As was mentioned above, I too try to be as unbiased as possible ...
I have to be unbiased--in I.T., you have to work with any system you come across. And since I'm freelance, I can't go off ranting on apple as it will alienate some of my clients.
... but Apple is being a little absurd right now. They could be such an awesome company with great products but they can't keep their focus long enough to continue forward.
It's like I keep saying: if you can't innovate, litigate. Their energies and resources are now going into the courtroom, not the laboratory. Holy Man™ is gone now; my humble prediction is that the company is going to lose its way, as it did after the first time Holy Man™ left the company. Granted a lot of these actions started while he was still alive, but he was also at reduced capacity, and had this obsession with killing Android. Not a healthy way of thinking, especially for someone who is supposedly the head of a major corporation. They may go down in history as one of the most obnoxious of patent trolls, once this has all played out.
The only reason they are so preoccupied with Android and Goodle, is because they fear the potential and the momentum.
Or take it a step further with these two words:
market share. Over the history of computing, apple has spent most of its life as the #2 (or lower) platform. Always second banana. They had the upper hand with the iphone, but many of the Blackberry users were as cult-oriented as the apple iphone users. Android came along and pretty much trounced all over both Blackberry and iphone, and is now on top. I don't know why apple hasn't tried to tackle Microsoft as they have anything Android-related; maybe they fear MS because it's a larger company?
My gut feeling is that apple does not want to
license technology to others--they want it
off the devices completely. Why? Again, market share. They could license this technology to Android and make a few pennies from it. But, why do that when it means a sale is lost for the precious iphone? "Here is something
our phones can do that
yours can't."
It's not like they haven't used other technologies themselves either; remember, OSX itself is based on FreeBSD...and for that matter, isn't the iphone also based on Linux at its core?
