Comments on: Welcome to iPhone: Your Crappy Mac of Tomorrow, Today!

By: Michael Tsai - Blog - Podcaster

Michael Tsai - Blog - Podcaster — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:27:31 +0000

[...] since there’s so much uncertainty about whether they will be approved. It keeps getting harder to give Apple the benefit of the [...]

By: All Dressed Up And Nothing To Say » Blog Archive » Apple Should Run China

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:39:05 +0000

[...] this platform? My message to Apple (not that anyone there is reading this) is stop censoring and stop lying. How hard is that? Apple is turning into a much more devious, untrustworthy company than [...]

By: Michael Tsai

Michael Tsai — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:51:24 +0000

Geniver: No, the iPhone SDK is not one of the top-secret Leopard features.

I’m not sure how to interpret your comments about FUD. Are you suggesting that Apple would have announced the SDK later if Android hadn’t already been announced? If anything, Apple was engaging in FUD by making a vague announcement that they would announce an SDK, whereas Google’s SDK was already available.

By: Geniver

Geniver — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:13:17 +0000

You can't have it both ways. First you complain that Apple held back the iPhone SDK; then you complain that Apple didn't have any "top secret features" in Leopard. Didn't the iPhone SDK qualify as a "top secret" feature? Remember Apple's history. Their biggest developer's are also their biggest rivals. Microsoft announces Windows right before Apple announces the Mac, creating FUD. Google announces Android right before Apple announces the iPhone SDK, creating FUD. @David: "The Osborne Effect" has got to on the all-time top ten "Stockholder's worst Nightmares" list. For over 20 years, FUD merchants have been trying to get that particular lightning to strike Apple, too. The funny part is, the class action law suit against Osborne was seeking 8.5 MILLION dollars in damages. That's MILLION. I call that the Dr. Evil effect. Imagine the size of the lawsuit were Steve Jobs to take just one step in Adam Osborne's footsteps!!!

By: Dogger

Dogger — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:32:20 +0000

Furthermore! ;-) On multiple occasions now, some in the press have tried to characterize Jobs as being reckless for having postponed the initial, curative surgery for his cancer and opting instead to try an alternative approach to treating the nonaggressive form of cancer he had. It's easy enough for us to sit back and let the accusations fly, when the fact is the surgery itself (Whipple procedure) has a small but significant mortality rate (perhaps 1-3%) and carries with it a lifetime of gastrointestinal problems--the details of which I really don't care to know about, but perhaps those with their money invested in competitors to Apple do.

By: Dogger

Dogger — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:22:09 +0000

I happen to believe Jobs had a "common bug" and that it created the tipping point in his decidedly gaunt appearance and weak energy level at WWDC '08. From that perspective, the bug was indeed the most important factor. The gastrointestinal surgery he had earlier in the year was to correct a condition that caused weight loss, yes, but I do happen to believe that the GI bug was the factor that, as he said, almost led him to cancel his appearance at WWDC and contributed most to the public concern for his health.

By: Michael Tsai

Michael Tsai — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:22:39 +0000

Hi Ed, it’s nice to hear from you. Yes, Apple literally took employees off the Leopard team and put them to work on the iPhone, and it seems that even after the delay they released Leopard before it was ready. The Snow Leopard plan sounds good, though.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:01:35 +0000

Working in the mobile phone industry, I hear from an number of people about the iPhone. Basically, ATT is extremely uncomfortable with the iPhone SDK, and is forcing a number of limitations on Apple. One example is the NDA - that is purely ATT, not Apple.

By: Edward Goss

Edward Goss — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:35:49 +0000

Michael - I appreciate your candor, and agree that Apple is seriously lacking in that department. Although I don't - and won't - own an iPhone, my main concern is Apple's apparent lack of continuing interest in the desktop environment. I don't need access to my e-mail 24/7, and my phone conversations can wait until I have the time to speak in the comfort and security of my own home. What I do need, however, is a dependable desktop environment upon which to work. It seems to me that with every step Apple makes, the desktop users are left further and further behind. Call me old fashioned, but I've been with Apple since the days of OS 6, and it is getting harder and harder to believe in - and trust - the folks in Cupertino. BTW, how are you doing? Long time, no see!

By: GetALife_Max

GetALife_Max — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:50:43 +0000

Does anyone have any idea to what Apple would have to agree, to get the approval of a huge telecomm like AT&T?
Especially considering the acknowledged past of the Steve J & Steve W pair with regard to telephone hacking?

No wonder it was locked down tight. No telecomm would agree to less.

It's a wonder iPhone got through at all!