[AccessD] Technology "Revolutions"

John,

You're a closet buddhist!  Everything changes, as those of us old enough to
remember 8-inch floppies and CPM realize.  I too admit to an anti-Apple
bias.  I have a couple of iPods (gifts), but I'm happy with my Android
phone and my Windows laptop.  I've found that my Android tablet isn't
really useful, but the same reasons that make it not useful would also
apply to an iPad.  The new Samsung Note 10.1 tickles my fancy but isn't in
my price range between contracts.  I don't hate Apple, I just don't like
the logic they use.  And I am uncomfortable with the "take no
prisoners" attitude the company affects, which also deflects me from their
products. To use an old expression, there's a rag for every mop!  If Apple
suits, fine.  It not, that's good too.

Charlotte

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:50 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:

> The smart phone and tablet are ideas whose time has come.  Laying the
> credit at the feet of any single company is simply ludicrous.  Apple played
> a huge part in popularizing both the smart phone and the tablet, but they
> didn't invent any of it.  Does that matter, not at all.  They played their
> part (mostly marketing IMHO) and they reaped their reward.
>
> However in the end there is no 'forever' winner in anything, whether it be
> cars, or boats or airplanes or PCs or cell phones. Jobs was an incredibly
> obnoxious genius who had visions and a gift for getting them implemented.
>  As often happens, once the genius goes, the fortunes of those around the
> genius goes as well.  IMO that happened once for Apple and is in the
> process of happening again.
>
> As for me, I am indeed biased, against Apple.  I truly believe that while
> their products were very good, they were not truly great.  They were well
> above average.  Their prices were way above average and that *alone* is
> what kept me out of the Apple game for a long time.
>
> In the end they became 'snob appeal' and that finished them off for me.  I
> am not my iPhone, I am not my iPad and I am not my Nexus 7.  I don't buy
> into the 'ya gotta have an iWidget (or any other widget) or you're nobody'
> mentality.  And since (IMO) their products are good but not great and they
> are overpriced - well above their actual value - I have no real incentive
> to buy them.
>
> OTOH I do not try and sell the iPeople out of buying them.  Anyone who
> buys an iWidget got what they wanted in laying down their iMoney so who am
> I to denigrate that.  My sister-in-law owns an advertising agency.  She has
> only Apple products in her business and home.  I support her in that. They
> work for her, she needs what they do and what they give her.
>
> I bought the Kindle Fire because I needed a reasonably priced tablet and
> that was the *only* one that did what I needed for a price I was willing to
> pay.  A year later I bought the Nexus 7 because it was the *only* tablet
> that did what I *wanted* at a price I was willing to pay.  Notice the first
> tablet was defined by needs (and truly did not do what I wanted) and the
> second by wants, while both were defined by economics.
>
> I love my Nexus 7.  It is a way cool machine.  The iPad probably is as
> well but it simply doesn't meet my requirements (price/value) and AFAICT
> gives me absolutely nothing that my Nexus 7 doesn't for an incredibly lot
> more money.
>
> So I suppose that you can say that I am biased, I think we are all biased.
>  We look at our own situation and make decisions and get called biased by
> the same people that came to other conclusions and are biased the other
> way.  I'll admit that I am biased if you'll admit that you are biased.
>
> Looking unemotionally at the technology world today I don't see either
> Apple or MS to be on the rise.  It appears to me that both are declining in
> influence.  *Nobody* stays on top forever.
>
> Regardless, my boat is tied to the MS world for now, and I am OK with that.
>
> But my tablet and my cell is Android based and I am OK with that as well.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
>
>