Apple’s enormously successful iPod/iPhone/iPad line have something in common with their iPod ancestors: you can’t even get started without a computer and iTunes.
This is given Apple a huge advantage, one that Apple’s competitors have failed to do anything about. And that advantage has nothing to do with songs, videos, apps or podcasts.
No, the real advantage of iTunes is that it ensures every iDevice user, first generation Nano
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Two weeks ago I pulled the trigger. Two days prior I had stopped in my local Verizon store, said I wanted a Droid X. The next day, the rep called and said he had one for me, as long as I was in the store by 5pm the next day, launch day. After dropping my kids at camp, I hustled in at 10am sharp. By 10:40 I was out the door with my new beast. So what has it been like? (more…)
Now I have a date: November 2010.
That’s the target date for me to leave my iPhone behind for an Android phone.
That’s the day I get out from under Steve’s thumb.
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What is a Middle-Finger-Flaw? A Middle-Finger-Flaw (MFF for short) is either a longtime bug or a missing feature, so egregiously possible to implement that every time your customers use your product, they are smacked in the face with the shovel of your dismissiveness.
To use your product is to be just slightly insulted. Every time.
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Microsoft was kind enough to comment that Google will have a tough time selling both a phone and an OS.
Microsoft Corp.’s Robbie Bach, head of the division that makes mobile-phone programs, said Google Inc. will have a hard time attracting partners to its wireless software after introducing its own handset.
Roughly Drafted toes the Apple-fanboy line that Android simply isn’t very important in the scheme of things:
But importantly, it will also expose Google’s tired attempt to beat Microsoft’s Window Mobile at its own game (without applying much creativity) as being much less important than the Android-enamored seem to think it is. Google isn’t changing the world with Android, it’s just ripping off an existing, unexceptional product. Google’s Android is not more special in the grand scheme of things than Compaq’s effort to clone the original IBM PC.
Both miss the point rather badly.
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Roughly Drafted proclaims:
The New York Times has again violated its own no-shill policy by paying Randall Stross to amplify Roger Entner and a variety of other mobile company clients who are all struggling to portray the iPhone as the reason why AT&T’s network is terrible in New York and San Francisco…
Because there can never be a problem with the beloved Jesus-phone, right?
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It is axiomatic in modern American life: the longer you are a customer, the more some of our most common, everyday corporations come to disdain you.
