As you can probably tell, i'm buried in techology at the moment producing jobs for Apple products so I'm catching up on debates which have been raging in iLand for years. What I really don't understand is how Steve Jobs can claim his restrictions are for the benefit of the human race and hoards of iSheep take his garbage and regurgitate it.
I wonder how much of this issue is generational. Most people I know who are over 30 remember the disaster Apple created the first time they owned the computing world and are watching with curiousity to find out how Steve Jobs and his megalomania will stuff it all up this time. When you read forums and chats from Apple fans talking about how poor the hardware quality is, the terrible repair centres and hardware support, and the lack of respect for loyal existing customers who constantly fork out a fortune for quickly out of date products, it is hard to see them still owning any market in 10 years time.
I just saw a post on Google buzz by one of the writers from CNET, stating how he hopes Adobe fixes the problems with Mac computers crashing when they run Flash. Sorry what? I thought mac's didn't crash?!?!
Why does adobe have to make flash work better on a mac? Why isn't it apple's responsibility to make their computers work properly with INDUSTRY STANDARD technologies? I can understand why Steve Jobs takes this line, he has profit to make and universes to take over, but what do individuals have to gain from such bias?
From my views it should be clear that I'm not an Apple fan, but I am grown up enough to admit when a technology is brilliant - I just don't think Apple are responsible for any of the brilliant parts.
I was going to try to find a 'team google' shirt ... but it seems Apple wants to take on anyone who has better products than them so my shirt may have to read 'team google, adobe ... and?' Maybe this time round, Steve Jobs should focus on improving Apple's products and respecting their customers who they seem to punish with every new release. All this energy put into fighting other companies is contributing to the 'us vs them' situation that got Apple in trouble the first time round with IBM and Microsoft. He certainly didn't get where he is for being smart or learning from his mistakes!
I like the angle HP are taking with their proposed SLATE (a nice name for a start!) by simply pointing out all the features their product offers that the iPad doesn't. Support for digital camera cards like SD, better interfacing with your pc (not via proprietary iTunes!), and the big white elephant that's missing from iPad's first release ... A CAMERA!
I've ordered my iPad. But knowing how little Steve Jobs cares about my $800 i'm sure a better release will come out within 6 months that features a camera, and I will be either expected to cough up another $800, or punished for being an early adopter by being stuck with out of date technology before it has its first birthday.
This highlights a famous quote by William Gibson ... The future is here, its just not evenly distributed.
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