Why Everyone is Afraid of Apple

Post by whakojacko » Thu, May 06, 2010, 3:06 AM UTC

InclinedPlane wrote: post #25

Apple is fundamentally a different kind of company than almost all other software or hardware companies. The prospect of J. Average Computer Company competing against J. Other Average Computer Company is straightforward, all that it takes to win against them is to keep doing what you're doing, only better, or more. The prospect of competing against Apple might be a bit more daunting, because potential it requires com…

Post by adrianwaj » Thu, May 06, 2010, 3:32 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #60

adrianwaj wrote: post #56

I'd love to see Apple do a watch, or a clip-on to a watch that enabled financial transactions as a substitute for cash. It'd probably need some type of rfid, and the merchant some type of biometric, otherwise if someone saw the watch, they might be tempted to steal.

Why wait for Apple to do it? A friend of mine is doing this, but on a card, not a watch: They'll be going live within the next couple of months, keep an eye out for something called the real X card.

Post by ptomato » Thu, May 06, 2010, 3:52 AM UTC

mistermann wrote: post #59

devinj wrote: post #52

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Right. But the bit where they don't give it to Apple immediately makes it theft. Which is worse, buying stolen property, or stealing property? If they couldn't be accused of the former, they would be accused of the latter. You seem to forget the very basis on which this was declared buying stolen property: the theft itself. The theft itself would have occurred no matter whether it was bought or not, and both parties…

Since when is finding something in a bar "theft"? There was a good article about this topic somewhere, about where journalists used to have balls, and the corporate victims were unhappy, but never before did they call the police and bust the door down. Apple lost a phone. And the police busted someone's door down. I've read many stories of lost phones where the original owner, via software, has given the exact addres…

Post by evgen » Thu, May 06, 2010, 4:18 AM UTC

jackowayed wrote: post #48

smokinn wrote: post #24

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I find it's rather that they take care of every detail. I refuse to buy an iPhone but I'm still not satisfied with the state of Android phones. There's the phones with the great cameras (but are underpowered). There's the phones with the great cpus (but wasted because of low ram) There's the phones with the good extra UI (wasted because they're underpowered) There's the good middle ground handicapped by a really old…

That's starting to change. The Nexus One is very nice, the Droid Incredible (which is basically the same thing with a better camera) is even better, HTC Sense is a very nice interface, and in June, Sprint's going to get the Evo, which is basically an Incredible with an even better camera (takes 720p video), a front-facing camera, 4G, a 4.3" screen, and the ability to act as a wifi router.

Post by bad_user » Thu, May 06, 2010, 6:59 AM UTC

visava wrote: post #54

csomar wrote: post #43

I think it's very challenging for Apple. Apple is making a skyrocketing revenue because iPad and iPhone sales has boomed. But iPad won't sell for 300K piece everyday, that only happened the first day... actually it can sell! Yes, but there is an interesting point (so that it sells at such high rate): Apple "must" dominate the market. For the iPhone, the competition is now fierce: Android, BlackBerry, Palm, Windows mo…

After using the Mac for the first time ( bought it just for iPhone development ) I was impressed . Forget iPhone and iPad , what if Mac becomes the standard. Read 'Mac is back' by Paul Graham. Many of my friends who do not do any programming bought Mac recently. Windows PC now feels like a waste of time to me. Maybe the masses will catch up later.