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Cloud Cover — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:11:57 GMT

A few weeks ago, a colleague and I were talking about the iPhone and postulating about the catalyst to

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shark47 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:23:31 GMT

"If by relatively you mean illegally, then you're right. They are convicted monopolists after all."

Fair enough. Microsoft abused its monopoly to become a monopoly... wait... wha???

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chuckb84 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:56:06 GMT

"Why in the world would a corporate executive want to use an Ocarina emulator on their Blackberry? Does something like that do anything to increase office productivity or does it just make you look like an absolute tool when you're blowing into the dock connector?"

Is that a parody of an unimaginative Windows drone, or for real?

Once, corporate executives couldn't type. Even now, some don't know how to use the internet. When Macs were first introduced, there was a lot of huffing and puffing about how "real men" use a command line and a keyboard and that a mouse was for wimps.

Times change. Those that don't keep up tend not to survive.

The Ocarina application is just one example of what the iPhone can do, and a good example of the versatility of the device. If you think that you just need a Blackberry with that ridiculous "keyboard", feel free.

BTW, the iPhone is now the second best selling smart phone, so I guess there a lot of "tools" out there who disagree with your assessment of the utility of the device.

Just possibly, you could be wrong....

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agl82 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:48:38 GMT

"Now we're seeing the reverse, with Apple's integrated business model better positioned to deliver the kind of appliance-like quality of experience that people expect from devices like phones and increasingly their computers."

I agree, partially. That's why Microsoft is trying to better integrate the Windows experience with their hardware partners like Sony. We'll see how successful they are in that endeavor. However, I think that Netbook adoption is personally more interesting than that of smartphones or traditional desktop/laptop computers.

Linux has a chance to break into the mainstream (especially with companies like HP designing their own front end for the HP Mini 1000), which might end up making relative dinosaurs like Microsoft and Apple obsolete going forward. Hardware manufacturers can cut costs by huge margins by using Linux as a base on which to build their own customized GUIs.

I'm not advocating open source, since I like my HP laptop with Vista and my brand new iPod Classic quite a bit!

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robertsjoe — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:25:35 GMT

@johnpapola: "Windows won relatively fair and square."

If by relatively you mean illegally, then you're right. They are convicted monopolists after all.

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johnpapola — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:19:03 GMT

@Roberts,

Windows won relatively fair and square. Apple squandered it's advantage in the OS by going for pure margin in the extreme and failing to continue innovation after Jobs left. Microsoft did inherit the IBM monopoly (remember when PC's were called "IBM-compatible"?), but they also had a better business model for that time. Windows provided common

Now we're seeing the reverse, with Apple's integrated business model better positioned to deliver the kind of appliance-like quality of experience that people expect from devices like phones and increasingly their computers.

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agl82 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:11:00 GMT

"Look at these. Blew my mind. This sure makes the point on versatility. This thing is going in directions that no one anticipated. I don't see a "Blackberry" doing anything like this."

Why in the world would a corporate executive want to use an Ocarina emulator on their Blackberry? Does something like that do anything to increase office productivity or does it just make you look like an absolute tool when you're blowing into the dock connector?

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chuckb84 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:55:34 GMT

"Touchscreen isn't an interface without delving into software below the glass. "

Yep.

Look at these. Blew my mind. This sure makes the point on versatility. This thing is going in directions that no one anticipated. I don't see a "Blackberry" doing anything like this.

www.youtube.com/watch

I particularly like the young man playing "Amazing Grace" because, well, I like the song, and he looks so into it.

The iPhone is gonna eat Blackberry for lunch in the business world AND create apps like this, at the same time. Gotta love disruptive change.

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agl82 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:55:29 GMT

"Also, what this is all overlooking is the emerging market jump where the mobile phone is actually outright REPLACING the computer."

Yeah, good luck with that. I just love surfing the internet with a 3.5 inch screen. And I'm sure people can't wait to type term papers with their thumbs, manipulate images the size of a postage stamp with finger gestures, and watch full-length movies with their families huddled around the iPhone! Smartphones are extensions of desktop/laptop computers, not something that will replace them.