Comments on: The Tuesday Signal: Birth of Another Orifice

By: Craziest Gadgets Jeff

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:42:14 +0000

in the end good design and engineering will win. consumers just want the newest and best products. give apple a 2+ year head start on products like the ipod and iphone and they easily reach the critical mass of popularity to snowball over any open latecomers like the droid. first to market advantage in tech industry is critical- look at the kindle.

By: ray

ray — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:03:24 +0000

there is a creative tension between individual experience and the openess of the web as a platform, which businesses will find increasingly difficult to defend their models business against. because as you rightly stated open wins in the end. my gut tells me that android in the next 24 months will pave the way the show this as a model that works.

this begs the question how do you create a defensible business model in the information age?

talent?

By: mike

mike — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:42:51 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. One thing that’s been starting to irk me is iTunes itself which, if you’re not running it on a Mac, is extremely user-unfriendly and clunky. It’d be nice if Apple could split into two divisions, Open and Commercial, a la WordPress, where customers have a choice between their way or a more collaborative experience.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:36:34 +0000

" everyone now understands that the web is *the* platform for business, and many are now busy applying very old school business models to this new platform: control distribution, control content, control identity, control any place where value accrues. It's the orifices all over again, with Apple leading the way."

Uuuuhh....I could be wrong but did My O'Reilly just say capitalism is bad?

By: Mike Stanislaus

Mike Stanislaus — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:31:17 +0000

"Is the era of the messy-but-open web coming to a close?"

Not as long as there's money to be made. iPhone domination? Check back next year after Android has had a few laps. iPad? Don't hold your breath for it to slay the mighty Kindle all on its own. If people seriously make pad readers the book format of choice, China will start cranking out cheap readers and pull the rug out from under Kindle long before iPad can. Anyone remember the dominance of iPod? Sorry, couldn't hear the answer, my cheap korean 16GB mp3 player was on...

As long as there are people willing to put out money for a particular type of usability, there will be companies all over the globe willing to bring them that usability at competetive prices.