Comments on: Firefox director says Apple is “looking to bypass the web”

By: yfan

yfan — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:09:58 +0000

This is not just a bad idea, Mac is trying to replicate its iPhone market on the desktop, which has very little chance of working. Not to mention the iPhone has been getting its behind kicked by the explosive growth of Android. The real reason apps are tremendously successful on the mobile platform is the small screen and keyboard sizes. People do not want to spend time typing web addresses on a pop-up keyboard, so it’s much easier to simply launch an app. Creating an app is better for a business for that reason, and for the reason of making the experience user friendly.

This is not the case for desktop. Ergo we see iPad sales lagging behind expectations. Once there is a big enough screen and a comfortable enough keyboard, separate apps for everything are just clutter whereas starting one web browser and having all the “apps” residing on the Internet being able to be accessed through it instead of having to close one app and start another all the time. It’s really that simple. What Apple is doing is going backwards. We used to have/already have “apps” for the desktop, and people have moved to browser based productivity. We used to do apps for email (remember when you needed Outlook just to get email?), apps for watching videos online, before flash improvements and HTML 5 came along), apps for this, apps for that.

Apple is thinking this would give their desktop computers additional market share. The actual result, I believe, will be quite the contrary.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:50:51 +0000

Apple is doing what they criticized so much on Microsoft.

By: steve pozz

steve pozz — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:33:31 +0000

if steve jobs didn’t use drugs that were in a ‘beta’ stage, the aids ridden freak wouldn’t have been around to sell iphones to chicks

By: Sickenly

Sickenly — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:33:55 +0000

Jobs is just firing all weapons to try to obliterate android and google. These are exciting times when you get to watch a titan fall.

By: madbohem

madbohem — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:08:14 +0000

@wayne

at one level, i think Apple makes great products. I also definitely think the tech world needs Steve Jobs game changing skills. But no matter how great Apple innovates, it also strangles itself, and its user’s choices, and in the end, no matter arguable better the product might be, something else ends up dominating. We are entering an era were the concepts of Net Neutrality and Interoperability should be concepts the voting public should be aware, but sadly thats not true.

If i buy a car and want to paint it pink, change the rims, redo the interior i have the right. What Apple is striving for is to take away those abilities from those who purchase their products. Worse, keeping with the car analogy, you would need a proprietary infrastructure of roads, highways and freeways to drive it anywhere. Thats the goal of Apple and why Apple ends up losing all its initiative from innovation over time and settles for tightly controlled small market shares.

Want to know more about what I think? then Google Open Letter to Steve Jobs’ Ego

By: alan

alan — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:55:03 +0000

Apple = new AOL ?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:53:08 +0000

That’s right, the sky is falling! Macintosh computer users will be able to buy apps online from an ecommerce store (on the web) to use on their computers. The developers will no doubt create lots of useful and entertaining programs, hoping that Mac users will want to purchase them. Some of these programs may repackage or otherwise provide information also available on the internet. Yes Apple will vet each of these apps prior to releasing them for sale, and Apple will use its own set of guidelines to decide whether to offer the app or not. If this means that fewer people visit the internet through the use of a browser, so what? Why is that the end of the world? Well I guess it is troubling if you’re in the business of providing browsers to users. Any app not available on the Mac App Store can be sold direct to the users, of course, saving the 30% fee Apple collects through its store. This is a good idea for Apple, its customers and its developers.