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____/ Kari Laine on Wednesday 06 Jul 2011 18:32 : \____
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> On 07/06/2011 06:23 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> One who is a teacher should know that Apple is the antithesis of education.
>> It's where learning stops, buttons get removed, everyone everywhere is
>> assimilated to one Unified Way, and merits of alternative routes are actively
>> suppressed.
>>
>> It's deeply shocking that people who promote toys are allowed to impose
>> consumerism on young people whose goal is to make progress, not make lawsuits
>> and lies the way Apple does.
>
> It does not matter what I think about Apple, but...
>
> First I honor Steve Jobs a lot. He is genius. His IQ must be 300...
> He is both technical and business man.
Why did the company almost go bankrupt when he was there earlier?
> I hope he pulls through whatever he going through now. Any news?
>
> On the weekend I was watching videos of Apple & Steve on YouTube.
> They are very informative. I think FOSS people could learn few things
> from Apple and Steve.
OK, be specific. And it's not all about money, it's about engineering.
> One thing I spotted in them would be to concentrate on some market
> segment and take that - not trying to be everything for everybody, which
> does not work. So a segment at a time FOSS could win.
> One of the videos Steve told that the rough patch Apple was going
> through back in time was because they were developing zillions of things
> at the same time. Other one was that success doesn't follow by first
> developing something cool and then trying to figure out how to sell it.
> It starts when you know the customer's need and fill it.
That's not a very technology-oriented approach though, is it?
> On the other hand my suspicion for Apple are deeply rooted.
>
> 1a. It is proprietary.
> 1b. Microsoft financed them back few years so that they won't go out of
> business.
> 2. Steve don't want to compete with MS head on - which might be wise.
> 3. Steve took whole BSD kernel for free and Apple does not exactly give
> much back. Or if someone knows otherwise please tell.
> 4. newest is this Nortel patent deal. Consortium includes both Microsoft
> and Apple....
>
> I plan to learn iOS when I have time....probably somewhere round
> 2020.... maybe it solves itself automatically iOS or I might be dead...
iOS -- like iDevices -- is a monopoly. Had Apple licensed it, there would arguably
be no Android. Apple is repeating its mistakes from the 80s/90s.
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~~ Best of wishes
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