Now, over the years, what I've seen is just a bunch of companies focused on copying things and bringing zero innovation.
When the iPhone came out, the entire industry changed. That is NOT something easy to do. From night to day, Apple was not the "iPod maker" anymore, it was a serious threat to all the mobile makers and all that market segment. From that day to the next years that followed, all I've seen was more and more companies trying to copy that idea, since they all failed to do anything for decades.
I would like to thank:
- Nokia for your crappy phones. Stop suing companies that innovated while you let me in the dark for every time I needed to make a synchronization and not bringing anything really exciting for 10 years;
- Google for trying to dominate the world. Here is a hint, beta programs may save your ass in sues due to not being a "full product" yet, but honestly, it is starting to piss me off. Most of the things that you do don't bring that awesome experience and we fall back to our old applications and computers LOCALLY. Please make SOMETHING really good and stop making TONS of ****** things;
- Microsoft for making the biggest monopoly of office and home users ever seen. Now please, put that money to real development and give us something that YOU came up with. Stop copying Apple's OS in every major aspect of the UI;
- Apple for shaking the grounds of those who thought they had everything already. Please protect your intellectual property and keep innovating. For your devices just one hint: open more APIs and allow more plugins in applications like Safari and devices like Apple TV.
Honestly, it scares the heck out of me to see all the companies copying and trying to shut Apple down. Why? Simple, because Apple was the only company who made a computer I enjoy using and a phone which I had not wished to change after 6 months and they keep doing it.
If it was not for Apple, we could be still typing lines of code in our computers and using that ***** phone with snakes on it.
For 15 years I struggled with stupid products. For the past 3 years I've been enjoying content and not worrying so much about making my computer work without viruses, which phone I should get next since this one is already falling apart and how would I play that movie on my TV.
Honestly, the "kiss" (keep it simple, stupid) still works and very well. Call me silly, call me stupid, but I'm happy, and that is what it counts for me.
For all the companies not creating and just copying, not innovating and just buying, not building and just attacking, please, go f- yourself.
It's available at http://www.youtube.com/googledevelopers#p/c/02292AD8CFFE1349
