Some guy says Apple will launch ultra-portable then makes stuff up about about Android
- November 30th, 2007
- 6 Comments
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I love financial analysts. They get “super-secret” news from “super-secret” sources — mostly the same sources we all have — and tell people to buy or sell stocks based on the same hunches we all have. The hunch du jour on Wall Street is that Apple’s stock will go up after the launch of an ultra-portable laptop at MacWorld in January. The ultra-portable we can believe. AppleInsider has the scoopz:
Earlier this month, AppleInsider cited well-respected sources who, following nearly two years of internal development on Apple’s part, are finally pinning the thin and lightweight 13-inch sub-notebook for an unveiling on January 15, 2008 as part of the company’s annual Macworld Expo announcements.
OK. Fair enough. It could happen. But then the analysts, namely Gene Munster, babbling about closed platforms and Android and Linux and iPhones, they sound like morons.
The Verizon announcement coincides with Google’s Android plans and the formation of the Open Handset Alliance, OHA, of which Verizon is a member,” he wrote. “While it is too early to tell, this could be the beginning of a new chapter in the wireless market. Microsoft has taken its traditional software-centric approach offering Windows Mobile to any device maker wishing to partner with Microsoft, [while] Apple has opted for a closed ecosystem in which it controls the entire experience (hardware, software, phone activation, etc.), and Google has invested in an open sourced platform with Verizon as the open carrier.”
Android will fail, friends. It will exist, but it won’t change the world. Microsoft and Symbian have too much cash in the game to let open source nerds install MobileTux on their N95s or T-Mobile Shadows.
Piper ups likelihood of ultra-portable at Macworld, comments on iPhone [AppleInsider]
AndroidGuys (Who am I?)
9 months ago
Define “fail”.
John Biggs (Who am I?)
9 months ago
Let me put it this way. I was working with a company to build a blog for them. No money changed hands, we just chatted on the phone. I recommended Wordpress for their platform - it’s extensible, it works well, thousands of people use it. But they bought a license to Typepad for the sole reason of “apparent” support. Google and OHA will get Android on handsets. I don’t doubt it. But I don’t see an open source OS getting market share above or beyond the already established players. Nobody ever got fired for installing Windows over Linux and this is the same animal.
exapted (Who am I?)
9 months ago
What about Aplix, Noser, TAT, Wind River - Commercialization Companies in the Open Handset Alliance? Couldn’t they provide support? I don’t see Android as “Open Source” in the traditional sense of the word. It is open source for manufacturers and networks. And if there are several companies to provide support instead of just the one (as with Symbian, Windows Mobile), manufacturers and networks should be all the more confident in Android.
Dan (Who am I?)
9 months ago
Also, he’s just flat out wrong: Verizon is not a member of the Open Handset Alliance.
John Biggs (Who am I?)
9 months ago
Aplix, Noser, TAT, Wind River != RIM or some guy who writes C# for WinMo6. Maybe I can be convinced otherwise by actual implementations but from the discussions I’ve had with OHA members I’m not seeing anything that Trolltech and Qtopia didn’t have five years ago.
dwalk51 (Who am I?)
9 months ago
Yes, well everything fails in the wake of the almighty iPhone.