Let’s take a quick moment and zip back to the year 2000. No one would ever believe that there could be a computer that could hold all all your music, or that it would fit in your hand. For those of you with the original iPods, take one out and compare it to the gleam of your iPhone. I must assume that we all agree that what apple does is unparalleled.
In less than 10 years apple has come to control the music player industry and a huge chunk of music distribution. Not to mention the whole time coming out with several releases OS X, iLife, and iWork. Oh, and the hardware updates to go with it.
In the meantime, microsoft has spent the past decade creating the worlds most annoying OS. Vista… :)
What drives apple’s success, apart from Steve Jobs, is the people. Someone once told me about a concept that I will call the “Star Treck Effect” (STE). He told me, the reason we have apple is because people who watched Star Trek set out to make the amazing things they saw on TV. The all-in-one comunicators (iPhone anyone?), amazing medical technology that scans you and tells you what’s wrong (MRI?), phazer beams (well… the handheld version is in the works), and more.
I am more exited than ever by the copycat products other mediocre companies like Dell and HP are releasing. With touchscreen computers and other maclike products, whatever they come up with apple will top it with something revolutionary. Apple has created the tech arms race. When apple came out with the iPhone, other manufacturers did everthing they could to downplay the iPhone. And yet now we see every cell carrier has bent to the demands of their customers and are rushing out iPhone clones.
With apple there’s always something to look forward to. That’s the worst thing and the best thing about them. :)
Tags: 2000, Apple, iPhone, touchscreen
