Steve is very disingenuous. Saying "we don' have the resources others have" (when commenting on why Apple doesn't support Flash)....are you kidding me? The 2nd highest market cap in the world and over $40 billion in cash .... this guy gets too much of a free ride when he's interviewed this is total BS!!!!
Resources isn't purely cash. You need to have smart engineers of all kinds in order to produce great stuff, not to mention you need to be able to actually create the material or if you're not the creator, you need to be able to have somebody who can produce the technology for you.
It doesn't matter if Apple has a trillion dollars, it won't get them anywhere if they don't have the engineers to pull it off, and if they don't have the actual technology on the market to be able to buy them.
Next question is, if Apple have the money, why not hire more thousands of engineers then? Just because this country can produce 10,000-50,000 college grads in engineering fields every year does not mean every one of them is capable of doing it. They still need experience and further skills to pull off the engineering smarts that Apple needs. Apple won't hire any random engineers, they need highly creative person who can think on their own and also have an engineering background, that alone is very hard to find.
You can train a person all you want, but if his creativity is not there, he'll never meet your expectation of being a capable engineer.
Not necessarily. What's the point of building a search engine? To sell advertising, right? Only way to make money. Now that you have a large number of people stuck in the app world (iphone, ipad, AppleTV maybe) maybe his ultimate goal is to actually get people off of using a browser at all - in the device space. Serve up ads using iAd within the aps. Should be more money there than google's keyword ads ...
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The search engine is all about the AI behind it (some AI, we call them crawlers or indexers, they need to be able to understand what they're doing), Apple just need the AI to produce the advertisement, they only need an inventory of their partners and use the AI to match up the ADs to the content of the application. They don't need a search engine and they don't need to go into the search business to do this, just the AI itself.
$42 billion in cash is poor? Apple can afford all the R&D it wants to....I think you should learn to be a tad perspicacious my friend .... the reality distortion field is getting to you
Read above, cash is not resource in all itself.
"Steve: We had a rule that said you can't defame other people."
great .... he became an arbiter of free speech and censor extraordinaire
I didn't say it was unconstitutional ... I'm saying he's a censor!!!!! The guy won a bloody Pulitzer Prize for his work ----
It's a private store owned by a company, there's no censorship issue here. The company can censor all they want.
Also there are laws about defaming people in general as well, Apple just cuts out both ends instead. Nobody getting defamed in their app store and nobody can defame anybody. It's a good policy. It doesn't matter how many awards a person wins, it doesn't entitle them from defaming other people and doesn't entitle them for a spot in a private store just because he won something.
well is Apple's platform (admittedly a gated community by any definition) a technological platform or a platform where the merchant (and that's what Apple is -- a middleman, a merchant in it for it's 30% cut) is going to be an arbiter of morals and taste?
The App store is a store, they can pick and choose what to display in their store. Simple as that. People don't like it, they can go to another store.
TV built into it.
