Comments on: What Will Apple Borrow Next?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:59:29 +0000

I wanted to comment on the “Twitter won’t last 6 months” comments. It’s getting pretty close to six months, and as far as I know, Twitter is still alive and going strong.

As for Apple borrowing or acquiring, everyone does it. Apple and Microsoft are both incorporating ideas from each other– as well as Linux, BSD, and whoever else has a good idea. The biggest difference is that if Microsoft does it, they’re hung on a rope for it, and if Apple does it, they’re celebrated or just given a “wink and a nod” about it.

I don’t intend for this to sound like an Apple-bashing comment, rather that it should be held to the same standard as Microsoft. If you’re going to hang Microsoft for stealing, then you need to hang Apple right next to them. Since they both do it, and neither does a very good job of hiding the fact.

Have a great day:)
Patrick.

By: geotopia

geotopia — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:47:26 +0000

Well, they will probably have to borrow from companies like Apple, which has over $30B in reserves. Surprisingly, the really successful high tech companies, like Cisco, MSFT, and Apple have been very frugal and have very conservative CFOs that they will laud one day for giving them the financial resilience to survive the economic storm we are now JUST entering.

By: Daniel Gerber

Daniel Gerber — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:21:45 +0000

I think that many companies will begin to borrow more money due to crisis soon!

By: James Dempsey

James Dempsey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:20:39 +0000

Unfortunately, I wrote this article PRIOR to WWDC, but it wasn’t published until after.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:32:07 +0000

Hasn’t the screen recording already been confirmed rather than simply speculated?

See here: http://www.apple.com/ca/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html#quicktime

By: NG

NG — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:09:01 +0000

I was fanatic about Claris Emailer back in the late 90s, and violently resisted its total failure to continue working on my iMac in early 2000. I understand that Mail.app is from NeXT, but I always had a hunch that Apple was trying to get the feel and functionality of Claris Emailer, which they also owned.

By: Captain

Captain — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:08:38 +0000

That’s the one thing that truly annoys me in the world of IM – I have to use the likes of Trillian (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo), just to be able to keep up with all the people. And, agreed, MSN is Europe’s standard – more or less.

By: Captain

Captain — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:04:00 +0000

Completely agree – social networking sites will eventually decline in their usage, so I don’t think we should be trying to incorporate them everywhere. The internet is (mostly) about being selective, exclusive, and cool. With facebook and twitter quickly becoming the AOL chat of the 21st century, maybe it’s time to look at other ways of networking people. OFFLINE networking. What a radical concept. Meet up with friends, a good bottle of wine…

By: geotopia

geotopia — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:43:21 +0000

This is a good point by Dave and Torbjørn (cool name!) and it doesn’t matter if Apple sees MSN as a direct competitor, MSN should be one of the networks supported in iChat, similar to Exchange Server being supported by the OS.

By: Torbjørn Vik Lunde

Torbjørn Vik Lunde — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:06:21 +0000

As much as I like Twitter I don’t think it’s mainstream enough for Apple to actually include it. Besides: there are already many good Twitter-clients for the mac. (Try finding one for Windows that isn’t shit.) If I remember correctly iChat was released in a time where good Chat-clients where very scarce on the Mac.

And since I was talking about iChat. I agree with Dave on MSN support for iChat. I think in a lot of Europe(at least in Norway) MSN is the de-facto IM-standard. It’s what people actually use. (And don’t get me started on the official MSN-client for Mac.)