John Watkins

Apple, Microsoft, Google: Far from Coercive Monopolies

Ayn Rand?
As if she were some kind of authority on the subject?
You're pathetic

Jonathan Ive: More Valuable to Apple than Steve Jobs?

You have a understandably antiquated idea of design (most everyone does.) Its not Ives' industrial design skill that makes Apple products great any more than its is Jobs' skills as a CEO. There are LOTS of talented people at Apple doing LOTS of talented work. Some contribute more than others, but the secret sauce is not industrial design, but attention to the whole enchilada. Any one of the parts is replaceable to a lesser or greater extent.

6 Things Apple's Not Doing Right

Why are there so many clueless articles on Seeking Alpha?
Are these people paid for their articles? If Mr. Bapcha was, I want to get in on the action. The only difference is that I actually understand AAPL and Apple products.

iPhone Lockup and Apple's True Colors

Your article is poorly thought out and you ignore Apple's past actions in similar situations. YOUR true colors are best shown when you say,

"Apple could believe that the mobile market, unlike the PC market, is best served by an OS under strict control of the corporate mothership.
More likely - Apple is driven by the profit motive it once ridiculed, preferring the walled garden strategies (and the lucrative revenue schemes they promise) of exclusive carrier bundling with revenue sharing as well as fee-based application licensing."

What a set of false choices and how inane!
Of course the OS is under strict control. It has to run a regulated device. And of course Apple is driven by the profit motive! Since when have they ridiculed it? They are in business to make money. And their strategy is to make lots of it by offering a superior product experience of high value. This necessitates control by them and their partners. But that's hardly a "walled garden." There are thousands of phones available in the market. If you want this one accept that is has some limits on it (as do all the rest.) That hardly represents a monopolistic hook-winking of the customer.

Certainly since OS X, and long before, Apple has taken a very friendly approach to open standards and 3rd party developers. On stand-alone platforms they have been consistent in not going out of their way to allow or disallow hacking, i.e., the iPod is quite hackable but not supported. But a cell phone is intrinsically quite different, mainly because the device is licensed by the FCC. Additionally, it has only been on the market a few short months, and Apple has a partnership with ATT. For the moment anyone can create web based apps. In the future I'm sure you will see a restricted but extensive SDK. But where did you get the idea Apple should be required to give you unrestricted access to the whole enchilada?