Rather than focusing on the incremental innovation needed to win back the attention of enterprise users and premium consumers, Google’s vision for Android this year has again leapt in new directions which appear even less attainable. Android’s scattered, imitative strategies du jour are resulting in a platform that looks a lot like Apple’s—albeit the very unsuccessful Apple of the mid 90s.
This is a really interesting article from Daniel Eran Dilger. It will certainly be interesting to see what Apple does at WWDC.
Jeez. Do people really take him seriously? I stopped reading AI when he started writing for them. He writes the most slanted pieces in the business. They read like large chunks are prewritten, then cobbled together as the occasions arise.
You’re not an Apple fan then, one assumes?
Well Android/Google is big on the “moonshot” thing right? They push out a lot of “alpha” ideas and see what sticks. Apple usually keeps new ideas internal until they have a bit more traction, or releases them with low expectations and gradually improves them. Apple needs to open up a Siri API this WWDC. Otherwise they are definitely lagging on the “intelligent assistant” front versus Amazon and Google.
There are a lot of great points in a DED article. Shame it takes him 5,000 words to get to those points. His deal with AI must be by the word.
I’m fine with long form content, but I got to “Google has problems Steve Jobs would have had trouble fixing” and thought surely this was the wrap up. Nope. Only halfway through. A couple thousand more words to go.
yeah — while i agree w/ DED on his points, he hasn’t realized that saying more with less is a feature, not a bug.
you stopped reading an Apple enthusiast site, because theyre enthusiastic about apple….. “Riiiight….”
He’s always been verbose, but he’s been able to tone down his style a bit since Roughly Drafted.
There is a difference (a huge difference) between being enthusiastic and being irrational. Dilger spends spends most of his time on the wrong side of that line. There is never, never an excuse for being irrational about your pet topic (either pro or con). If you can’t be right because you’re right, then maybe you’re not right and you need to reassess the lay of the land. Dilger’s world is too fun of paper tigers.
I’m a big Apple fan. Apparently I’m a better fan than you, because I like Apple for its products and its design, and not because it’s my side in a us-vs-them battle. I understand that you’re either in favor of something for the right reasons, or your opinion is suspect. I enjoy everybody else’s articles there except his. He was unhinged long before he joined AI.
No one is perfect. I agree with the people at The Loop mostly and disagree with them sometimes. I don’t disagree on a lot of topics, but where I do disagree, it doesn’t make me “not of the body.” They seems like a pretty rational group. When you’re a little older you’ll understand that people can disagree and still be on the same team. But you’ll also recognize that sometimes people cross a line where their opinions are prewritten, and all their arguments are after-the-fact rationalizations.
I like Apple as using their products has kept me gainfully employed since 1981. So I think my Apple fanboy status is significantly higher than yours.
You’re entitled to your own opinion but honestly, he’s often the only person calling out the bullshit surrounding the anti-Apple press.
Fanboy. No one should every aspire to be a “fanboy”. It implies an irrational, uninformed quality to one’s enthusiasm. You can have that label. I’ll stick with being a fan who likes Apple for what it does well, and not because I’ve got Apple’s sigil branded on my soul.
“Apparently I’m a better fan than you,”
Just riffing on your own words. I made no claims to being a fan before you raised the point.
You two should step back and read what you have written. Kind of embarrassing.
That’s the problem with following the leader.
You don’t control your own destiny.
And you have zero foresight.
It’s all just knee-jerk reaction when the leader moves.
Good luck with that Android stolen property, Google.
There aren’t many good points. DED is doing the opposite of anti-Apple pundits. His modus operandi is so transparent that it’s funny. Anti-Apple critics say Apple can’t innovate anymore and is just playing catchup. And DED says Android updates have no innovation and are just playing catchup.
Yet, take a look at what open-minded Apple acolytes like Marco Arment and John Gruber are saying after Google I/O. They certainly believe Google is innovating. Who do you believe?