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Steve Jobs in Opening Interview Session at D8 Conference
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i agreed with steve's points and disappointed by google's endeavor to get into this market without any levels of understanding as steve does. from steve's iAd comment, i think he implied that google's search w/ ad is not the way he sees the future.
I sense Steve is working on a full TV with iphone os andTV built into it.
7:56PM Steve: So all you can do is ADD a box to the TV. You just end up with a table full of remotes, a cluster of boxes... and that's what we have today. The only way that's going to change is if you tear up the set top box, give it a new UI, and get it in front of consumers in a way they're going to want it. The TV is going to lose in our eyes until there is a better go to market strategy... otherwise you're just making another TiVo.
7:54PM Q: Hi, I'm from Hillcrest Labs... do you think it's time to throw out the interface for TV? When will Apple do something there?
A: The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go to market strategy. The TV industry has a subsidized model that gives everyone a set top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us... ask Google in a few months.
ohhhhhh
Holy Crapola..
I just figured out what apple's strategy is. They are going to make the i-Mac a touch screen but keep a keyboard with it. When you need the kind of information we normally look for, ie: restaurants, concert tickets, maps, etc. you will open the app on the touch screen portion of the i-Mac and then type in the address. This will keep you in the app and out of Google. It will then make the i-Ad platform HUGE and keep people from actually opening a safari browser for your standard search.
Apple is going to screw Google by completely changing the way we search on both the mobile platform and via desktop computing by whittling away at Google at this cross road.
This is absolutely brilliant. Kudos to you Steve. Once all the Apple computing platforms can share Apps, then it's over for Google because if you can buy the App on your desktop (i-Mac) and then downscale the resolution for your i-Phone and i-Pad, you will buy it once and have it on all three machines. Then, when you turn on your next generation AppleTV, you will also have full remote functionality..
Steve, you are f*cking brilliant.
Holy Crapola..
I just figured out what apple's strategy is. They are going to make the i-Mac a touch screen but keep a keyboard with it. When you need the kind of information we normally look for, ie: restaurants, concert tickets, maps, etc. you will open the app on the touch screen portion of the i-Mac and then type in the address. This will keep you in the app and out of Google. It will then make the i-Ad platform HUGE and keep people from actually opening a safari browser for your standard search.
Apple is going to screw Google by completely changing the way we search on both the mobile platform and via desktop computing by whittling away at Google at this cross road.
This is absolutely brilliant. Kudos to you Steve. Once all the Apple computing platforms can share Apps, then it's over for Google because if you can buy the App on your desktop (i-Mac) and then downscale the resolution for your i-Phone and i-Pad, you will buy it once and have it on all three machines. Then, when you turn on your next generation AppleTV, you will also have full remote functionality..
Steve, you are f*cking brilliant.
OH, yeah and it will dramatically speed up searching because it will be more tactile and keep all the information within Apple's ecosystem.
Well, It's clear you have made your choice, which is what we have been telling you the whole time, BEFORE you said you were waiting for the HP blah, blah. So now, it's apparent that you are just trolling. That's ok I guess, just so you know that's what you are doing.
When you give people all the choices in the world, you end up with Windows Vista. You get asked every time you do something if you're ok with this, or do you want to allow that. Apple is, and has always been about creating an exceptional user experience, and part of doing that, is letting go of areas of concern.
Yeah, you or I could easily head into settings, and turn on or off Flash based on our own personal desires. But would my parents know or care to do that? Probably not, but they are definitely going to start complaining when the battery dies after 2 hours even though the guy in the store told them 10. They ARE going to tell other people that the idea that macs crash less is BS when the browser on their iPad keeps crashing because of buggy third party software.
It's all about protecting the experience, and right or not, Apple is an experienced leader when it comes to this. I own a Nexus 1, with Android 2.2 installed, and I have my 3GS with the 4.0 beta on it. As much as I want Android to evolve and become a serious competitor to iPhone so we'll all win in the end, it just isn't there and I choose my iPhone 100% of the time. The whole idea of "Open" that Android is based around is going to create the fragmentation and types of problems that Apple is explicitly trying to avoid with iPhone.
[Edit] - And as far as CHOICE goes, you have the choice to not buy Apple products, and purchase from competitors.
Yeah, you or I could easily head into settings, and turn on or off Flash based on our own personal desires. But would my parents know or care to do that? Probably not, but they are definitely going to start complaining when the battery dies after 2 hours even though the guy in the store told them 10. They ARE going to tell other people that the idea that macs crash less is BS when the browser on their iPad keeps crashing because of buggy third party software.
