Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple 500
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."
Re:Apple is too big and well entrenched to fail (Score:5, Informative)
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.)
Re:Maybe I'm missing something? (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:One issue: (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:Nothing like kicking a man when he's down! (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Hello? (Score:4, Informative)
Yeah, it's now OS X.
The hardware is gone, but the software lives on in a highly capable OS.
Re:Apple is too big and well entrenched to fail (Score:2, Informative)
I don't usually respond to AC's... but Mac market share is not increasing.
Ironic that your post has the factual correctness of an AC. Try to find a quarter when the Mac market share was NOT increasing greater than the overall computer market (ie increasing relative to the market)
http://www.9to5mac.com/30393/apple-breaks-through-10-us-marketshare-for-the-first-time-since-the-early-90s [9to5mac.com]
Re:Disagree (Score:4, Informative)
Microsoft's Market Capitalization: $236.95 Billion
Verizon's Market Capitalization: $100.61 Billion
Bank of America Corporation Market Capitalization: $138.27 Billion
Hewlett Packard Market Capitalization: $99.49 Billion
Bank of China Market Capitalization: ???
cue the drum roll.....
Apple Market Capitalization: $311.23 Billion.
Re:Ignorant comment (Score:2, Informative)
No, actually, it's not an ignorant comment at all. Microsoft spends vastly more on blue sky research than Apple, for example. As does IBM. Take a look at the papers published by just one site, say MS Research in Cambridge or IBM's T J Watson research group. Either site publishes more research than the entirety of Apple.
Most of Apple's 'innovation' comes from elsewhere. For example, their multitouch gestures (now patented by Apple!) were published by Jeff Han several years before Apple's first glimmerings of interest in the area. Apple added a garbage collector to Objective-C, proudly citing 20-year-old research as the basis for their design, when people like David F Bacon (at IBM) have been working on (published) designs for the last decade that make Apple's approach look painfully stupid.
Apple does design, and does it very well, but don't confuse design with research and development.