- What will happen if BlackBerry's email service goes down periodically and loses your email?
Everyone will switch to their competition. But that's because email is BlackBerry's core business.
- What will happen if Microsoft demands 30% of all developer revenues for their products and limits the distribution of applications?
What, you mean like they do for XBox?
From the Wikipedia on "Xbox Development Kit": "Only developers that are licensed by Microsoft may compile code and release binaries (.XBEs)of their software with the XDK, any software released using the XDK by developers that aren't licensed is illegal."
I think the answer in the XBox case is "Customers buy a lot of software anyway."
These complaints about Apple are legit (their crazy SDK NDA is really frustrating), but they're still early-adopter nitpicking. The iPhone SDK is not the core of Apple's business: They made plenty of iPhone profits even when they didn't have one, and they had plenty of happy customers. Apple's currently-FUBARed email services aren't the reason that I bought a pair of Macs: I bought the Macs because they run Unix tools just fine, they've got modern browsers, they've got iTunes, the printers just work, there's a lot of available audio and video software that just works, they can run Photoshop, they can run Windows and Linux via VMWare or Parallels, they're kind of pretty to look at, they've got an amusing online fanbase, etc, etc.
All of that still works. None of it goes away just because some software that was released last week doesn't work yet. If you don't want to be burned like an early adopter don't be an early adopter.
One difference between Apple and Microsoft is that, when Microsoft released their new operating system, it reportedly performed poorly when running everyday apps on existing hardware with formerly-supported peripherals. The result is that... many people remained Microsoft customers but just went back to XP. They refused to be early adopters. Problem solved. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the other difference between them and Apple is that Microsoft's product development cycle is now eight years long, so late adopters will wait a very long time before upgrading...
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- What will happen if BlackBerry's email service goes down periodically and loses your email?
Everyone will switch to their competition. But that's because email is BlackBerry's core business.
- What will happen if Microsoft demands 30% of all developer revenues for their products and limits the distribution of applications?
What, you mean like they do for XBox?
From the Wikipedia on "Xbox Development Kit": "Only developers that are licensed by Microsoft may compile code and release binaries (.XBEs)of their software with the XDK, any software released using the XDK by developers that aren't licensed is illegal."
I think the answer in the XBox case is "Customers buy a lot of software anyway."
These complaints about Apple are legit (their crazy SDK NDA is really frustrating), but they're still early-adopter nitpicking. The iPhone SDK is not the core of Apple's business: They made plenty of iPhone profits even when they didn't have one, and they had plenty of happy customers. Apple's currently-FUBARed email services aren't the reason that I bought a pair of Macs: I bought the Macs because they run Unix tools just fine, they've got modern browsers, they've got iTunes, the printers just work, there's a lot of available audio and video software that just works, they can run Photoshop, they can run Windows and Linux via VMWare or Parallels, they're kind of pretty to look at, they've got an amusing online fanbase, etc, etc.
All of that still works. None of it goes away just because some software that was released last week doesn't work yet. If you don't want to be burned like an early adopter don't be an early adopter.
One difference between Apple and Microsoft is that, when Microsoft released their new operating system, it reportedly performed poorly when running everyday apps on existing hardware with formerly-supported peripherals. The result is that... many people remained Microsoft customers but just went back to XP. They refused to be early adopters. Problem solved. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the other difference between them and Apple is that Microsoft's product development cycle is now eight years long, so late adopters will wait a very long time before upgrading...