Posts by Abugida

Apple's iCloud runs on Microsoft and Amazon services

iTunes is an Internet service

The iTunes Store/AppStore/iBookStore combo has been working very well for a long time, serving 100 million downloads per day now, handily outcompeting similar stores run by Google, Amazon and Microsoft. So I don't think this is an issue of Apple failing at server technology as several have suggested. This seems to be purely about scale. And who says that Apple never used data center partners like Akamai before?

This witch-hunt will hurt Adobe more than Apple

Some cursory glance at history

> Adobe and Apple love story go way back back and Adobe was not the one who broke up. Apple (as a company) did not either. Both companies slept together for the last decade, feeding on crea-type people smugness. but then Mr Jobs went all control-freak and broke the deal.

That's wrong, it clearly was Adobe. Adobe has been very slow to support Mac OS X ever since they made Windows their top priority in the late 90s. They were the last to move their products from Classic Mac OS to native OS X in 2003 and they were the last to move from Power PC to Intel in 2007. They still don't use the recommended Cocoa frameworks.

Each time they were years behind the Mac OS software published by Apple, Microsoft and the indie devs and dragged the advancement of the whole platform down.

That's just one of the reasons why a lot of those crea-types have been somewhat annoyed by Adobe for quite some time (some others being their gouging update policy and their increasingly quirky non-standard user interfaces which look alien on both Mac and Windows).

> Then someone at Mcintosh went all power-freak, took the power off of the users and drove them in Microsoft's open arms.

Not Microsoft, but IBM. In 1982-83, IBM came to control the business market with their IBM PCs. MS DOS was just the OS that happened to run on those machines which Microsoft turned into a gold mine by licensing IBM PCs (and thereby almost driving IBM out of business by 1992).

It was the corporate IT department that picked the winner in the 80s, and they wanted IBM PCs because they had been buying IBM machines for 3 decades. Apple's developer policy didn't have anything to do with it. Macs weren't seen as business machines because they looked too friendly.