I love how s0me of the tech press keeps saying “Is there room for one more?”, in regards to Windows Phone 7. It is a bit funny to me how they talk about the iPhone and Android, but then gloss over RIM and Nokia to point to Palms lack of traction in the market as proof that WP7 is DOA on arrival.
Investor Dave McClure at Google’s I/O conference in San Francisco said “Open is for losers”. He cited the iPhone and how successful it has been and that it is a completely closed world. You come in through Apple, play on Apple approved rides and pay Apple a premium for the amusement park.
According to the article at Venturebeat.com
Many of the other investors on the panel immediately grumbled about McClure’s response, offering the Internet and Google as examples of successful open technologies.
One of the questions I am constantly wondering is “why are so many of the technology writers against Microsoft”. Seriously, this is actually one of those things I wonder all the time. They are not supposed to be “Joe Shmoe” that only knows that Microsoft was sued for being a monopoly (10 years ago) or some old perception. They are supposed to be “in the know”, “in the loop”, have a deep knowledge of the industry and let’s not forget journalists. Instead it is non-stop “bash Microsoft”. Sure Microsoft deserves their fair share of criticism. Microsoft has made sub par products or not kept up with the market, but who hasn’t made mistakes? But the technology writers root for Microsoft to fail and it doesn’t take reading between the lines to notice it.
I was just reading on FoxNews that University of Missouri’s journalism school is requiring incoming freshmen to us Apple Macs and iPhone/iPods. I would actually find this important if journalism was a growing business. Since everybody blogs and journalism has turned into nothing but blogging, then who cares….
It’s not like 20% of journalists have disappeared in the last 10 years. Or every major paper in the US has seen its revenue and circulation decline… Oh wait, that is happening…
Which brings to mind, who gets a journalism degree anymore? What career advisor told them that was a good place to go?
I have decide that I won’t read CNET any more. It has become an “Apple’s perfect”, “Microsoft Sucks” and a shill for the Obama administration. It’s sad, I have been an avid reader of CNET for a long time and used to consider their reporting and reviews excellent. I relied on them for years to give me solid information and well formulated reviews. Now the marketing department for Apple is a more series source of information that CNET. I might as well read PR statements and forget about CNET! Something happened about 5 years ago, I can’t put my finger on it, but they just left journalism and headed towards yellow journalism. Now they are just another worthless blog spouting an opinion and claiming they are “serious journalists”. I have to call it a day and move on from relying on CNET. I have found myself only going there to see how bad they have become and no longer as a source of news.