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Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the even-egos-go-on-vacation dept.

AcidAUS writes "The global chairman and CEO of home networking giant Netgear has launched into a scathing attack on Apple and its founder Steve Jobs, criticising Jobs's 'ego' and Apple's closed up products. At a lunch in Sydney today, Patrick Lo said Apple's success was centred on closed and proprietary products that would soon be overtaken by open platforms like Google's Android."

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  1. Re:Overtaken... by FuckingNickName · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    off of another company expensive R&D

    Clearly you're not talking about Apple. Most of their inventions (including but not limited to those patented) are quite trivial - check out Patently Apple some time. Apple's just good at identifying, integrating and commercialising other people's work. Then marketing it with the zeal of Mohammed.

  2. You confuse R&D with blue sky R by Brannon · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    There's a whole lot of engineering effort and industrial design that goes into making a great product--and it is incredibly expensive, which was the point of the original post. Apple spends a lot of money on development and other companies try to piggyback off of that. Some moron responded that Apple doesn't (in fact) spend any money on R&D--they just polish other peoples work and do intense marketing--which is so outrageously stupid I can't believe I even bothered responding to it.

    And then you responded saying something equally stupid about garbage collectors--all caught up now?