Just because the iPhone may (or may not be) 40% of revenue, doesn't
mean that OS X is decreasing in absolute terms. Apple's revenue is
growing - largely due to iPhone, but their Mac sales are steadily
increasing as well - the financial conference call a week or so ago
clearly showed that.
iPhone may be 40% of revenue. That doesn't mean that they are ready to
throw away the other 60%.
Taylor
Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ) wrote:
Adobe did it once. I just think they may do it again.
I hope I am wrong on os x future. I will tell you I bought CS5 master collection. And i bought the windows version because I know it will be updated and supported. I can boot into windows on my Mac or use vmware. If I have the Mac version I can't use it in windows.
I hope I am wrong but apple has changed and no os x Ada sort of shows that os x is now the parent that put them where they are, and apple is sending that parent to the retirement home.
Last I read the iPhone is responsible for 40 percent of apples revenue. They aren't going to throw away Mac yet, but as it becomes less and less lucrative (by dropping support, not pushing developers to develop for it) it may become the next killed product.
Again i hope I am wrong.
Sent from my iPad
On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:36 AM, "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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