Comments on: Apple’s Arrogance Comes Home To Roost http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/is-apple-the-new-microsoft-6824 Enhancing business with technology - in association with eweek.com Sat, 19 May 2012 05:20:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: lenny http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/is-apple-the-new-microsoft-6824#comment-28748 lenny Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:02:48 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/?p=6824#comment-28748 Stickman is right about Flash and Apple. Steven just hates Flash because it is almost synomymous with the internet as HTML is (o.k. slight exegeration, but you get my point) And then he states that it's a thing "of the past". huh? I really like Flash. It *is* quite resource demanding (true) but in my experience quite stable and it has so many uses. It also came a long way (starting with macromedia) so I simply do not believe that it will be quicly replaced within a very short time. Stickman is right about Flash and Apple. Steven just hates Flash because it is almost synomymous with the internet as HTML is (o.k. slight exegeration, but you get my point)

And then he states that it’s a thing “of the past”.

huh?

I really like Flash. It *is* quite resource demanding (true) but in my experience quite stable and it has so many uses. It also came a long way (starting with macromedia) so I simply do not believe that it will be quicly replaced within a very short time.

]]> By: Peter Judge http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/is-apple-the-new-microsoft-6824#comment-28323 Peter Judge Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:55:20 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/?p=6824#comment-28323 Thanks Fredsky In a very real sense, you are participating as co-editors. Thanks for picking up those errors (though I'm not sure I get your objection to "shifting". Peter Judge Editor, eWEEK Europe UK Thanks Fredsky

In a very real sense, you are participating as co-editors.

Thanks for picking up those errors (though I’m not sure I get your objection to “shifting”.

Peter Judge
Editor, eWEEK Europe UK

]]> By: Fredsky http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/is-apple-the-new-microsoft-6824#comment-28176 Fredsky Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:18:21 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/?p=6824#comment-28176 EJO commented on your article by writing: "You make your living with words" and made what appears to me a legitimate criticism of the content. There is nothing I can add to it but let me comment on the form, which I believe should also be important for someone who makes his living with words. You wrote: "capabile" of some astonishing displays of arrogance Apple "doen’t" often get caught the company "shifting" its one millionth iPad Flash does "has" known security issues. Does this place have an editor? EJO commented on your article by writing: “You make your living with words” and made what appears to me a legitimate criticism of the content. There is nothing I can add to it but let me comment on the form, which I believe should also be important for someone who makes his living with words.

You wrote:

“capabile” of some astonishing displays of arrogance
Apple “doen’t” often get caught
the company “shifting” its one millionth iPad
Flash does “has” known security issues.

Does this place have an editor?

]]> By: Stickman http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/is-apple-the-new-microsoft-6824#comment-27320 Stickman Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:41:54 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/?p=6824#comment-27320 The reason Apple don't like Flash is because they don't own it, and don't like any other company having any influence on the consumer market I don't buy apple products because they are too expensive and commercially CLOSED, ie they offend my sense of fair play, just like IBM, Microsoft, Nokia - all giants of the PAST. I await Google's future demise when it becomes power mad and takes the P***s out of it's customers, just like Apple do now. The reason Apple don’t like Flash is because they don’t own it, and don’t like any other company having any influence on the consumer market

I don’t buy apple products because they are too expensive and commercially CLOSED, ie they offend my sense of fair play, just like IBM, Microsoft, Nokia – all giants of the PAST.

I await Google’s future demise when it becomes power mad and takes the P***s out of it’s customers, just like Apple do now.

]]> By: stewart http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/is-apple-the-new-microsoft-6824#comment-25462 stewart Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:08:36 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/?p=6824#comment-25462 "On the other hand they are English or European and they might still think they rule the Raj." Errr. England is actually in Europe. And of course, everybody here thinks we still "rule the raj". We're really THAT stupid. I have a good many American friends with an excellent grasp of both history and geography, so I won't retort with any racial sterotypes, but honestly do you really think that a criticism of a large corporation with enough corporate lawyers to more than look after themselves merits a comment like that? “On the other hand they are English or European and they might still think they rule the Raj.”

Errr. England is actually in Europe. And of course, everybody here thinks we still “rule the raj”. We’re really THAT stupid.

I have a good many American friends with an excellent grasp of both history and geography, so I won’t retort with any racial sterotypes, but honestly do you really think that a criticism of a large corporation with enough corporate lawyers to more than look after themselves merits a comment like that?

]]> By: Brent http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/is-apple-the-new-microsoft-6824#comment-19362 Brent Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:35:30 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/?p=6824#comment-19362 Apple's marketing department sets the standard for world class marketing. They will continue to be successful so long as they market their devices properly, continue to be trendy, and make users feel like geniuses when they can open up an Apple product and know instantly how to use it due to its mostly intuitive design. Attention needs to be made to their sub-prime products and hopefully lessons will be learned but even if they aren't it only takes the right marketing to fix it. At the end of the day, sales are the only thing that matters to a company. It's not necessarily a bad thing, not necessarily a good thing, just a fact. Users & engineers, including myself, may care about the definition of 'true multitasking' but at the end of the day so long as the user is content with the product that's all that really matters. Apple’s marketing department sets the standard for world class marketing. They will continue to be successful so long as they market their devices properly, continue to be trendy, and make users feel like geniuses when they can open up an Apple product and know instantly how to use it due to its mostly intuitive design.

