Does anyone know what is the matter withForbes ?
It used to be a rather benignant deadened - tree business news rag , the proceeds of which did nothing more damaging than fund the dressing table candidacy of its founder ’s grandson . But the advent of the Internet was a heavy disruption for the cartridge holder business , and these daysForbes ’s connection comportment is the on-line equivalent weight of a correspondence buffoon college .
Or the moaning of the shuffling undead .
The Macalope is not provide links to any of this , partly as a residential district serving for those who do n’t want their brains to explode , and part not to reward the jerkery .
Two weeks agoForbeswas asking“After $ 30 Billion Mistake , Can Tim Cook Manage Apple?”(link to Daring Fireball ’s take on it ) . Last week , it had moved on to more important questions , like “ Is The Apple Logo Blasphemous ? ” Again , not making that up .
Really , people , it ’s like you do n’t know anything about business .
As if those were n’t dandy enough atrocities againstBetteridge ’s Law of Headlines , now Anthony Wing Kosner atForbesasks “ Should Apple Be give way Up ? ”
You intend broken up laugh at whatForbespays citizenry to drop a line ?
orchard apple tree share some important machine characteristic with Google . It is a preferred brand , but not technically a monopoly . It is an internal part of people ’s day-to-day living . It has created a high standard of satisfaction for its users whose expected value are now inordinately high . And , as the world ’s most valuable company , it has produce , perhaps , too vainglorious .
I must be an Apple - hater , right , to suggest such a affair ?
No , no , no ! We have n’t ruled out idiocy , insanity , trolling for hits , or some combination of all of them . There ’s still lots of room for an underlying account .
But , just to be exculpated , we ’re talking about antimonopoly concerns , right ? Because that seems idiotic deal Apple ’s only got a bulk of one market , tablets , and even there it ’s less than 75 pct .
… just as Google may be weaken the integrity of its hunting product by moving into shopping and mobile , Apple ’s all - in - one approach may have decrease returns in terms of user satisfaction .
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Kosner believes that Apple ’s user satisfaction would be higher if Apple were n’t endeavor to earn multiple revenue streams .
Higher than what it is right now ? Anthony , there ’s only so much user satisfaction a person can take before his family relationship with his phone becomes inappropriate .
at long last , this is not a matter of regulation but of consumer selection .
Ahhh , so we’renottalking about antimonopoly concerns . So we can at least put the title and lead-in of your small-arm into the “ link baiting ” category . Got it .
Would it storm you to live thatForbesseparates this high - tone analysis into two pages so it can jam another advertizing into your orb ? believably not . The Macalope ’s readers may be smart and sassy , but they ’re also jolly wearied by now .
In a less adversarial environment , could n’t Apple and Google have made a raft for Apple to be able to make its own , unique interface based upon Google ’s data ?
Sure ! In a less adversarial surround , Google would have paid Apple for all that mobile operating organisation R&D Cupertino did for it , too . Any otherMarvel Presents : What If?!scenarios you need to get off your chest ?
Kosner then gets into the Maps government issue and keen the fact that , while you’re able to expend other map apps on iOS , you ca n’t exchange the systemwide default for maps .
Apple ’s argument has always been that the bundled plan of attack makes thing easier for user . No one changes the defaults anyway .
Not that many people do . The fact that we ’re even let the cat out of the bag about the Maps emergence indicates how rare it is . But the matter is , this is the option the market present for users . If you need to alter the default apps , get an Android - base equipment . If you need something less fiddly , that does n’t come junk up by your carrier and has apps that are justbetter , get an iOS - found gimmick .
But it ’s OK . The Macalope knows that reasonable thoughts like that do n’t betray ads on has - been photographic print publications . It ’s cool .
