Comments on: iPhone App Store Rejections, Twisty Maze Ahead http://blog.payne.org/2008/09/15/iphone-app-store-rejections-twisty-maze-ahead/ Working hard to improve the signal-to-noise ratio Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:35:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Steve Frechette http://blog.payne.org/2008/09/15/iphone-app-store-rejections-twisty-maze-ahead/#comment-459 Steve Frechette Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:21:33 +0000 http://blog.payne.org/2008/09/15/iphone-app-store-rejections-twisty-maze-ahead/#comment-459 Unfortunately Apple can get away with this for now because the competitors have done such a terrible job of innovating. I'm hopeful that the BB Storm or Android can step up and change the situation, but I wouldn't bet on it. I'm not hearing good things from my contacts about either device, and let's just say I'm not holding my breath for the Zune phone either. The reality I believe we all face is that the iPhone will grab iPod like market share for mid and high end mobile consumers. And watch out if the iPhone can get momentum in the corporate market. Every major company is evaluating the iPhone platform and it's only a matter of time in my mind till RIM starts to feel the pain. We better figure out how to make money in a Steve Jobs world! Unfortunately Apple can get away with this for now because the competitors have done such a terrible job of innovating. I’m hopeful that the BB Storm or Android can step up and change the situation, but I wouldn’t bet on it. I’m not hearing good things from my contacts about either device, and let’s just say I’m not holding my breath for the Zune phone either.

The reality I believe we all face is that the iPhone will grab iPod like market share for mid and high end mobile consumers. And watch out if the iPhone can get momentum in the corporate market. Every major company is evaluating the iPhone platform and it’s only a matter of time in my mind till RIM starts to feel the pain.

We better figure out how to make money in a Steve Jobs world!

]]> By: Steve Kane http://blog.payne.org/2008/09/15/iphone-app-store-rejections-twisty-maze-ahead/#comment-456 Steve Kane Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:01:42 +0000 http://blog.payne.org/2008/09/15/iphone-app-store-rejections-twisty-maze-ahead/#comment-456 i admit, i adore apple's products but why o why does the valley and geek community like (or even tolerate) apple the company? everything is properietary and closed intellectual property (other than apple's of course) is worthless, or at best, worthy of simplistic flat pricing (rather than market driven relative pricing) management is not only not transparent, it is transparently hostile, e.g. the app store and suing bloggers and the like. not to mention option backdating et al. not to mention treacly faux-altruistic but entirely bogus politically correct initiatives like "red". New SUVs are totally cool and beautifully engineered products, but we also are intolerant of arrogant and ignorant management and practrices at auto manufacturers. its time we take a similar attitude to the tech industry - stop hosing consumers and start obsessing on the green/national defense front (less planned obsolesence, more renewable materials, less waste, more energy efficiency etc) i admit, i adore apple’s products

but why o why does the valley and geek community like (or even tolerate) apple the company?

everything is properietary and closed

intellectual property (other than apple’s of course) is worthless, or at best, worthy of simplistic flat pricing (rather than market driven relative pricing)

management is not only not transparent, it is transparently hostile, e.g. the app store and suing bloggers and the like. not to mention option backdating et al. not to mention treacly faux-altruistic but entirely bogus politically correct initiatives like “red”.

New SUVs are totally cool and beautifully engineered products, but we also are intolerant of arrogant and ignorant management and practrices at auto manufacturers. its time we take a similar attitude to the tech industry - stop hosing consumers and start obsessing on the green/national defense front (less planned obsolesence, more renewable materials, less waste, more energy efficiency etc)

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