I think it was more that the people Rubinstein left behind clung on to the iPod mentality of a closed architecture that allowed only a handful of developers to write code for it for a very long time before finally giving up
The iPhone SDK was introduced to developers nine months after the original iPhone was released the App Store came online 3 months later.
The iPhone, and none of Apple's other products, are an improvement. They're veblen goods, people just pay more for them despite less features, walled gardens, forced obsolescence, lack of expandability, NO FREAKING SD CARD SLOT and other anti-consumer practices because they're stupid. Same reason people pay $5 for $0.30 of coffee at Starbucks, they want to feel like a princess by spending more when the reality is they're just getting ripped off.
I can't seem to find the SD card slot in any Nexus Phone....
And as far as forced obsolescence, a 2011 iPhone 4s can still run the latest OS. How many Android phones that were sold during thst time period are still officially supported? Apple provided a security patch for the 3GS released 6/2009 on 2/2014. Android manufacturers and Google left security problems on Android phones less than 2 years old.
You must not remember the limitations the first iPhone had. Its key differentiator, the App Store, did not exist for the first two iterations.
The iPhone first came to market in the middle of 2007. The App Store came online middle 2008 with the 2nd gen iPhone 3G in 2008 and was compatible with the first iPhone.
The thing that Compaq reverse-engineered to build the first "IBM Compatible" back in the 80's. If you think that a Mac is a "PC" then try booting DOS on it. Doesn't work, huh?
The Mac has had a BiOS emulation level since 2006. You can take a 64 bit version of Windows and install it on a 64 bit Mac just by sticking the disk in,
For a 32-bit Mac (like my Core Duo Mac Mini), you have to reformat the disk first to use MBR and then you can just stick a Windows 7 disk in and install it like you would any other PC.
So in that case you bringing up the Mac vs. PC commercials as evidence made no sense since a Mac has been "able" to have Windows installed since 2006. When Apple stopped supporting my 2006 Mac Mini, all I had to do was reformat the hard drive and stick a Windows 7
disk in and it worked perfectedly.
"Show me the PCs running anything but Windows, and I won't call your post a straw man. Microsoft continues to exercise and abuse market power in the PC market, please stick to the issue."
Keep in mind that many app developers put a huge amount of time and effort into developing their apps and publishing them, and then only see a small trickle of income.
And many others have sense enough to go work for a company that has benefits and resources and make an easy $100K+ a year....
$18 billion profit, but they can't afford to make their phones in a country with decent labour laws. Nope, can't do it. The numbers just don't add up I tell you. Apple are the apotheosis of psychopathic corporate greed, at the expense of any human decency.
So which country are most of your electronic products made in? What about your clothes? your shoes?
I am no native English speaker, but you got the point. Something so successful in business can't be optimal for consumer. It means basically one thing, that if there is analogue for this product, and there is, they are overcharging.
Again, in a free market where there are literally hundreds of alternatives, the consumer -- all 75 million of them -- chose what they felt would be an "optimal" use of their money. The per capita income in the US is around $50,000. If someone chose to spend about 1.2% of that income on an iPhone -- something they use multiple times per day, that's capitalism working "optimally". Their is market for a product and a producer willing to create it for a price they both feel is fair.
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If you are truly even an average developer and you are getting pay cuts and not able to compete with outsourced "developers", you're doing it wrong.
So what is your definition of a personal computer and why doesn't a Chromebook qualify?
The 4s didn't support 4G and CDMA 3G is horribly slow - 1.5mbps. It did support much faster GSM standards like HDSPA.
The iPhone SDK was introduced to developers nine months after the original iPhone was released the App Store came online 3 months later.
You consider the XBox s financial success?
I can't seem to find the SD card slot in any Nexus Phone....
And as far as forced obsolescence, a 2011 iPhone 4s can still run the latest OS. How many Android phones that were sold during thst time period are still officially supported? Apple provided a security patch for the 3GS released 6/2009 on 2/2014. Android manufacturers and Google left security problems on Android phones less than 2 years old.
The iPhone first came to market in the middle of 2007. The App Store came online middle 2008 with the 2nd gen iPhone 3G in 2008 and was compatible with the first iPhone.
Yes because I'm sure Apple invested millions developing the iPid HiFi like MS did on the Zune, Kin, and decades of tablet failures.
The Mac has had a BiOS emulation level since 2006. You can take a 64 bit version of Windows and install it on a 64 bit Mac just by sticking the disk in,
For a 32-bit Mac (like my Core Duo Mac Mini), you have to reformat the disk first to use MBR and then you can just stick a Windows 7 disk in and install it like you would any other PC.
As crazy as it is...a stock install of Windows doesn't support Exchange Email. A stock install of OS X does....
So in that case you bringing up the Mac vs. PC commercials as evidence made no sense since a Mac has been "able" to have Windows installed since 2006. When Apple stopped supporting my 2006 Mac Mini, all I had to do was reformat the hard drive and stick a Windows 7
disk in and it worked perfectedly.
So by your definition a Mac is a PC.
Oh and btw, here is how you put Windows on a ChromeBook.
http://www.howtogeek.com/173353/how-to-run-windows-software-on-a-chromebook/
This is your entire a quote.....
"Show me the PCs running anything but Windows, and I won't call your post a straw man. Microsoft continues to exercise and abuse market power in the PC market, please stick to the issue."
"Able" was nowhere in that quote.
How can you show "a PC running non-Windows" if you define a PC as a computer running Windows?
"Words Mean Things". Slashdot is supposedly a technical website. I would expect a poster to know that PC is a "personal computer".
Oh so since Wikipedia defines a PC as a Windows computer it must be true.....
So you ask for a PC "not running Windows" but any personal computer not running windows is not a PC? What do you think a PC is?
So how is a Chromebook not a personal computer?
So a chrome book is not a PC?
And many others have sense enough to go work for a company that has benefits and resources and make an easy $100K+ a year....
http://pilot.search.dell.com/c...
http://pilot.search.dell.com/l...
There are these things called links....
http://www.dell.com/us/p/chrom...
http://pilot.search.dell.com/a...
So which country are most of your electronic products made in? What about your clothes? your shoes?
So in that case, everyone who buys any product belongs to a cult? Or is it just anyone who buys something that is sold at a high margin?
Again, in a free market where there are literally hundreds of alternatives, the consumer -- all 75 million of them -- chose what they felt would be an "optimal" use of their money.
The per capita income in the US is around $50,000. If someone chose to spend about 1.2% of that income on an iPhone -- something they use multiple times per day, that's capitalism working "optimally". Their is market for a product and a producer willing to create it for a price they both feel is fair.
So in other words there is no basis in reality that Apple's customers are a "cult"....