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• Yes, ?Apple?s evil??except for all the others.
  
  Before Apple introduced the iPhone?
  http://counternotions.com/2009/08/26/pre-iphone/ In reply to: "Google vs. Apple: Who's telling the truth?"

  September 19, 2009

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• One of the shiniest memes around recently has been the incessant banging of the ?Apple?s evil? drum. Most notably written in endless self-indulgent and self-righteous detail about how one self-important person or another gave up the iPhone?because ?Apple?s evil.?
  
  ...it?s sobering to remember that a single device by a company with zero experience in the industry and against all odds caused such a tidal wave of change. Change didn?t come because of Nokia, Microsoft, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, RIM or any other player in the market for the past 15 years bet their company on it. Android and webOS weren?t there before the iPhone. But it?s convenient to forget all this when the meme demands Apple to be smeared with the evil brush.
  
  Yes, ?Apple?s evil??except for all the others.
  
  
  Before Apple introduced the iPhone?
  http://counternotions.com/2009/08/26/pre-iphone/ In reply to: "Why was 'Free Memory' an App Store no-no?"

  September 1, 2009

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• You think The is the Year of Desktop Linux? In reply to: "The cathedral plus the bazaar: Open source and Apple (design) envy"

  June 30, 2009

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• iPhone + iPod touch combined have 37 million users, likely to surpass 50 million by the end of this year. Developers go where the users are. Palm Pre is not even in the same league as Apple's touch *platform*. More here:
  
  Strategic shortcomings of Pre in the post-iPhone era
  http://counternotions.com/2009/01/12/pre/ In reply to: "In defense of Sprint and the Palm Pre"

  April 22, 2009

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• "After skimming through the patent in question...Another garbage patent"
  
  Good for you. You're well informed and armed. What's your next mission, brain surgery? In reply to: "Apple refusing royalty-free license to widget patent"

  April 7, 2009

  1 reply

• "Giving people options is always a good thing."
  
  Right, because we're all using Linux now. In reply to: "Next iPod Touch may be extremely wireless"

  April 6, 2009

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• Two words for you: Howard Hughes. In reply to: "OMG! Did Google Earth find Atlantis?"

  February 20, 2009

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• "Pre's introduction, website, technology packaging, industrial design, UI, product naming and positioning...down to the flow of its CES presentation were pointedly, but perhaps not surprisingly, Apple-like. Of all the current iPhone competitors, Pre clearly captures the 'soul' of the iPhone as much as any product not-from-Cupertino can. Whatever Pre 'borrows' from the iPhone, it does so not with the brazen indifference of recent iPhone-killers, but with care and purpose."
  
  However:
  
  "Palm is clearly late to iPhone's party. By the time the first Pre is sold, the iPhone will likely have 30 million users in 70+ countries, 15,000 apps, a huge developer and peripherals ecosystem, perhaps a third of the market share and 40% of smartphone revenues. And that's before the next generation iPhone device and OS are introduced."
  
  I explored Pre's chances in:
  
  "Strategic shortcomings of Pre in the post-iPhone era"
  http://counternotions.com/2009/01/12/pre/ In reply to: "Why Pre is the right move for Palm"

  January 13, 2009

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• Even if Flash could be optimized to run faster on OS X with less of an impact on the ARM CPU and battery life, there'd still remain a huge issue of clashing UIs and interaction frameworks on the iPhone between Adobe and Apple. The iPhone is establishing the first multi-touch driven mass-market platform, Flash doesn't even have a multi-touch framework, yet. I explored the implications of this for both Adobe and Apple in:
  
  The new UI wars: Why there's no Flash on iPhone 2.0
  http://counternotions.com/2008/06/17/flash-iphone/ In reply to: "Adobe wants to bridge gap between PCs and cloud"

  November 17, 2008

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• Even if Flash could be optimized to run faster on OS X with less of an impact on the CPU and battery life, there would still remain a huge issue of clashing UIs and interaction frameworks on the iPhone between Adobe and Apple. The iPhone is establishing the first multi-touch driven mass-market platform, Flash doesn't even have a multi-touch framework. I explore the implications of this for both Adobe and Apple in:
  
  The new UI wars: Why there's no Flash on iPhone 2.0
  http://counternotions.com/2008/06/17/flash-iphone/ In reply to: "Adobe exec confirms Flash for iPhone, says Apple will decide when"

  September 30, 2008

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