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Smartphones: The Mobile Industry Is About to Get 'Blown Apart'

Love the open source vs closed source argument that has erupted and Brewer's rant (at bottom) is fairly accurate.

IMHO, here is what I am old enough to remember.

Apple was by far the best in PC software. IBM was the PC and mainframe king. MS had money and resources from IBM to create a Mainframe OS, so they copied the Apple OS at the same time. IBM let MS have the PC OS without a fight, since the OS was Apple's big advantage over IBM and nobody cloned Apple hardware, just IBM.

Apple sued until MS changed the OS enough to pass copyright infringement. (Steven Jobs, "the first time we sued, they hadn't even changed our trash can" to a recycle bin yet!).

Then MS used Windows to eliminate Word Perfect and Netscape Navigator. MS had Word and Explorer in place when windows came out and by the time Word Perfect and Netscape Navigator were ready for Windows.............we... wants to re-learn more software (even if it is better software).

Meanwhile Apple and IBM were destroyed in the PC clone wars. IBM mainframes were also destoyed by open source (Java?).

Jobs re-invented Apple and IBM re-invented themselves into a consulting and services firm.

Sony invented Beta and VHS technology.....Beta was better quality and smaller tapes so they kept Beta for themselves and were swallowed by their VHS clones.

Open source always wins because it is one player (no matter how good) against everybody else, but it is not a good business model.

IMHO Microsoft markets and manipulates.....they do not create....they are now copying ERP systems and have 80% of the smallest end market.........will THEIR time end soon????? I don't know......they can still copy, but control???



On May 19 02:37 PM brewer wrote:

> Don't be stupid about 'openness' it's not about who you sell software
> to, so any know-nothing assembler (Dell/HP/Sony, ANY PC manufacturer
> except Apple) can put it on yet another generic device. It's about
> using open standards. Microsoft is the CLOSED one, and they have
> tricked a lot of dullards into believing they are OPEN. Good one
> for them. Microsoft is the one that takes a truly open standard,
> like HTML for crying out loud, and 'embraces and extends' it so that
> it doesn't work as it should. Since they have a huge chunk of the
> market, eveyone has to work around it. None of Microsoft's software
> supports open standards. Everyone has to support Microsoft's defacto
> (not actual) standards because, up to this point at least, they have
> been the proverbial 800 lb gorilla.
>
> That is changing. Vista 7 will be a flop. It's not hard to see this,
> nothing much has changed. Even Ballmer himself has admitted it's
> just another version of Vista. It's time for Apple to come out with
> a low end model, that will be when the 'other shoe' drops.

Not Much Juice from Apple's Earnings

Hang in there Jeff. There is another round of mortgage resets about to start.

Justice will be served.......to the wicked.