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So, if I were SJ, and I trusted a guy from another company, gave him early confidential information on a revolutionary product I was working on, then found out

by wooster 17y ago

So, if I were SJ, and I trusted a guy from another company, gave him early confidential information on a revolutionary product I was working on, then found out he was going to undercut me with a crappy knockoff of my product with a wider distribution model, I'd be pretty pissed. I'd be especially pissed when it happened AGAIN 22 years later. I'd be even more especially pissed if the person doing it had no business model behind it other than some fuzzy idea of gathering more web page views which would eventually lead to more mobile advertising dollars. In fact, I'd probably buy a mobile advertising company or two to make sure that guy never saw a red cent of the money from the platform I helped revolutionize. So, on that front, do you see why SJ might be pissed?

wooster 17y ago
For the curious: November 1985: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0 November 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) January 2010: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/apple-is-said-to-buy-mobile-ad-company/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/apple-is-said-to-bu...
Tichy 17y ago
Launching a mobile operating system seems very different from launching an iPhone. Possibly the time was just right? People forget that there where mobile phones before the iPhone, and programmable ones, too. You could even buy "apps" for them. What changed is the viability of mobile internet. It's only recently that it has become fast enough and affordable enough. Why should Apple be the only company inspired by these new possibilities?
- cpr 17y ago
  Apple was the company most responsible for the viability of the mobile Internet, with their focus on making WebKit in the first place, building on KDE, and then making it practical on a mobile device.
  - Tichy 17y ago
    The viability comes from bandwidth and reduced cost, not from a particular browser implementation. Touch screens help, too.

by wooster 17y ago

wooster 17y ago

For the curious: November 1985: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0 November 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) January 2010: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/apple-is-said-to-buy-mobile-ad-company/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/apple-is-said-to-bu...

Tichy 17y ago

Launching a mobile operating system seems very different from launching an iPhone. Possibly the time was just right? People forget that there where mobile phones before the iPhone, and programmable ones, too. You could even buy "apps" for them. What changed is the viability of mobile internet. It's only recently that it has become fast enough and affordable enough. Why should Apple be the only company inspired by these new possibilities?

cpr 17y ago
Apple was the company most responsible for the viability of the mobile Internet, with their focus on making WebKit in the first place, building on KDE, and then making it practical on a mobile device.
- Tichy 17y ago
  The viability comes from bandwidth and reduced cost, not from a particular browser implementation. Touch screens help, too.