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2008-09-22 , 19:18
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
I think the iPhone didn't cause panic in the industry because Apple was very very careful not to position their device as an Internet device; they've made it very difficult to put any app on the phone, and I think it is as much because they don't want to rock the mobile industry that much quite yet. I strongly suspect that Apple actually does get it, and they want to build their market share to serious levels first, and then, (along with Nokia) destroy the industry completely.
or it could be that apple see the iphone as something that they wish they could turn the low end mac's into, a kind of apple services terminal.

the way i see it, apple is going head to head with google.

and with making sure that the iphone cant randomly connect to some third party services without going thru apples own systems (see their lock down on im and similar) they are attempting to make damn sure that some third party cant piggyback on their success...

hell, just watch their recent shooting down of a on the go podcast downloading app.

mobileme and itms is where apple is pinning their future, not macbook pro and mac pro. after the shift to x86, those are just another gray box with a fancy os.