Naked Capitalism has a good post up on Apple v. “the Android menace.” I understand these posts tend to provoke flame wars, but the comments are also worth scrolling through. They’ve got a high-end readership over there, evidently.
Anyway, an excerpt from the post:
To my eyes, this is looking like a repeat of the Macintosh-PC Wars of the 1990s which Apple lost. On the one side, you have Apple, competing at the high end and very concerned about platform integrity and control, and preventing other manufacturers from building its hardware. On the other side, you have another operating system designed for the lower end and installed on a host of manufacturer systems – which may or may not cause serious platform integrity problems down the line. Who wins that battle?
I have no idea. Part of me is very interested in this topic. Part of me wonders, “in the end, who really gives a shit?” It’s just electronics. Before I had an iPod, I had a Sony portable CD player that I thought was pretty cool.
On the other hand, I still remember how, back in 2002, the iPod put a whole new shine on both music (shuffle!) and e-commerce. I remember marveling to a work colleague about how easy iTunes was. You just found something you wanted and clicked on it. Done.
Who knows. One day all this stuff will be nanotechnologically implanted, which reminds me of a Jimi tune.
But it’s all in your mind
Don’t think your time on bad things
Just float your little mind around
Look out ! Ow!
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