John C. Devorac sticks head up ass, rolls down street
I know he’s trolling for hits again by pissing off Mac users, but some other twit may then take his demented ravings to heart and decide to wait for the ZunePhone. This could bring an end to civilization as we know it.
“Johnny C” - as he is known in the troll escort business - is an otherwise intelligent curmudgeon and tech-journalist who has most recently unfortunately declared that “Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone.”
Now there’s a really stupid idea, and it’s not the first one he’s secreted, but he’ll get all this attention Mac lovers will spray it all over him until something else such as a troop surge gets our attention. Just a few years ago he suggested that Apple drop OSX and switch to Windows!
I hate to quote him too much - you can go read the rest for yourself.
“The problem here is that while Apple can play the fashion game as well as any company, there is no evidence that it can play it fast enough. These phones go in and out of style so fast that unless Apple has half a dozen variants in the pipeline, its phone, even if immediately successful, will be passé within 3 months.There is no likelihood that Apple can be successful in a business this competitive. Even in the business where it is a clear pioneer, the personal computer, it had to compete with Microsoft and can only sustain a 5% market share.
And its survival in the computer business relies on good margins. Those margins cannot exist in the mobile handset business for more than 15 minutes.”
In fact, Apple can move faster than any company in the world. They probably DO have a dozen variants in the pipeline. In three months the price may drop and they will sell even more. Microsoft became the market leader through evil business practices and because Apple gave it to them in the 90s.
Ok, now get ready for this one:
Even Microsoft itself has troubles with its attempts to get into a small sub segment of the handset business with its operating system.
OOh Microsoft couldn’t do it so NO ONE CAN!
(I’m going to be sick)
Enough! Someone get this man a clue or better yet - ignore him.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Microsoft’s arrogance is once again so obvious. They set aside the security features everyone needs on their OS only for their business editions of Vista because they think that business people are the buyers of leading-edge technology? Business is hardly the market that will purchase the iPhone; “suits” might have an iPod due to its being a desirable music player & status object, but their phones are often not au courant models. Most cells are a tad flimsy, especially the ultra-thin ones. People who want a cell phone made with Apple’s quality, with a feature-set that will probably not be rivaled for a while, they’ll buy the iPhone. People who want to be able to see the darned screen will buy the iPhone. People who want to bring the OS X experience with them will buy the iPhone. Everyday people, not “suits” in Redmond, will determine the iPhone’s success.