Comments on: Apple’s Rotten Strategy for the iPad http://smedio.com/2010/03/12/apple%e2%80%99s-rotten-strategy-for-the-ipad/ News and Tips on Using Social Media and Technology for Marketing and Sales Wed, 16 May 2012 23:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: 5 Ways Facebook Resemble a Successful Business | Lane S. Hill http://smedio.com/2010/03/12/apple%e2%80%99s-rotten-strategy-for-the-ipad/#comment-488 5 Ways Facebook Resemble a Successful Business | Lane S. Hill Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:27:53 +0000 http://smedio.com/?p=886#comment-488 [...] is Facebook blasted in the print so much?  Meanwhile, a company who has a charismatic leader, who have some pretty damning practices that reduce consumer freedom, get away almost scot free in the popular [...] [...] is Facebook blasted in the print so much?  Meanwhile, a company who has a charismatic leader, who have some pretty damning practices that reduce consumer freedom, get away almost scot free in the popular [...]

]]> By: Software Candy http://smedio.com/2010/03/12/apple%e2%80%99s-rotten-strategy-for-the-ipad/#comment-85 Software Candy Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:14:56 +0000 http://smedio.com/?p=886#comment-85 The points in this article regarding consumer freedom are all valid and make a lot of sense.<br><br>Adding the angle of (some) software developers: How much sense does it make to totally depend on a single source of distribution, with an agreement that allows whimsical rejection?<br><br> Google "EFF Apple Agreement" and see what we mean. The points in this article regarding consumer freedom are all valid and make a lot of sense.

Adding the angle of (some) software developers: How much sense does it make to totally depend on a single source of distribution, with an agreement that allows whimsical rejection?

Google “EFF Apple Agreement” and see what we mean.

]]> By: Andrew Euell http://smedio.com/2010/03/12/apple%e2%80%99s-rotten-strategy-for-the-ipad/#comment-84 Andrew Euell Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:27:32 +0000 http://smedio.com/?p=886#comment-84 Apple is not the new Microsoft so much as it is the new AT&T (ironic?)<br>I'm not talking about the new AT&T but the old "Bell System" pre-1984 AT&T.<br>Back then AT&T exercised full control and monopoly over the the telephones and everything related to them.<br>They owned ALL the phone lines, phones, exchanges, and switches. You had to rent your phone from the phone company, and you were not allowed to touch the phone lines in your own house! You couldn't plug or unplug anything from the lines unless you had their permission.<br>Compare this to Apple who owns the device, the platform, the operating system, the marketplace, the apps.<br>Apple's user agreement and terms are about as restrictive as Ma Bell's control over your phone!<br>The companies software, development tools, api's, and its mobile hardware have endless terms and clauses to give them full control of their products top to bottom.<br>This brings up a part of Apple that makes them unlike Microsoft: Apple is a consumer device design company, Microsoft is a software company. Even the Mac platform is a consumer device. You can install Windows or Windows Mobile on any platform you can get it running on, and there are many options for developing software on both those platform. There also is no restriction on writing apps for either platforms. If you're developing for Mac OS X, or any of the iPhone OS based devices you have only one realistic choice, to use Xcode and all of the components of the Apple toolchain.<br>Apple also practices the anti-competitive tactic known as "refusal to deal" where it grants exclusivity contracts and locks out competitors. They choose what carriers are allowed, who can submit apps, and the licensing of the FairPlay DRM. Similar practices were used by Bell to keep out any other companies from delivering services using AT&T's lines.<br>Apple is more of a monopoly of restriction whereas Microsoft is more of a monopoly of acquisition where they get in their position by buying competitors and using that as their leverage.<br><br>Disclaimer: I am running Debian GNU/Linux on a MacBook Pro, my favorite programing language is C#, and my phone is a BlackBerry. Apple is not the new Microsoft so much as it is the new AT&T (ironic?)
I'm not talking about the new AT&T but the old “Bell System” pre-1984 AT&T.
Back then AT&T exercised full control and monopoly over the the telephones and everything related to them.
They owned ALL the phone lines, phones, exchanges, and switches. You had to rent your phone from the phone company, and you were not allowed to touch the phone lines in your own house! You couldn't plug or unplug anything from the lines unless you had their permission.
Compare this to Apple who owns the device, the platform, the operating system, the marketplace, the apps.
Apple's user agreement and terms are about as restrictive as Ma Bell's control over your phone!
The companies software, development tools, api's, and its mobile hardware have endless terms and clauses to give them full control of their products top to bottom.
This brings up a part of Apple that makes them unlike Microsoft: Apple is a consumer device design company, Microsoft is a software company. Even the Mac platform is a consumer device. You can install Windows or Windows Mobile on any platform you can get it running on, and there are many options for developing software on both those platform. There also is no restriction on writing apps for either platforms. If you're developing for Mac OS X, or any of the iPhone OS based devices you have only one realistic choice, to use Xcode and all of the components of the Apple toolchain.
Apple also practices the anti-competitive tactic known as “refusal to deal” where it grants exclusivity contracts and locks out competitors. They choose what carriers are allowed, who can submit apps, and the licensing of the FairPlay DRM. Similar practices were used by Bell to keep out any other companies from delivering services using AT&T's lines.
Apple is more of a monopoly of restriction whereas Microsoft is more of a monopoly of acquisition where they get in their position by buying competitors and using that as their leverage.

Disclaimer: I am running Debian GNU/Linux on a MacBook Pro, my favorite programing language is C#, and my phone is a BlackBerry.

]]> By: RichWojtczak http://smedio.com/2010/03/12/apple%e2%80%99s-rotten-strategy-for-the-ipad/#comment-82 RichWojtczak Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:31:28 +0000 http://smedio.com/?p=886#comment-82 Not sure which group of fans you are talking about -- I think you are lumping all Mac users in with iPhone users and that may be a big mistake. Mac addicts (I am one of them) stay with Mac because it is simply the greatest thing since sliced bread and orders of magnitude better than the alternatives that MS and Bill have been able to put up against it.<br><br>iPhone users are not one and the same -- the iPhone from what I have heard (no, I don't have one, refuse to go back to AT&T lack of service) has a radically different user base in that they are there because no one else is better.<br><br>I believe that Apple with the iPad is attempting, and may or may not succeed, to do the same thing with the tablet market. We'll see what happens after launch and user experiences start to influence the market. Not sure which group of fans you are talking about — I think you are lumping all Mac users in with iPhone users and that may be a big mistake. Mac addicts (I am one of them) stay with Mac because it is simply the greatest thing since sliced bread and orders of magnitude better than the alternatives that MS and Bill have been able to put up against it.

iPhone users are not one and the same — the iPhone from what I have heard (no, I don't have one, refuse to go back to AT&T lack of service) has a radically different user base in that they are there because no one else is better.

I believe that Apple with the iPad is attempting, and may or may not succeed, to do the same thing with the tablet market. We'll see what happens after launch and user experiences start to influence the market.

]]> By: eric http://smedio.com/2010/03/12/apple%e2%80%99s-rotten-strategy-for-the-ipad/#comment-78 eric Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:01:18 +0000 http://smedio.com/?p=886#comment-78 My thought is that someone should proof this story. My thought is that someone should proof this story.

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