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."

Apple is too big and well entrenched to fail

[Anonymous Coward]

As of now, there is really no way Apple can fail. They have a virtual monopoly on the MP3 player market. Smartphone makers are fighting to the death for the scraps the iPhone leaves behind. Tablet makers were struck off the books before the race even begun. Even desktop computing is swinging Apple's way with more people moving to Macs.

Just the Apple name is good enough to sell anything, reality distortion field or no.

So, regardless of Jobs, there is realistically no way Apple can ever fail as a company.

Re:Disagree

[nibbles2004]

Iphones are not cool, there too ubiquitous, when the binman has one, it's no longer the phone to desire, my N900 that's cool, only 5 people have them

Re:Overtaken...

[jellomizer]

Still if you choose an open platform chances are when it is time to upgrade or migrate data. The stuff you had became out of date. So migrating your data isn't clean and heck the cables could have changed to a new open standard. By keeping a closed standard you are really loosing out on the Hacker market, and the 3rd party cloning market... (like netgear) who want to make money off of another company expensive R&D

Re:Hello?

[ceoyoyo]

The prototype didn't do so well, but there are an awful lot of the production model around. All those silver notebooks with glowing apples on the cover.