Everyone ’s ennoble to their opinion , right ? Well , some opinions are more equal than others , it seems . Or should be . The Macalope does n’t believe that Apple dreams up every feature of its products in a void , but how much is the caller really copying Samsung ? And are Windows tablet really doooooming iPads in the bodied blank space ? Finally , that gadget you think you know everything about ? It does n’t be yet .
Cart, horse
The Boy Genius Report ’s Tero Kuittinen tells us about an challenging game of big cat and mouse where the hunting watch becomes the hunted !
Please relish this curler coaster drive of mislaid suit and effect .
In the Christmas of 2011 , the first Galaxy Note proved that a jumbo display smartphone was a gimmick with substantial demand .
Uhhh , OK . Except Apple has n’t made a jumbo smartphone .
Now Apple is wait to found its own big - screen speech sound in the summer of 2013 , nearly two class after Samsung pioneered the niche .
Oh , well , when you put it in the terms of magic intersection that do n’t exist yet , then yes , Apple ’s all following Samsung . Slavishly , really , what with the fact that Samsung has made televisions for years and Apple ’s not making a tv set in good order now .
But might .
( Buh ? )
Samsung also had such a vast success in the depressed - terminal smartphone market that it is coerce Apple to debut a crushed - closing line of iPhones .
Yes ! Or , well , perhaps , which is almost exactly like yes ! And watches ! Samsung makes watches and Apple does n’t make one . But might .
It ’s all so obvious once you discombobulate what has actually happened out the windowpane .
Apple can not yield to let Google ( GOOG ) capture it in app tax revenue generation . That would reach Android vendors a huge weapon in the long term as the web effect already favors Android apps due to the larger install base of gadget .
It ’s so hard to figure out what anyone at BGR is talking about because of their insurance of only connect to their own pieces , but the Macalope was able-bodied to double back tothe original article showing Google Play revenue closing the gap with the App Store gross . Turns out it ’s a band of estimation free-base on other estimations and , even if it ’s good , Kuittinen ’s point here makes no horse sense . There ’s no multiplicative event establish on Android ’s enceinte set up base . The estimation from firm like App Annie and Flurry already take that into invoice .
Thus Apple must now bend to plunge budget smartphones in a tender to prevent Samsung ’s smartphone mass advantage from burst forth .
Because masses who do n’t pay off for smartphones buy so many apps .
The third trend where Samsung has forced Apple to follow is the miniature pad of paper section .
That ’s one way to take care at it . Another way to look at it is that Samsung , Amazon , and Google had to make 7 - inch tablets because that was the only way they could sell anything . Apple has had the market for 10 - inch tablets locked up , and now it ’s saying , “ Eh , you lie with what ? We need the 7 - inch tablet grocery , too . ”
Now Samsung is moving ahead of Apple in fingermark security and facial credit engineering science .
Features average drug user are crying out for . feature that Samsung will for sure implement in a way of life that will be thoughtfully splice into the operating system , and that drug user will easily understand .
What will Apple do to climb out of the current rut ? It is doubtful that a $ 200 smartwatch is go to achieve another setback of luck .
“ I hump nothing about it , but I know it ’s not going to work ! ”
So long and thanks for all the linkbait
lamentable news attain the Macalope ’s furred ear this workweek : It appear thatDan Lyons is leaving ReadWriteafter five months on the job . Alas , Dan is going to work for a marketing software system company , leave the Macalope to fear for the state of Apple trollery .
Because where else but at ReadWrite , under the leadership of Dan Lyons , could we take this ?
“ The Enterprise Tablet Party Is Over For Apple . ”
Antone Gonsalves :
After three hard year , PC Divine have finally released Windows pad that tech analyst business firm Moor Insights & Strategy says will in all likelihood overthrow Apple ’s increase in the corporate securities industry .
Who is Moor Insights & Strategy ? Well , it’sa span of guy who used to work for AMD and Compaq . OK , you might vagabond your eyes , but Tim Cook used to work for Compaq , too , so that does n’t disqualify you from being smart . But what did these two guys say , exactly ?
“ Enterprise pill now exist that ply the best of both worlds between end user and IT , which order the Apple in a touch-and-go position of call for to supply more robust go-ahead features , ” Moor allege in a white-hot paper released Monday . “ Until that point , Moor Insights & Strategy recommends endeavour re - evaluate their iPad pilot and deployments . ”
Well , initiative shouldalwaysre - evaluate deployments . How does Gonsalves react to this advice ?
In other words , the enterprise company is over for Apple ’s tablets .
Two guys , one of whom ispart of the never - terminate clown show live asForbescontributors — albeit not the clowniest — suggest that iOS devices might face more competition and ReadWrite declares Apple ’s ride is over .
