Steve Jobs quoted Alan Kay with "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." I don't want to turn this into a "I hate/love Apple" discussion but I think that's what separated Apple from MSFT.
Apple had a track record of making their own hardware and software work together really really well. MSFT didn't really follow Alan Kay's hypothesis. I would say that is what the heart of Apple's success is, it's reputation for excellent software/hardware integration.
Google's copy-innovate system is going to work because they brought about good integration between their products (for the most part). That is why Google, like Apple, should generate a very good user-fan-base. Which I believe the article pointed out very well.
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Steve Jobs quoted Alan Kay with "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." I don't want to turn this into a "I hate/love Apple" discussion but I think that's what separated Apple from MSFT.
Apple had a track record of making their own hardware and software work together really really well. MSFT didn't really follow Alan Kay's hypothesis. I would say that is what the heart of Apple's success is, it's reputation for excellent software/hardware integration.
Google's copy-innovate system is going to work because they brought about good integration between their products (for the most part). That is why Google, like Apple, should generate a very good user-fan-base. Which I believe the article pointed out very well.