Surprisingly the one real moment of shittake in the Apple earnings call was prodded by an analyst who asked Apple COO Tim Cook what he thought about iPhone wannabes “like Android.” Tim Cook flings some poo at everybody else:
“Frankly, I think people are still just trying to catch up with the first iPhone 2 years ago.”
And that’s the one without apps. Wa-pow.
Anon
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 11:49 AMThis, comming from a company that only JUST decided to integrate FM radio into their PMP. Sure apple. Sure.
Louis
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 2:06 PMOne word, smug. Apple fans and employees im glad there stuck in there little “eco system” gives everyone else a chance to do it differently and better.
Joshua Beniston
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 3:25 PMBut that eco system they have created has not only been the most successful music and media stores in the world but compared to the competition has created a stable, reliable platform to share media, music and integrate your life through multiple platforms of theirs. Microsoft decided the other model of doing things, let everyone get into it and it has created a bastard platform that has zero support frame work of customer service. Just to add if the competition were doing it different and better why the hell are they all following or at least trying what apple is, similar interface (apple did it different to Nokia, Samsung etc) They try to provide a synching solution either by piggy backing off apple or supplying a crappy interface that has no substance then they all follow with an app store. Considering apple is on their 3rd phone how many are the others on? You think they would have got it right by now wouldn’t you? I’m not a fan boy I just hate people complaining about the iphone when they have done a very good job and shown that you don’t need to cram all the gadgets and features into some thing you just have to make it enjoyable, also to note half of the people are also just buying an ipod with phone features as the ipod is more important.
klaw81
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 11:51 AM@Joshua:
People that talk about “integrating their life” on an electronic device are rather more emotionally invested than they should be. It’s a music player, web browser and communication device….that’s all it is.
As for people buying an iPhone as an iPod – well, even most fanboys admit that the iPhone’s music interface is nowhere near as good as a standard iPod, and the iPhone is a hell of a lot more expensive. Perhaps they’re more interested in the trendy, pretty baubles than they care to admit.
iPhone has very few real innovations – I owned a HP device in 2004 that did everything that iPhone can do, and more.
Oh, and a wake-up call: Apple doesn’t make an ecosystem just to make users comfortable, they do it to leech more money out of their users. And guess what? It’s working…
Blake
Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 5:53 PM*Joshua casts wall of text*
*Blake is shocked at the giant single paragraph*
*Blake faints*