Comments on: Apple WWDC 2010 set for June 7, iPhone OS & App Store centric event

By: yehoshua

yehoshua — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:57:43 +0000

yes, it is sad but when jobs leaves, apple will be no more, jobs is apple, he is the heart of apple and when he is gone, apple will die away and turn to nothing more than a long lost memory within 30 years…

By: Does iOS signal the death of the Mac? - iOS Daily

Does iOS signal the death of the Mac? - iOS Daily — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:40:29 +0000

[...] the Apple Design Awards and winners this year. All iOS based, the Mac is noticeably absent and that didn’t go unnoticed by Mac users even months ago. Change is always a bit nerve racking, but this change could be very good for the [...]

By: Nestor

Nestor — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:21:11 +0000

This is a great prediction on the future of Apple and the industry in general. Basically in 5 years there won’t be a Mac, it will be various stages of an iPad and iPhone, much like Peeved Steve predicts.

Worth a read (has little to do with Flash)

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hates-flash.html

By: Mathias S

Mathias S — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:50:31 +0000

Steve, i have the exact same feelings and I know many with us.

Sorry to say, but apple lost it.

By: Peeved Steve

Peeved Steve — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:42:45 +0000

I’m a developer for a pretty major software company and was planning on attending WWDC 2010, not anymore. The writing is on the wall, Mac as a desktop platform is far on the backburner and will eventually just merge into the iPhone OS camp likely as a ‘Pro’ version.

From a business standpoint, these makes sense for Apple to do, there is far more opportunity in the mobile world where Apple already has a dominant lead than trying to make a dent in Microsofts desktop monopoly. Apple has been hitting their head against the desktop wall of Microsoft since the 1980′s, and while yes Mac’s are getting more and more popular as the alt-computer they just don’t have the same future as iPhone OS.

The release of the iPad was the first of many nails in the Mac coffin, expect to see touchscreen laptops and iMac’s over the next year or two as Apple continues to advance the iPhone OS before finally breaking it into two versions; iPhone OS for Dummies and iPhone OS for Professionals.

The worst part about all of this is the Mac App Store, if you truly have to sign everything with Apple before installing it on your Mac then the platform has no future. I don’t think we’ll see that for another few years though, there will likely be one more version of Mac OS X before the merge into whatever they’ll call the next ‘big thing’, makes you wonder if it’s a good idea to buy a Mac right now doesn’t it? Microsoft isn’t about to abandon it’s users to push their mobile OS and Windows 7 is actually the best thing to come out of MS likely ever. So, $2000 for a new Mac or $600 for a PC? Or $500 for the first crippled iPad with no ports, and no real storage capacity to actually store your data, music, movies, and images? What will still be in use four to five years from now? Certainly not the current iPad, and the current Mac’s look like they’re getting the shaft from Big Steve sooner than later.