Tag Archives: iOS

Android vs. Apple. Market Share vs. Profit Share, Part 255

June 9, 2013 – 10:59 pm

Tweet  Conventional wisdom and badly reconstructed history can lead to seemingly comfortable but in reality fragile conclusions. Prepare to be confused.  Ever since the Android platform emerged as the only real competitor to Apple’s iOS devices, we’ve been treated to a debate which I’ll oversimplify: If Apple makes all the money but Android gets all [...]

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Apple Can Finish What Microsoft’s Sinofsky Started

November 18, 2012 – 7:38 pm

Tweet  In 2007, Microsoft introduces a new version of Windows called Vista, a grand name for what turns out to be an embarrassing dud. (Memories of my first and determining interaction with Vista can be found here.) Steven Sinofsky, once a Bill Gates technical assistant and, at the time, head of Microsoft Office development, is [...]

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Carnival Barker Edition: Show me your iOS licensing certificate!

May 1, 2011 – 7:33 pm

TweetApple is doing it wrong, Apple is living on borrowed time! Apple will Fail Again! This idea, this meme, isn’t new. For more than 30 years we’ve heard a number of versions of the “Apple is doomed” requiem. December 12th 1980 — the day of Apple’s IPO, coincidentally — I’m in Geneva, signing my employment [...]

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iPhone = Mac 2.0

January 2, 2011 – 7:07 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée There are two ways to interpret the equation above. Doomsayers will sing the licensing blues. By refusing to license the operating system—iOS, in this case—the iPhone will drown in a sea of Android smartphones. We’ve seen it before: Apple is repeating the mistake that allowed Windows clones to scuttle the Mac. Others, [...]

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Apple’s Next Macintosh OS

October 31, 2010 – 6:37 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée Operating systems don’t age well. Some have better genes than others or they have more competent caretakers, but sooner or later they are stricken by a cancer of bug fixes upon bug fixes, upgrades upon upgrades. I know, I lived inside two OS sausage factories, Apple and Be, and was closely associated [...]

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