Comments on: The age of semi-closed, but consumer-friendly IT http://blog.agoeldi.com/2010/02/04/the-age-of-semi-closed-but-consumer-friendly-it/ Just observing... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:35:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: TOM http://blog.agoeldi.com/2010/02/04/the-age-of-semi-closed-but-consumer-friendly-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2844 TOM Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:00:35 +0000 http://blog.agoeldi.com/2010/02/04/the-age-of-semi-closed-but-consumer-friendly-it/#comment-2844 This is mostly stupid Apple fanfiction. If Apple build cars you would have use their gas stations. And Sun just made bad products nobody wanted. Apple is expensive to get into, but even more expensive to get out of. Without Openness the internet wouldn't exist PERIOD No real innovation happens when every vendor builds his own ecosystem. It just won't work. Open systems will always win in the long run. I will get back to you in 10 years and we will see how big the closed Apple-like ecosystems are. This is mostly stupid Apple fanfiction.

If Apple build cars you would have use their gas stations.

And Sun just made bad products nobody wanted.

Apple is expensive to get into, but even more expensive to get out of.

Without Openness the internet wouldn’t exist PERIOD No real innovation happens when every vendor builds his own ecosystem. It just won’t work. Open systems will always win in the long run. I will get back to you in 10 years and we will see how big the closed Apple-like ecosystems are.

]]> By: Ben http://blog.agoeldi.com/2010/02/04/the-age-of-semi-closed-but-consumer-friendly-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2824 Ben Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:20:05 +0000 http://blog.agoeldi.com/2010/02/04/the-age-of-semi-closed-but-consumer-friendly-it/#comment-2824 I simply don't get that. Of course I can buy my MP3s at Amazon and import them into my Itunes. Of course I can buy my movies on dvd, rip them an put them in my Itunes. I do that everyday. Has something changed and I missed it? Of course, Apple makes it easy to buy it in their Store. But still, you don't have to. And of course I like to rent movies and buy Apps on the Itunes-Store. Because I trust Apple. I do not trust the Telekom, Sony, Microsoft … they disappointed me far to often. Actuallay there are only three companies I have the trust to paid them: Amazon, Apple and Paypal. And I think you missed some points. # Apple already moved towards openness, when put unter pressure: DRM-free MP3s. # Don't forget the Safari on the Iphone, Ipad … and the growing opinion that you should develop HTML5 Apps optimzed for Apples Gadgets than Apps. # Don't forget, that Apple has worked hard for their current position: They used the success of the Iphone to implement Itunes at users Computer. They used that success to push the Iphone into the market. The used the Iphone and Itunes to implement the App-Store … and now the Success of the App-Store, will support the Ipad – this is an extraordinary complex chain of success an on one point the could as well have had bad luck. I'm not sure, that another company will come up with a compareable story soon. So I am sceptic about your conclusion for the future of IT. # I think you know my Opinion about Facebook … we're going to seem them fall like AOL and Myspace. # I don't think that innivation needs that much capital … acually the success of most of the things in the web, shows, that the initial costs of innovation have droped to a point where you can innovate from your college dorm, actually with a few nightshifts. I simply don’t get that.
Of course I can buy my MP3s at Amazon and import them into my Itunes.
Of course I can buy my movies on dvd, rip them an put them in my Itunes.
I do that everyday.
Has something changed and I missed it?
Of course, Apple makes it easy to buy it in their Store. But still, you don’t have to.

And of course I like to rent movies and buy Apps on the Itunes-Store. Because I trust Apple. I do not trust the Telekom, Sony, Microsoft … they disappointed me far to often. Actuallay there are only three companies I have the trust to paid them: Amazon, Apple and Paypal.

And I think you missed some points.

# Apple already moved towards openness, when put unter pressure: DRM-free MP3s.

# Don’t forget the Safari on the Iphone, Ipad … and the growing opinion that you should develop HTML5
Apps optimzed for Apples Gadgets than Apps.

# Don’t forget, that Apple has worked hard for their current position: They used the success of the Iphone to implement Itunes at users Computer. They used that success to push the Iphone into the market. The used the Iphone and Itunes to implement the App-Store … and now the Success of the App-Store, will support the Ipad – this is an extraordinary complex chain of success an on one point the could as well have had bad luck. I’m not sure, that another company will come up with a compareable story soon. So I am sceptic about your conclusion for the future of IT.

# I think you know my Opinion about Facebook … we’re going to seem them fall like AOL and Myspace.

# I don’t think that innivation needs that much capital … acually the success of most of the things in the web, shows, that the initial costs of innovation have droped to a point where you can innovate from your college dorm, actually with a few nightshifts.

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