Apr 02, 2012 21:37
One thing I've noticed with Apple products (or just about any computer hardware product that I use, for that matter) is that instead of being satisfied with what they can do, I am always mulling over what could be done to make them better.
Maybe it's just an overly demanding way of looking at these things, and maybe there's a bit of my own ego involved in that. Because, it's not like I am a computer engineer or that I've had any formal training in tinkering with technology. So, who am I to think or voice my opinion on these things?
At the same time, I look at a company like Research in Motion and I can see where and how they might possibly turn around and I base that judgement off of things, I think, that seem to me as if they should be very obvious. And as I look at Apple now, I can see where things may gradually fall into the toilet a couple of years from now.
When I first told Jerry that after seeing the iPhone that it was going to obliterate everything, he was doubtful. But Nokia's playform tanked, Windows mobile tanked, RIM eventually tanked, and Palm and the list of numerous other platforms are no more. The battle of Google versus Apple destroyed everyone else, and in two years these friendly enemies took the market for themselves.
It seems laughable now, but something similar could happen to Apple and Google. It won't be today, and it won't be tomorrow, but it will happen.