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Quoting out of context: "that Apple’s market domination has been an aberration" "that the company in the midst of an inevitable decline" Let me know w
by CoffeeDregs 13y ago
Quoting out of context:
"that Apple’s market domination has been an aberration"
"that the company in the midst of an inevitable decline"
Let me know when he gets to 2010... [I wrote an email to iOS/Android friend-partisans in April of 2010 predicting the effects of Apple's TOS changes. From my perspective, the TOS itself was not the issue; the orientation to developers was the issue. Pretty much all of the predictions in that email has been realized.]
I do agree with the point that it doesn't matter whether or not Samsung sells more phones or makes more profit than does Apple. But that doesn't mean that ecosystem shifts do not matter. They do and Android seems to be on the winning side of that shift.
This is also not to discount the value of advocating for the "right" side. Dating myself, I advocated for OS/2 in 1992 but my advocacy was drowned out by the dominance of Windows. That said, OS/2 had technical underpinnings to recommend it. At this point, iOS advocacy seems to be focused more on random factors (e.g. color scheme or parallax backgrounds) and less on significant
Another factor is the strange affliction that causes
many to believe whatever is attributed to an “analyst”
I assume by "many" he means "no one" since one is either unaware of analysts or, if aware, discounting of analysts.
I'm trying to read DF's article as something besides a partisan apology/explanation, but [as usual] I'm having a hard time. Hints?