It's all about protecting the experience, and right or not, Apple is an experienced leader when it comes to this. I own a Nexus 1, with Android 2.2 installed, and I have my 3GS with the 4.0 beta on it. As much as I want Android to evolve and become a serious competitor to iPhone so we'll all win in the end, it just isn't there and I choose my iPhone 100% of the time. The whole idea of "Open" that Android is based around is going to create the fragmentation and types of problems that Apple is explicitly trying to avoid with iPhone.
[Edit] - And as far as CHOICE goes, you have the choice to not buy Apple products, and purchase from competitors.
Ha, that made me think about the Budweiser advertisement when they order a pizza.
Well yes, if 90% if net video used flash that may be a valid point. Sadly however that stat is just a teeny tiny bit out...
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/01/h-264-66-percent-web-video/
Short version, a decent estimate based on encoding.com data is about 66% of video is being encoded in H.264 at this point with around 40% of ALL video on the net coming from You Tube. The exact percentage may be off but it's very clear that material that's ONLY available in flash makes up nowhere near 90% of web video.
In less then 10 years a piece of aluminium and glass got the same power of the first iMac. by 2020 we'll have a tablet with the power of the computer we have now.
Yeah the speech where Jobs tells college kids at their graduation that "you don't need college...look at me!"
Money resources is much different than people resources. You would be surprised just how hard it is to find good talent.
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Post of the thread. Apple is always about the user experience, from the lesser number of model choices to the done-in-5-minutes set up to adding apps to actually using the device. That necessarily means fewer choices than some competitors, and that means apple will never be the right choice for people who want total control over the parts, settings, options, etc. And that's fine - there are choices for those people. I just don't get why they complain about not being something that they never have been and don't aspire to be.
ninethirty said:
Post of the thread. Apple is always about the user experience, from the lesser number of model choices to the done-in-5-minutes set up to adding apps to actually using the device. That necessarily means fewer choices than some competitors, and that means apple will never be the right choice for people who want total control over the parts, settings, options, etc. And that's fine - there are choices for those people. I just don't get why they complain about not being something that they never have been and don't aspire to be.
About the suicide rates... I'd imagine a lot of them just did it because living in mainland China sucks (you know, with the corrupt totalitarianism and all)... now get back to work
The problem with keep supporting these outdated and buggy technologies is that they continue to live and ruin the whole experience. Floppy Drives are a prime example. if iMacs didn't ditch them, they probably would have been a part of all desktops for some more years. Aren't the world a better place without them?
I am not sure of the analogy but you need to get rid of the dead branches to keep the tree alive and green. Somebody needs to take a bold decisions. We should be happy that Steve took it as he always had.
The basic problem with Adobe is that they refused to do anything with anything (Flash especially) until they were ditched. Just consider, they took a decade to come up with a cocoa version of their CS productivity suite. They took almost four years to come up with a beta version of mobile Flash player. Can anybody with some common sense rely on them? Can Apple risk that their platform development will be dependent on when Adobe choose to do so?
Ask yourself honestly and you will see the answer. Adobe needs to ask themselves what they would have done if they were in Steve's shoe.
You have choice. Go and buy another phone or laptop or netbook.
You want all phone manufacturers to have all those OSs (android, me goo, bada, windows mobile 7 etc.) installed and the user will choose which one to use? Certainly not.
if you buy macbook, you do not cry for lack of Windows, do you?
Adobe underestimated and ignored the wrong guy, simply put.
Wow. All cars were trucks? Take a history lesson sometime, Steve.
How unfortunate that the head of Apple now looks at PCs as "trucks."
Bad analogy as in fact Apple offers choice there - it's called Boot Camp!!! So you see Apple can play nice at times and when it's financial interests are not imperiled (Flash cutting into App Store game sales etc)
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Huh? That's a duplicate answer. What is the actual response to the Next 10 Years question?
Huh? That's a duplicate answer. What is the actual response to the Next 10 Years question?
TV. Blah.
Videos. Give me control. I don't want to be forced to sit through previews and ads. If I bought the video I get to choose how and when to skip ahead, etc.
"iPhone is the first phone where we separated the carrier from the hardware. They worry about the network, while we worry about the phone."
The iPhone is the first (and only) ever mobile phone that is locked to a single carrier in Finland. Hopefully the last. You know
just sayin .
The iPhone is the first (and only) ever mobile phone that is locked to a single carrier in Finland. Hopefully the last
. You know
just sayin .Hardly a tough interview, with Walt Mossberg, a huge Apple fan, acting as the "interviewer". The whole video was a promotion piece for SJ to publicise his views. The woman was unfortunately useless for, well, anything - she couldn't even sit-there-and-look-pretty.
That's his job as CEO, fair enough, but let's not pretend that this is more insightful than that.
If you want to see an interview, watch Frost's BBC interview of Nixon.
That's his job as CEO, fair enough, but let's not pretend that this is more insightful than that.
If you want to see an interview, watch Frost's BBC interview of Nixon.