An editorial in today’sWall Street Journalargues that Apple ’s love of strategy has bedim its passion for product . Is Holman Jenkins right that Apple is the unexampled Microsoft , and iTunes is the new Windows ?
plain , the society are so inherently different both culturally and strategically that it ’s leisurely to dismiss Jenkins ’ claim out of hand . But there ’s at least one unassailable gunpoint here : Apple’srefusal to incorporate Flashmay hamper the iPhone ’s potentiality , but it forces user to go to iTunes for message they could otherwise get for gratuitous on Hulu . As Jenkins says :
https://gizmodo.com/adobe-responds-to-the-ipads-lack-of-flash-5458645
Here ’s the braggy vexation . Apple may be succumbing to the seductive temptations of “ web result , ” in which the all - have goal becomes getting its roving machine into more and more hired man simply for the purpose of locking more and more user into iTunes .
But has the focal point on getting those mobile devices into more and more hand lead in lower character products ? That ’s the material issue , and I retrieve the result has to be no . Jenkins holds the iPad up as proof of an “ increasingly junky ” machine , but I ca n’t think of anyone who ’s actuallyhad a hands - on withit who did n’t think it had serious potential .
https://gizmodo.com/apple-ipad-first-hands-on-5457757
Is there a chance that Apple will fall off like Microsoft did in the past times ? Sure . They ’ve got a closed ecosystem , and they ’ve shown a willingness to protect that at the cost of consumer welfare . But until that one exemplar starts show itself to be a systemic problem , it ’s far too early for this comparability to contain water . [ WSJ ]
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