Re: [Fed-Talk] WWDC June 7-11; Mac OS X de-emphasized; Enterprise sessions missing
Re: [Fed-Talk] WWDC June 7-11; Mac OS X de-emphasized; Enterprise sessions missing
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] WWDC June 7-11; Mac OS X de-emphasized; Enterprise sessions missing
- From: "Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:04:27 -0400
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- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] WWDC June 7-11; Mac OS X de-emphasized; Enterprise sessions missing
I'll take that bet. :)
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On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:55 AM, "Boyd Fletcher" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I concur
>
> And they also just came out with a new o/s so....this time they are
> focusing on mobile
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> Next year I bet macosx will be the major focus
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> Boyd Fletcher
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> On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:36, Bryan William Jones <email@hidden
>> wrote:
>
>> That is pretty pessimistic there Mike... and no offense, but not
>> even realistic.
>>
>> Just look at revenues gained by Adobe and Microsoft products for
>> those companies. OS X is highly profitable for them and I expect
>> that applications for OS X will be around for as long as there is
>> money to be made from them. Adobe has been investing large amounts
>> of effort and money in the next version of their tools for OS X and
>> if you are remotely paying attention to the "openness" of the
>> platform, OS X is far ahead of Windows.
>>
>> There is a long ways to go with the platform and many improvements
>> to be made. I suspect what we are seeing with this years WWDC is
>> simply that Apple might not be as big a company (in terms of people)
>> as you might think. They have to invest their resources in areas of
>> growth to maximize the future of the company, which in this case is
>> iPhone/iPad development. The advantage here is that (simplistically
>> speaking) if you develop for the iPhone/iPad, you are also
>> developing for OS X.
>>
>> Once the second campus comes online in Cupertino, Apple will be able
>> to bring on many more peeps, so I see no dearth of support in the
>> future for OS X.
>>
>>
>>
>> Bryan
>> http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/
>>
>>
>> On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ) wrote:
>>
>>> After the WWDC announcement I've come to the realization that OS X
>>> is probably in its final stage as we have it right now... OS X is
>>> an open platform... anyone can do anything with it... iPhone OS is
>>> closed and Apple controls it.
>>>
>>> Apple has never really focused on enterprise... the closest thing
>>> to enterprise was creative people, and I am going to bet after the
>>> iPhone OS 4 and Flash fiasco that Adobe will pull their CS Suite of
>>> apps from OS X. Adobe did it once before, they may do it again...
>>> and if that happens, Microsoft may decide to pull Office.
>>>
>>> It's interesting looking at the 1984 commercial and how Apple has
>>> changed from "be free and different" to, "only if we want it will
>>> you have it."
>>>
>>> Could Microsoft become more open than OS X? Or, will Google be the
>>> one who takes over?
>>>
>>> Apple is now a media company more than anything else... selling
>>> media (music, videos, apps)... they make great hardware but I think
>>> the days of OS X are coming to an end... which really sucks because
>>> OS X is the best OS out there... it's the stability and reliability
>>> of Unix/Linux with a perfect interface.
>>>
>>> At least OS X is good enough in it's current state to survive a few
>>> more years before we have to move off of it....
>>>
>>> Thanks for the fun ride Apple, it was great!
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On Apr 28, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Rex Sanders wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/
>>>>
>>>> Mac OS X de-emphasized; iPhone OS gets center stage. Also, no Apple
>>>> Design Awards for Mac OS X; iPhone & iPad only.
>>>>
>>>> No Enterprise sessions to be found for any platform.
>>>>
>>>> Hope Apple has other plans for updating Enterprise customers.
>>>>
>>>> -- Rex
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