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Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple
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."
Actually, Apple's currently the third-place player in the smartphone market, after Google and Symbian. (Apple's hardly going to fail in that business, though. Even six months ago they were making about half of the money in the entire mobile phone market.)
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
However, developers are still subject to the rules of the Android store.
They are not. Tick "Settings -> Applications -> Allow installation of non-Market applications" on your Android phone and install the app directly from the developer's website.
The day you can do that on an iPhone is the day it stops being a closed platform.
The phone manufacturers are carriers still have the final say on which features of the OS are actually shipped intact
There are hundreds of Android phone models. Not all phones have or need the same features. If you don't like one phone's feature set, choose a different one.
Find me an iPhone manufacturer that isn't Apple.
If I find Motorola's restrictions on a DROID 2 onerous, I could just buy Google's Nexus S instead. They're both Android phones and they'll both run the same apps.
Find me an iPhone that's sold without Apple's restrictions.
Does my bum look big in this?
Actually they're not. AppleTV (an iAnything if ever there was one) has been pretty much DOA until recently - Xserve was killed due to lack of sales - (you'd think the corporate fanboys in Hollywood and New York would have lapped those up?!)
How is this still debated? Not everything Apple touches turns to gold. Your meme is defective.
He already has. Tim Cook has been running Apple for a while, and was solely in charge during Steve's previous leave of absence. They have been working on what to do for some time, not just with Tim Cook, but with the whole top level team. Consider that they have known Steve's health condition for a lot longer than we have.