Attention needs to be made to their sub-prime products and hopefully lessons will be learned but even if they aren’t it only takes the right marketing to fix it. At the end of the day, sales are the only thing that matters to a company. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, not necessarily a good thing, just a fact. Users & engineers, including myself, may care about the definition of ‘true multitasking’ but at the end of the day so long as the user is content with the product that’s all that really matters.

]]> By: Neil McLeish http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/is-apple-the-new-microsoft-6824#comment-15687 Neil McLeish Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:46:07 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/?p=6824#comment-15687 Purely and simply, Flash is dying. Get used to it, and move on. It is called "progress", and anyone in the tech business with a Luddite attitude needs to get a new job. N :) Purely and simply, Flash is dying.
Get used to it, and move on.

It is called “progress”, and anyone in the tech business with a Luddite attitude needs to get a new job.

N :)

]]> By: Master Shake http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/is-apple-the-new-microsoft-6824#comment-13141 Master Shake Thu, 20 May 2010 16:11:40 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/?p=6824#comment-13141 I wonder why all the Apple Fans become amateur lawyers just to defend a corporation. It seems like the products are so perfect that they make everyone knowledgeable in CA Law I wonder why all the Apple Fans become amateur lawyers just to defend a corporation. It seems like the products are so perfect that they make everyone knowledgeable in CA Law

]]> By: DataHavok http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/is-apple-the-new-microsoft-6824#comment-12672 DataHavok Wed, 12 May 2010 00:02:34 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/?p=6824#comment-12672 That's weird. The police don't ever go raid anyone's home when someone steals -my- cellphone. Oh wait, I forgot, FASCISM. I guess when the lost phone belongs to a corporation (and even after it's found and returned!!), such jack-boot thug tactics are fine. Hurrah Steve Jobs!!! That’s weird. The police don’t ever go raid anyone’s home when someone steals -my- cellphone.

Oh wait, I forgot, FASCISM. I guess when the lost phone belongs to a corporation (and even after it’s found and returned!!), such jack-boot thug tactics are fine.

Hurrah Steve Jobs!!!

]]> By: KSK http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/is-apple-the-new-microsoft-6824#comment-12656 KSK Tue, 11 May 2010 15:18:31 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/?p=6824#comment-12656 Not to nit pick, but carrying on in the spirit of EJO, please check your facts before publishing, which includes learning not to confuse the various parts of a computer(-like) device with its functions. No "processor" has USB ports or card slots. Apple bought Intrinsity, a chip manufacturer that is likely behind the A4 chip/processor. What peripherals Apple chooses to support for a given A4-based platform is a decision based on what they perceive their customers need. They're usually pretty good at that and seem to make decisions based on usability and the economics of device upgrade frequency. So, not having card slots on your iPad means that you can't add flash-based storage. However, IMHO even an 8 GB iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch is plenty when backed by a desktop machine functioning as primary storage for movies, music, docs, etc. The point about USB/WiFi/Bluetooth/3G connectivity made above is well taken. Re: multitasking, by the time the article above was published, a Google search would tell you that it'll be in OS 4.0, which is in beta with developers. E.g., I found http://gizmodo.com/5512656/how-multitasking-works-in-the-new-iphone-os-40 So, if you don't have the technical chops to understand the technology you're reporting, get a friend who does and buy him scotch/beer to keep you honest and knowledgeable... Not to nit pick, but carrying on in the spirit of EJO, please check your facts before publishing, which includes learning not to confuse the various parts of a computer(-like) device with its functions.

No “processor” has USB ports or card slots. Apple bought Intrinsity, a chip manufacturer that is likely behind the A4 chip/processor. What peripherals Apple chooses to support for a given A4-based platform is a decision based on what they perceive their customers need. They’re usually pretty good at that and seem to make decisions based on usability and the economics of device upgrade frequency. So, not having card slots on your iPad means that you can’t add flash-based storage. However, IMHO even an 8 GB iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch is plenty when backed by a desktop machine functioning as primary storage for movies, music, docs, etc. The point about USB/WiFi/Bluetooth/3G connectivity made above is well taken.

Re: multitasking, by the time the article above was published, a Google search would tell you that it’ll be in OS 4.0, which is in beta with developers. E.g., I found http://gizmodo.com/5512656/how-multitasking-works-in-the-new-iphone-os-40

So, if you don’t have the technical chops to understand the technology you’re reporting, get a friend who does and buy him scotch/beer to keep you honest and knowledgeable…

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