“social, local, mobile”
14:53 | 08-12-2011 | Apple, Google, Software, The Great Game | 2 Comments
лунатики продолжают зажигать:
“Android is ahead of the iPhone now,” Schmidt declared to an audience of techies and aspiring entrepreneurs at the LeWeb conference here.
He made his statement to a room bursting at the seams with iPhones, iPads, and Macs, and the audience met his words with a moment of silence that implied some skepticism.
а дальше еще лучше:
“Whether you like Android or not, you will support that platform, and maybe you’ll even deliver it first.”
ну да, мечтать не вредно, как говорится. или это не мечты? Марко Армент абсолютно справедливо интересуется:
Is that a prediction or a threat?
Is he implying that Android is widely disliked, and it doesn’t matter to him?
именно, Шмидт вообще фантастический, ага[1]. но на самом деле все проще, мне кажется:
Android is indeed a success in the market. But one big weakness compared with iOS was very visible at the conference: becoming the top priority for programmers. Note-taking specialist Evernote today announced a new app called Hello for keeping track of people–for iPhone only so far. And when news reader Flipboard announced its expansion from the iPad to the iPhone, Chief Executive Mike McCue refused to even say whether the company was working on an Android version.
“We’ve been focused on iPhone,” McCue said. And about Android, he said only, “We’ll see.”
во-первых, он недостаточно выгоден разработчикам, а во-вторых, его и в самом деле не любят — Джон Грубер, например, очень четко подметил разницу:
I think maybe the biggest reason iOS has such strong developer support is that developers like iOS. They use and prefer iPhones and iPads personally, they like Cocoa, and they like the App Store.
однако, если оставить ультиматумы разработчикам в стороне, то и кроме этого там полно интересного — вот, скажем:
One of the recurring Android criticisms is the idea that it’s an iOS knockoff–an idea that incensed late Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Schmidt wouldn’t comment on whether Android copied iOS features, but he did offer his stock refrain about the issue: “Android was founded before the iPhone was.”
ага-ага, мы помним, мы знаем.
или вот, о кардинально меняющихся целях:
“All the interesting new applications are going to be some combination of social, mobile, and local,” Schmidt said.
точно, пойдем или направо, или налево, или вверх, или вниз.
и не паяцы ли?
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[1] — У Марко дальше прекрасное:
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