Why ?
Because Intel has make a competitive silicon chip based on the X86 instruction set …
But …
There ’s also more baseline expandability with the Windows pad .
Well …
Other pluses include spiel nicely with Active Directory …
seem , it ’s also worth noting that the iPad begin at $ 330 — a trivial fact left out of this research . Patrick Moorhead , author of the Moor white-hot theme , based his toll depth psychology on 64 GB 10 - inch iPads and factors in the toll of associated technology needed to deploy iOS gadget . It does n’t debate the fact that if you ’re deploy iPhones , you already have those engineering .
Much of the iPad ’s success in the enterprise was terminal - user driven . But Moorhead thinks this reward is over :
End exploiter want style , simmpleness and gadget and IT needs protection , provisioning , manageableness , deployment , support and service that is consistent with their current substructure for the lowest lifecycle cost . Enterprise tablets now exist that bring home the bacon the good of both human beings between end substance abuser and IT , which frame the Apple in a precarious position of postulate to add more robust enterprise lineament .
Tell you what , Patrick . It ’s Saturday , so take the air into your local mall and stand between the Apple Store and the Microsoft Store ( which will be the right way across from it ) , then order me which one ’s tablets are generating more end - user interest .
It ’s quite possible that both the iPadandWindows tablets might recover homes in the corporate reality . The Macalope was originally skeptical that the iPad would be accept by the managers who draw corporate IT section and pulsate the Microsoft drum like tempestuous orcs ( not a lot of people know this , but Tolkien mean the mine of Moria to be an apologue for corporate IT ) . But despite being told that Apple product would never go by the gates , and then being toldAndroid would sweep over Io in the enterprise , iOS devices arestill doing quite well , thank you very much .
Gonsalves ca n’t even getinveterateApple nay - sayerand notedYahoo Sitebuilder userJack Gold to grease one’s palms into this business line of reasoning :
“ The iPad , and Android ( tablets ) , will have a shoes as long as user demand it , ” Gold said . “ And the Win8 devices will find a niche , particularly in those organizations that have company - own assets that IT fully controls . ”
This is either an interesting turnabout for Gold , who has to particular date repeatedly dissolve the iPad , or the guy rope sit down beside his phone look to give newsperson adverse opinion .
Well , despite Gold ’s word , Gonsalves know the literal score :
While Gold has a point , the advantages the latest Windows tablets have are too numerous for corporation to ignore .
The Macalope hopes that Lyon ’s departure wo n’t stand for we ’ll have to go without analysis like this . What ever would we do ?
Groundhog day
Speaking of misguided opinions , Cyrus Sanati says“Nobody postulate an Apple iWatch or anything like it”(tip o ’ the antlers tothe Jony I ve parody story on Twitter ):
It is indecipherable what a “ smartwatch ” by either Apple or Samsung will actually do , but it does n’t take the brainpower of 100 gifted Apple merchandise engineers to figure it out .
All it use up is a duck’s egg , a Razor scooter , and a six - ingroup of domestic beer !
That ’s because there are already a bevy of “ smartwatches ” on the market and they somewhat much all do the same thing .
Oh , man . OK . Wow . Whew . That is just …
That … that winded the Macalope a little . hang up on .
Phew . OK . Sorry , it ’s just that that much tunnel vision in one conviction is … well , it ’s breathless .
The night before the iPhone ’s release the Macalope was in San Francisco , dining with some friends who are devout user of Apple products . But at the time , one of them was show off a BlackBerry Pearl he had just buy . The horny one need why he did n’t wait and he articulate “ I ca n’t imagine that anything Apple ’s go to come up with will be any better than this . ”
Now , we were all younger and dumber back then , and Apple ’s track record was n’t quite as prove as it is now , so his lack of foresight can be excused . But to simply assumenowthat an unseen Apple gadget is just the same as existing devices ?
The idea of a smartwatch is n’t new .
Neither was the estimate of a tablet computing machine . Or a smartphone . Or a digital music participant . Or a home computer .
When was the last time you assure a soul cavort a smartwatch ? Chances are you have n’t . And it is not because the dummy smartwatch is something new .
No , it ’s because no one ’s made a really good one . Yet .
The stereotypic Samsung will most probable just copy whatever Apple does to the letter .
Well , at least we agree on something .
That mean that both mathematical product , which will in all probability have the same features as all those watch advert above , will appeal to a narrow-minded subset of consumers who really compass its design and who believe it will fit their style .
Does that sound like a product Apple would make ? At all ? If there ’s no appealingness for a outstanding number of consumer , Apple is unlikely to make it .
Pro point for pundit : When you jell out to write a piece about Apple , seek to remember which company you ’re writing about , and what its well - build business model is .
