Steve Jobs has died. What effect, if any, will it have on Apple and the tech industry?

I honestly don't think that there will continue to be the same level of innovation from Apple beyond whatever they have in the pipeline currently.

While I could never use a Mac for day to day stuff and I'm still of the opinion that most of it is overpriced, underspecced but very well made I really hope they keep up the same level of design and quality for their peripherals. I've always used Mac keyboards on my PC and they've always outlasted the Logitech/Microsoft equivalents I get foisted on me with new PC's. The chiclet keyboard is an absolute joy to use.
 
cheets64 said:
In the technology world everybody copies what sells all the time, look at Dyson and its bagless hoover, now every hoover on the market is bagless.
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I'm pretty sure there were no real bagless cyclone vacuum cleaners before the Dyson models, that was innovation.

Not many Apple products have the same level of innovation. There is innovation in making simpler more robust and more ergonomic designs, and also innovation in marketing, but not in the technology itself. Apple make solid designs that appeal to many, full stop.
 
D.P. said:
I got to agree, very bizarre behaviour. Anyone would think Jobs was the Pope, Stephen Hawking, their own family member.
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Same. Seems the only people I know making this a big thing are those people that allow their possessions (i.e. their APPLE product) control their lives. Sad. That said, it's a shame someone lost their life so tragically.
 
Raymond Lin said:
They manage to take an existing idea and then do it better than everyone else. Then everyone else copy them.
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No, you just said it yourself, it wasn;t a better idea, it was worse, like 2G etc. What they did do is take existing ideas and sell them to numb nuts :D that's what they managed to do better than everyone else.
 
Numb nuts lol that made me laugh. More so the fact that no other numb nuts in all the other tech companies managed to do the same to the market as they did.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Numb nuts lol that made me laugh. More so the fact that no other numb nuts in all the other tech companies managed to do the same to the market as they did.
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Oh blah blah :p I simply refer to the fact that (for me) paying £XXX for an iphone when I can get a market equivalent for free is just ridiculous. If you like the iphone, and it's what you want then great, personal choice isn't it! If they offered it me free on contract I'd probably take one. I laugh when people I know winge about money though, then they go buy an iphone, because it's the must have gadget, Must have in the sense they've been convinced they must have it.

If you haven't got an iphone, then you haven't got an iphone. Well, yeah, I have, but in HTC form, for cheaper :p

Your same logic applies to Eastenders... it's crap, but the nation still watches it!
 
Captain Planet said:
Oh blah blah :p I simply refer to the fact that (for me) paying £XXX for an iphone when I can get a market equivalent for free is just ridiculous. If you like the iphone, and it's what you want then great, personal choice isn't it! If they offered it me free on contract I'd probably take one. I laugh when people I know winge about money though, then they go buy an iphone, because it's the must have gadget, Must have in the sense they've been convinced they must have it.

If you haven't got an iphone, then you haven't got an iphone. Well, yeah, I have, but in HTC form, for cheaper :p

Your same logic applies to Eastenders... it's crap, but the nation still watches it!
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Don't start another Android argument, please. There have been enough of them already.

You said it yourself, if the iPhone is best for you, that's why you should buy it. If people don't want to research or care about their phone but want a smartphone, they will buy the iPhone based on the public perception it is the best phone.

There's nothing more to it, it's not like it's a rip-off, it's an excellent device.
 
jas72 said:
Probably said already but ipad changed everything as well. Experts pannned it but 30 million have been sold and even Window8 is for the tablet all thanks to the "pad"
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Not really... Windows 7 was optimised massively for tablets and that was released way before the iPad. Rumors around at around that time were that windows 8 was going to be even more tablet optimised.

And what was the first mobile of the modern OS to be used on a Tablet? That would be Android... With tablets announced and demonstrated a month before the iPad was announced (in fact before the conference was even announced)...

As I said Apple are masters of "just in time" technology. Getting there just after the market opens up with their version, then the marketing and knowledge that there are several million guarenteed sales (to certain apple faithful who will buy almost anything they make). That alongside a nicely smooth and generally user friendly product (even if it is missing features at first release) meant they got the dominant position at the start of the race. Subsequently though they will then (generally) be overtaken in market share by other companies as the product becomes more mainstream (read cheap) and budget brands start selling tons of products. There is still space for the premium products however (such as high end HTC's, Samsungs, Sonys and Apples).
 
I've got an iPad 1 and its quite probably the best gadget I have ever owned. Honestly can't fault it. And i'm a Windows geek!
 
Well it works fine for me on 2 browsers so it's not a problem with my link or The Onion.
 
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