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Apple to Face iPod Clone Attack
chr1sb writes "The Age has a commentary piece outlining how Apple's domination of the online media market is continuing to grow, but speculating that significant competition from the likes of Nokia and Motorola will rapidly relegate Apple's presence in the market to a corner, just as clone manufacturing of IBM PCs dominated the initial success of the Macintosh. From the article: 'The iPod/iTunes system will move into a niche with Macintosh computers because Steve Jobs has again stuck with closed architecture and total control. This will happen quickly because mobile phones are being turned over about every year.'."
Waah! Apple makes better products!
Waah! Steve Jobs is smarter than us!
Waah! Apple makes it work while we have meetings!
Waah! We want total control and Apple won't let us!
Waah! Competition is too risky! We want a monopoly instead!
Of course, these are the exact same people who probably said "it'll never work" when the first mp3 players were announced. And they said "it'll never work" when Apple built iTunes. And they said "it'll never work" when Apple said they would make money on digital music. And they said "it'll never work" when Apple put it all together with OS X and the Mac and made the best computer system on the market, period.
And, as usual, they were wrong.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
You sound like a Jehova's witness predicting the end of the world...