Comments on: closed platforms versus open platforms

By: Joseph Logan

Joseph Logan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:31:39 +0000

“Until mobile devices compete mainly on price (probably a decade from now), tight vertical integration will produce the best device and is likely the best strategy.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/should-apple-be-more-open-dixon-2010-1

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:24:13 +0000

There you go with your historical perspective.

By: Joseph Logan

Joseph Logan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:21:26 +0000

Goddamn binary shit.

By: AJJB

AJJB — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:21:01 +0000

This is the first discussion that is really hitting the nail on the head. I’m a geek and I enjoy my geekdom, not just about computers, I really like to figure stuff out. Naturally I build my own computers and I compile my own OS. But my interests also touch design and ease of use. I should be using a Mac, but I don’t. Ever since I first saw the 20th Aniversary Mac in a Batman movie as a kid, I wanted to have one, but there is always something holding me back.

I need a tad more openess. I always have the feeling Apple is succeeding 90% of the way, in comes a business guy and screws up the last 10%, therefore ruining it.

That being said, Apple products are not made with me/us in mind. My mom would certainly love the iPad, not saying she is old, but she likes things that just work. I feel the same way about politics and most products out there, I’m not part of their target group, but that is for another discussion.

By: Cindy Scroggins

Cindy Scroggins — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:04:06 +0000

You have your introverts, and you have your extroverts.

You have your Leos, and you have your Virgos.

You have your Mac folks, and you have your PC folks.

You have your tomatoes, and you have your tomatoes.

wait

By: Andrew Simone

Andrew Simone — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:02:05 +0000

poor word choice on my part, Lucy. I didn’t mean to suggest that technologies doesn’t make our lives better (although, not all technology qua technology does), but that technology is not some sort of cultural panacea.

By: Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:48:08 +0000

Doesn’t technology make our lives better? Try arguing against that to someone hooked up to a kidney dialysis machine. No need to be secretive, methinks.

By: Andrew Simone

Andrew Simone — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:46:48 +0000

That’s close to right, Lucy. Although, Linux has an elegance to it once you know the dance.

And thanks!

By: Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:45:33 +0000

Would they be related to the die hard crack users? Also, happy birthday Andrew!

By: Andrew Simone

Andrew Simone — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:44:23 +0000

Sheila, it’s the secret hope that technology will make our lives better and that Apple has the ability to usher in a sort of techno-eschaton. I am not the least bit joking.