ColinToal

Apple Warns iPhone Competitors: Don't Rip Us Off

Is it 1985 again ?

Is AAPL actually threatening to sue the competition over gimmicks that they claim they 'invented' when there is years and years of prior art saying they didn't ? I mean multi-touch for scaling photos is not so far from the Trash Can/Recycle bin is it ? Am I missing something ? Did they learn nothing in the last 20 years ?

I'm looking forward to the iPhone being an also ran to the OHSA, the same way the mac was an also ran to the PC.

Closed architectures are a compromise that customers are forced to make until a competing open alternative displaces it and litigation is always a poor substitute for innovation.

This is why Apple is cyclical. They do something bold and innovative, then they get greedy and lazy and close it off, and then they get beaten by open competitors and they cry to the courts until the crisis forces them to start again.

Good innovator - lousy competitor.

Deja vu all over again.

Apple's Walmart Deal Will Effectively Kill Google's Android

I agree. WalMart is a brand cache killer. iPhone in WalMart looks to me like is a short term, greed play.

It will be interesting though, to see the iPhone brand morph into the "George" brand. I wonder if the iPhone carrying set will rush for the exits when their phone is no longer jewellery.

Plus - who is going into an Apple Store now ? MacGenius classes ? Really ? Is that why people go ?

On Dec 10 07:38 PM Greg Skidmore wrote:

> I find this idea of selling in wmt curious. I think it risks alienating
> Apples cult like following. I remember reading Malcolm Gladwell's
> book Tipping Point and he discusses when Airwalk started selling
> their shoes in main stream dept. stores. Killed the brand immediately.
> What made Airwalks cool is you had to buy them in skate or bmx shops.
> Is apple going to make itself uncool by selling in wmt?
>