. Granted, he's a little fanboyish -- urging other people to stop supporting NBC -- but his point -- that people are actually paying good money for downloadable content that is broadcast everyday, for free, into the airwaves unprotected, was a pretty lucrative thing. And that people have an alternative: PVR/DVRs.
I was already considering some kind of PVR/DVR set up but I knew for most of my shows I could always snag the iTunes version of it if I missed an episode and that was a lot less mess and hassle. Now, it seems I'll have to Do-it-myself.
I was already considering some kind of PVR/DVR set up but I knew for most of my shows I could always snag the iTunes version of it if I missed an episode and that was a lot less mess and hassle. Now, it seems I'll have to Do-it-myself.
Labels: apple, iTunes, links, NBC, TV, video
