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while all the commentators and media are wetting their pants about who has landed what blow on who I can't help feeling that the real winners are going to be us
by junklight 16y ago
while all the commentators and media are wetting their pants about who has landed what blow on who I can't help feeling that the real winners are going to be us users.
Apple will lose if they don't respond - and it would seem likely that they will be forced to add some of these features - streaming from my media library being one I would particularly like.
Keep landing those killer blows guys and making your products better and better!
(mind you I have horrible suspicion that I will end up with devices from both camps - if the production android pad is cool will almost certainly buy one as well as an ipad)
- roc 16y agoThe competition is great for the users. The only bad thing is the war of words from either side that insults the intelligence of the readers.
- s3graham 16y agoAgreed. The features and progress demonstrated in Android was great, but the continuous "open blah blah" and snide Apple-Flash-whatever 'jokes' were tiring and lame. Did they really think they wouldn't get media coverage pointing out the obvious comparisons if they just demo'd and explained rather than explicitly mocking?
- zmmmmm 16y agoI actually wonder how Apple will respond. Part of the reason for Steve Jobs' genius is that he single mindedly believes in his own vision of what users want and what the world should be like. And the problem with that is that although he's mostly right he's always at last partly wrong. So he'll try to respond by moving his platform closer to his own preconceived idea of perfection which is actually partly wrong. In other words, I wonder if one of Apple's fatal flaws is that they aren't capable of responding in a competitive firefight the way a company with less idealism would.