When the Macintosh was launched in 1984, it was not an immediate success. It took a good while to catch on. Apple’s big seller up to early nineties was the Apple II line of computers. And what was not to like about the Apple II? It was expandable, user-friendly, programmable, tons of software, great support – then Apple pulled the plug to focus on the Mac line of computers. Nothing but the GUI and mouse from now on. Tim Cook has now now tipped Apple’s hand that the Mac may now be on it’s way out in favor of mobile devices such as the upcoming iPad and of course it’s popular iPhone/iTouch line up. If you thought the outcry for the demise of the Apple II was huge – this is going to be a tsunami. This will probably be a very slow phase out, like say three to seven years from now, depending “conditioning” of market. If Apple gets out of personal computing hardware market in favor of mobile devices, that could mean OS X might be made portable to non-Apple PCs for programming purposes – I can’t imagine doing any useful programming work on the iPad without hooking up the peripheral keyboard (COSTS WAY EXTRA) right off the bat. And Apple likes to control the users (and programmers) experience very rigidly.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Will The Mac Join The Apple II?
Labels: Apple II, death of Mac, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, mobile devices, Tim Cook
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
iTouch usage outpacing iPhone usage in growth
Says so right here. I’ll make a prediction. By Dec 2012, the Tablet of God’s usage will be outpacing both iPhone and iTouch combined.
Labels: best is yet to come, iPhone, iTouch, why Apple is great
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Square debuts
Twitter founder’s unveils a new credit card reader today for mobile devices. More in the NYTimes here. I can already imagine all the abuses that are gonna rack up with this thing. But why rain on his parade? Know how Google is a verb? In two years, people will say “Square me up with one of those,” when they hit the hot dog vendor. You read it here first.
Labels: credit card reader, iPhone, iTouch, new verb, Square
Monday, November 30, 2009
Start your engines, Cyber Shoppers
Apple store online has lots of great bargains, today only – why aren’t I getting paid to do this again?
I want a new iTouch, somebody, OK? Is that too much, to ask?
Labels: Apple, iTouch, online shoppers, Retail