The Macalope did a double take this calendar week as Vivek Wadhwa somehow do to get almost the same thought process piece published on two unlike sites . Turns out he ’s in two ways serious about how Apple want to licence iOS .
First , Wadhwa peddled this already expose the right way in the case idea toTiger Beat In The Valley .
“ Why Apple needs to liberate iOS.”(Tip o ’ the antlers toShawn King . )
And all of its earnings !
The vexing thing is this is neither an original mind nor even snug to a honorable one .
Apple reported lackluster net profit on Tuesday as the company ’s iPhone sales continue to slip . The numbers make it clear that the future of the consumer product behemoth is no longer in its consumer products . The fix ? Apple should release a interlingual rendition of iOS for non - Apple machine .
Translation ? I AM A SPACE MAN WHO HAS ONLY JUST ARRIVED TO YOUR PLANET AND HAS NO cognition OF thing PAST OR PRESENT .
This suggestion will seem like unorthodoxy to the mark ’s loyalists …
You misspelled “ idiocy ” . It will seem like idiocy .
( Wadhwa hasa rails disc of using the word “ heresy”in wish to Apple customers because , you see , it ’s a religion . Also , in that clause , Wadhwa explains how Microsoft is winning via the clip - honored custom of hearing how Microsoft is winning from Microsoft and Microsoft OEMs . )
… but it may be necessary for the achiever of the caller .
Apple only made $ 42.4 billion in receipts and $ 7.8 billion in gain ! WHEN WILL THE BLEEDING catch ? !
Imagine those Samsung , LG , and Xiaomi smartphones accept an original Apple operating system on them rather than the imitations they are presently carry .
Imagine it run like turd because it ’s not optimize in the same fashion it can be on iPhones because Apple controls the computer architecture and then wonder if they even want it when they ’d have to pay agency more than they do for Android and Apple would n’t let them junk it up with their crapware . ideate the ludicrously low margins Apple would have in a package licensing model . Imagine the confusing ragbag of exploiter experience . Imagine shopping for these devices at Best Buy .
opine all that and you have a small glimpse of the future of horseshit that Wadhwa wants us to meet through .
Now imagine the fact that Wadhwa wrote a wholeotherarticle on the same theme and we still have to wade throughthat . Ugh .
“ Apple , it ’s time to license the operating system and undo the mistake of 30 years ago . ”(Tip o ’ the antlers toPhilip Speicher . )
As John Gruberput it : “ Yes , these last 30 years have shown that this strategy is fearful for Apple . ”
History is n’t on the button ingeminate itself , but Apple is at another crossroad . Its invention engine has essentially stalled …
No , you could debate that the car has slowed down , but it has n’t stalled . And you ’re suggested fix to this slowing is to pull over in the middle of the desert andlight the car on fire .
Wadhwa starts this one by give us a history lesson about the nineties , which is about as relevant to now as the lord and tenant husbandry organisation in Medieval France . really , maybe less so because the Medieval lord and tenant structure does jolly much describes Uber . The matter is , you ca n’t make money licensing an manoeuver system any longer . By give their operating systems aside , Apple and Google destroyed Microsoft ’s business model . And the amount that Apple could make up on extra service would be negligible equate to what they ’d fall behind in hardware taxation .
One has to marvel what would have happened if Apple had taken Gates ’s advice [ to license the Mac operating system ] .
really , no ! You do n’t have to wonder , because Apple did just that in the mid-1990s and it suck ! or else of inundate the market with punk , downscale devices that Apple was n’t going to make , Mac licensee made fast , mid - range clone that vie with Apple ’s production . They ate their lunch . That ’s precisely what would chance this time , too . Why would iOS licenseesnotgo for the high gross profit business organization ?
We need for Apple to be releasing inventive fresh products , not resting on its laurels because of an vantage it once had .
And the best way to do that is to have it completely destroy its business exemplar and outsource the user experience to cut - rate smartphone makers .
Good advice , Vivek ! A+ advicing . The Macalope is sure Apple will give that advice the care it deserves . By printing out both article so they can operate them both over with Apple Cars and then shred one and burn the other one .
