Smartphones: It's the Software, Stupid! [View article]
Smartphones: It's the Developers' Ecosystem, Stupid!
- the only vibrant App marketplace: Apple - 90% of developer attention: Apple - dominant in current game development: Apple - dominant in developer revenue: Apple - fairest marketplace: Apple - most efficient, easiest, (and free) SDK: Apple - dominant game marketer: Apple - the only micro payments platform: Apple - etc etc etc
There's only one Apple when viewed from this perspective.
Apple buying Sony is a bad idea. The 35,000 employees at Apple would be outnumbered by the 100,000 ??? at Sony. This would threaten Apple's unique and incredible culture for focused excellence in all areas of business.
Apple's culture is the goose that laid the golden eggsssssss and you don't want to mess with what they have.
Apples to Apples: Will History Repeat Itself as Android Gains on the iPhone? [View article]
How long will it take the 'rest of us (them!)' to match half the performance (power and battery life) in that monster?
2011 headline:
Apple Dominates and Introduces Massively Impactful Mobile Computing to the World
Smartphones: It's the Software, Stupid! [View article]
- the only vibrant App marketplace: Apple
- 90% of developer attention: Apple
- dominant in current game development: Apple
- dominant in developer revenue: Apple
- fairest marketplace: Apple
- most efficient, easiest, (and free) SDK: Apple
- dominant game marketer: Apple
- the only micro payments platform: Apple
- etc etc etc
There's only one Apple when viewed from this perspective.
Game over. Set. Match.
Apple: iPhone Now Accounts for 50% of Mobile Web Traffic [View article]
There's only the one iPhone 3G, unless you think the memory 8GB vs 16 GB makes 2 models.
The Ongoing Smartphone Revolution [View article]
Apple's culture is the goose that laid the golden eggsssssss and you don't want to mess with what they have.