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Where do I start? 🙂 First I am called an Apple lover (very true I call myself part of the flock of Apple Sheeple) then Joey says I like the small iPhone (also very true) but when am I going to admit that bigger is better? That would be the day Apple and Tim Cook perfect the large phone which was two weeks ago. I’m not getting the iPhone 6, going to get the iPhone 6 plus that rivals Toby’s aircraft carrier.
But let’s back up to parts I don’t agree (since life would be boring if I ever agreed with Joey about computers).
First you describe the fiasco which is Windows 7 and 8 trying to also be a tablet and phone OS. But even Ballmer can’t even get his basketball team to use this crap and Windows 9 in the spring will retrograde to Windows XP an OS that is at least 5 years old. ( I like this because I like XP. It works.)
Wait, I agree with Joey on all that. But the Android/Samsung debacle is just a replay of the Windows debacle. You cannot make good stuff if you do not control the hardware and the software. How many versions of Android are out there? Different phones different carriers are all free to make it different and people think this is a plus? I’m guessing north of twenty versions. You try to upgrade the OS and the carrier says no because it’s too complicated for them to keep track of all these versions?
How many operating systems are on Apple phones? One. If you count versions as different then really only two. iOS 7 and iOS8. That locked in problem is actually a virtue. I can pick up any iPhone and know exactly how it works. I don’t waste brain cells thinking about the OS. It’s invisible.
Which gets me to fallacy number one that you mentioned. That the Apple OS is simple. Nothing could be further from the truth. Apple has a simple skin (and only one skin) that lays on top of the Unix Operating System. The biggest and baddest operating system in the world. I have been using it for 35 plus years and the line commands I used in 1980 still work. It is the core program in universities, NASA, the backbone of the internet. I sent my first DNA sequence to Washington by Unix line code in 1984 and I still know those commands because they still work.
So why is that a big deal? I can sit in front of any of the 35 Apple computers in my labs and do what I want to do without worrying about operating system. Because the Macintosh OS X riding on top is identical across all of them. And if that doesn’t go deep enough popping open terminal and asking the underlying Unix to do my bidding is also identical.
Steve Jobs and now Tim Cook realized simple but complex underneath was the way to go. Never ship until the simple on top is elegant too.
So that is why I am standing in line outside the Apple Store to get my enormous phone now and not when Android (who does not make phones) I mean Samsung or some other company made a big phone. Because the iPhone 6 is simply the best phone out there. Why? Because the phone OS and the phone were made by the same people.
Yes, everything Apple has done, someone made before them. Even the iPod. There were music players out there and Apple was laughed at and boom created a market. There were smart phones before the iPhone and people laughed at the expensive Apple product that was locked up and you couldn’t change the skin and boom Apple created the smartphone market.
When I’m in Albany next week at a meeting and the wifi doesn’t work and I need to get something off my phone to my laptop to edit then present I will not break into a sweat. Because Apple has provided me endless ways to easily move about on my Apple appliances that all speak to each other in one language (well two but no one sees the Unix but me.) I can instantly make my phone a hotspot so my laptop is online as well as my neighbor’s iPad because her iPad speaks only one language.
I could do that on a Windows or Samsung, or Android contrivance but I don’t want to waste the time figuring out how disparate things communicate with each other. I would rather use them to actually do something.
And so ends my Apple rant. I do actually hope that these other products start getting their act together instead of Apple walking away with everything because a little competition is a good thing. Without it Apple could easily get fat and lazy without a Steve Jobs telling the troops every year that Apple is doomed. But they just locked up the mobile pay market and no one can compete so two years from now I’m buying a lobster roll by waving my iPhone at the waitresses dongle and my credit cards stay home. Because that’s just too simple and elegant to not win.
Everything else I agree with especially if you mentioned Brother’s butternut crunch doughnuts. The perfect dollar spent.
