This guy doesn’t get it. If Apple is gaining market share, it’s because the experience people have with their products surpasses the products of others.
Take the iPad, which instantly shed the moniker “Jesus tablet” once it saw the light of day. It’s a blown-up iPod Touch, rolled out not to be insanely great but to give Apple an entry in the netbook derby.
Apple is in the business of creating great user experiences. Their strategy is to make casual computing more comfortable. It’s not about the hardware or the software. It’s about the experience you have with their product.
The iPad looks like a device optimized to patronize the iTunes store.
Totally right. Apple is in business to sell products. What’s wrong with that?
Apple refuses to support Flash, which delivers 75% of the video on the Web. […] Flash would also allow iPhone and iPad users to consume video and other entertainment without going through iTunes. Flash would let users freely obtain the kinds of features they can only get now at the Apple App Store.
With a modern browser, like Safari, this isn’t true. HTML5 in Safari natively supports video without flash. It’s a far more flexible, and accessible way of delivering video.
And what about Apple’s decision to exclude Flash? Apple and its supporters stake out aesthetic and philosophical grounds: Flash is buggy. Flash is a power hog. Flash is “proprietary” (horrors). Flash is used to create those annoying Web ads
The leading cause of browser crashes are caused by memory leaks in plugins. We know what plugin they are talking about.
While I only commented on a few key pieces of the article, I fail to see the connection to Microsoft.
