The epitaph for Nokia, Samsung, RIM - Apple made stuff people actually wanted to buy and was easy to use.
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The epitaph for Nokia, Samsung, RIM - Apple made stuff people actually wanted to buy and was easy to use.
Yeah, thats what I was getting at, like the mobile market for example.
Windows Mobile ( Still miss it ), RIM, and Palm were totally awesome for a business/power user. But they were WAY to expensive/complex for most people to bother with.
The iPhone managed to get away from that, it didn't have anything " new " per say. But it was a bunch of stuff that already existed in a nice package that was not only affordable, SUPER easy to use.
What Apple did with the first iPhone/iOS 1 was they brought a completely new touch-centric functionality with gestures like pinch-to-zoom and inertial scrolling. They limited the functionality to just the stock apps they shipped with, like about 10. But the point is what limited functionality it had worked beautifully. From there Apple would build the functionality big time, most notably adding the App Store. So you see, Apple did it the right way. You start with a solid foundation and build up from there.
How exactly did he help kill Flash? By the time the Flash furor became public, Android was said to be "blowing Apple out of the water" and that it was a matter of time before Apple became a niche product, just like Mac vs. PC. Everyone expected that the presence of Flash on Android would strike the death knell to Apple.
No, Jobs did not kill Flash. Adobe killed Flash by refusing to make it a better product. They're the ones who expected the presence of Flash to cream Apple. In fact, the Adobe CEO said on TV that he expected Android to beat iOS in tablet just like it did in phones, which is questionable in itself since Apple still makes money hand over fist in smartphones. Evidently, Flash wasn't enough to make people jump ship from Apple.
Steve Jobs did not kill Flash.
He was right: 90% of my iPad use is in the bathroom, i don't watch movies on a small screen i have a 65" panasonic plasma for that and i certainly don't read. Last book i red was in school, 15 years ago lol.
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He was right: 90% of my iPad use is in the bathroom, i don't watch movies on a small screen i have a 65" panasonic plasma for that and i certainly don't read. Last book i red was in school, 15 years ago lol.
In your case, he may be right. For others, he is wrong. Too small of a population here to get any good stats.
I think people should read more. The TV has turned the masses to non-thinkers. If Jobs thought people didn't read, why did he come out with iBooks or Newsstand?
I'm not saying he was the only person who helped kill it, but not allowing it on iOS and this open letter certainly helped matters.
Flash may have lingered a while longer on mobile devices if iOS had supported it.