Yeah, one stupid product decision after another has gotten Apple into the mess it’s in today. Apple never gets it right — they have no idea how to produce products people want, and they have no idea how to market anything.
Oh wait ....
Just flinging poo and hoping it sticks, happens with every new product intro from Apple. If Microsoft can be said to have an “ecosystem” at all, it’s populated with MS Certified cranks who come running like lemmings to trash the very product of which they’ll be extolling the virtues once somebody other than Apple figures out how to do it like Apple did.
Like clockwork, every time.
They still haven’t quite figured out how intentionally disruptive Apple is, in any new market segment they choose to enter. All they see is TV? How stupid, there are tons of TV manufacturers. They do not look at the Rube Goldberg contraptions requiring multiple remotes, they do not look at the ancillary uses into which a very large, very high quality monitor could be applied, they do not look at the content delivery that everyone loves to hate.
I think they’ll do quite well with it, but not in the established, orthodox ways that “television” and “cable” are viewed. They’re all about reslicing the pie, disintermediation of middlemen and delivering a revolutionary improvement in the experience, utility and ease of use of the device as well as the content.
There’s a very big “duh” moment coming, from several quarters, none of which have the capacity to capitalize or even compete without major acquisitions and scrambling.
How long have we been waiting for *the* iPad killer now? Three years?