[IP] Re: [ I know this will raise a storm djf] Hackers make progress towards unlocking iPhone

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@bbiw.net>
Date: July 4, 2007 9:53:29 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip@v2.listbox.com, "RJR RJRiley.com" <RJR@RJRILEY.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: [ I know this will raise a storm djf] Hackers  
make progress towards unlocking iPhone




> From: "RJR RJRiley.com" <RJR@RJRILEY.com>
...
> I think that Apple is a good example of a company who started as an  
> innovator and then as they aged they became just one more large  
> corporate parasite.


Apple has continued to show a stellar ability to package beautifully and
market effectively.  That their products are not particularly innovative
doesn't seem to matter much to the market.

I don't like closed platforms either.  But the open systems world has  
been
ineffective at packaging products and marketing them to consumers.

For example, Unix platform vendors seem to treat each other as the
competition, rather than Microsoft and Apple.

They also seem to miss the key requirement for the desktop:   
applications.

When challenged on this point, they dismiss the issue by saying that
applications can be accessed over the web.  This limits the market to  
those
with high-bandwidth, fulltime access and a willingness to share all  
one's
personal data with a third-party service.

Some of us find that model a tad limiting.


d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net


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