Good Morning Gloucester 
Where do I start? 🙂 First I am called an Apple lover (very true I call myself part of the flock of Apple Sheeple) then Joey says I like the small iPhone (also very true) but when am I going to admit that bigger is better? That would be the day Apple and Tim Cook perfect the large phone which was two weeks ago. I’m not getting the iPhone 6, going to get the iPhone 6 plus that rivals Toby’s aircraft carrier.
But let’s back up to parts I don’t agree (since life would be boring if I ever agreed with Joey about computers).
First you describe the fiasco which is Windows 7 and 8 trying to also be a tablet and phone OS. But even Ballmer can’t even get his basketball team to use this crap and Windows 9 in the spring will retrograde to Windows XP an OS that is at least 5 years old. ( I like this because I like XP. It works.)
Wait, I agree with Joey on all that. But the Android/Samsung debacle is just a replay of the Windows debacle. You cannot make good stuff if you do not control the hardware and the software. How many versions of Android are out there? Different phones different carriers are all free to make it different and people think this is a plus? I’m guessing north of twenty versions. You try to upgrade the OS and the carrier says no because it’s too complicated for them to keep track of all these versions?
How many operating systems are on Apple phones? One. If you count versions as different then really only two. iOS 7 and iOS8. That locked in problem is actually a virtue. I can pick up any iPhone and know exactly how it works. I don’t waste brain cells thinking about the OS. It’s invisible.
Which gets me to fallacy number one that you mentioned. That the Apple OS is simple. Nothing could be further from the truth. Apple has a simple skin (and only one skin) that lays on top of the Unix Operating System. The biggest and baddest operating system in the world. I have been using it for 35 plus years and the line commands I used in 1980 still work. It is the core program in universities, NASA, the backbone of the internet. I sent my first DNA sequence to Washington by Unix line code in 1984 and I still know those commands because they still work.
So why is that a big deal? I can sit in front of any of the 35 Apple computers in my labs and do what I want to do without worrying about operating system. Because the Macintosh OS X riding on top is identical across all of them. And if that doesn’t go deep enough popping open terminal and asking the underlying Unix to do my bidding is also identical.
Steve Jobs and now Tim Cook realized simple but complex underneath was the way to go. Never ship until the simple on top is elegant too.
So that is why I am standing in line outside the Apple Store to get my enormous phone now and not when Android (who does not make phones) I mean Samsung or some other company made a big phone. Because the iPhone 6 is simply the best phone out there. Why? Because the phone OS and the phone were made by the same people.
Yes, everything Apple has done, someone made before them. Even the iPod. There were music players out there and Apple was laughed at and boom created a market. There were smart phones before the iPhone and people laughed at the expensive Apple product that was locked up and you couldn’t change the skin and boom Apple created the smartphone market.
When I’m in Albany next week at a meeting and the wifi doesn’t work and I need to get something off my phone to my laptop to edit then present I will not break into a sweat. Because Apple has provided me endless ways to easily move about on my Apple appliances that all speak to each other in one language (well two but no one sees the Unix but me.) I can instantly make my phone a hotspot so my laptop is online as well as my neighbor’s iPad because her iPad speaks only one language.
I could do that on a Windows or Samsung, or Android contrivance but I don’t want to waste the time figuring out how disparate things communicate with each other. I would rather use them to actually do something.
And so ends my Apple rant. I do actually hope that these other products start getting their act together instead of Apple walking away with everything because a little competition is a good thing. Without it Apple could easily get fat and lazy without a Steve Jobs telling the troops every year that Apple is doomed. But they just locked up the mobile pay market and no one can compete so two years from now I’m buying a lobster roll by waving my iPhone at the waitresses dongle and my credit cards stay home. Because that’s just too simple and elegant to not win.
Everything else I agree with especially if you mentioned Brother’s butternut crunch doughnuts. The perfect dollar spent.
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Avid listener here. Thanks for these guys!
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Thanks listen while going through the GMG site:-) Dave 🙂 Kim:-)
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