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Complain all you want about their "abusive" policies, but 99% the people buying an iPad every 3 seconds probably don't even know or care what Flash is. Buying

Complain all you want about their "abusive" policies, but 99% the people buying an iPad every 3 seconds probably don't even know or care what Flash is. Buying an iOS device that doesn't support all those things is actually the public giving money to Apple to support this main philosophy: "We will tell developers that they can't make software that is hard to use." I mean, Apple hasn't actually said that, but that's what people are getting when they buy an iOS device. And guess what? People are actually buying them by the millions. Google will never remove themselves from iOS devices. They need the search traffic too badly. That's why Google is competing with Android. Google has a lot of smart people working there. They know the future is a mobile future and saw a potential future where consumers get all of their information from iApps instead of search engines.

ZeroGravitas 16y ago
Have you heard of Windows? Every one of the billions(?) of copies that it sold was, according to your theory, the public telling Apple that they hated their philosophy and supported their rival who held a diametrically opposed design philosophy.
- illumin8 16y ago
  A lot of those billions of copies are sold to corporations that don't give their employees any choice about what software to use.
  - ZeroGravitas 16y ago
    4 out of 10 iPhones sold by AT&T were to enterprises: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/at-t-exec-4-out-of-10-of-our-iphone-sales-to-enterprises/35145?tag=leftCol;post-4826 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/at-t-exec-4-out-of-10-of-our-i...
    - illumin8 16y ago
      At most companies that deploy enterprise phones, employees get a "choice" between Blackberry and iPhone now. Well, iPhone is not always available as a choice, but at my company it is now in the beta phase. Guess what people choose when they actually get a choice?
      - ZeroGravitas 16y ago
        Given my experience with home computer users over the last decade who all plumped for Windows, I'd suggest that they'd stick with what they know, or buy what everyone else was buying. Since according to the latest NPD numbers Blackberries are still selling more than iPhones in the US, and you say most companies offer a choice it appears Blackberry are better by this metric, just like Windows was better by this metric. I'm thinking it's not a very good metric.

ZeroGravitas 16y ago

Have you heard of Windows? Every one of the billions(?) of copies that it sold was, according to your theory, the public telling Apple that they hated their philosophy and supported their rival who held a diametrically opposed design philosophy.

illumin8 16y ago
A lot of those billions of copies are sold to corporations that don't give their employees any choice about what software to use.
- ZeroGravitas 16y ago
  4 out of 10 iPhones sold by AT&T were to enterprises: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/at-t-exec-4-out-of-10-of-our-iphone-sales-to-enterprises/35145?tag=leftCol;post-4826 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/at-t-exec-4-out-of-10-of-our-i...
  - illumin8 16y ago
    At most companies that deploy enterprise phones, employees get a "choice" between Blackberry and iPhone now. Well, iPhone is not always available as a choice, but at my company it is now in the beta phase. Guess what people choose when they actually get a choice?
    - ZeroGravitas 16y ago
      Given my experience with home computer users over the last decade who all plumped for Windows, I'd suggest that they'd stick with what they know, or buy what everyone else was buying. Since according to the latest NPD numbers Blackberries are still selling more than iPhones in the US, and you say most companies offer a choice it appears Blackberry are better by this metric, just like Windows was better by this metric. I'm thinking it's not a very good metric.