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The solution is not to raise VC money. Without VC money, the entrepreneur can pivot on the mobile strategy exactly when it makes sense – not because VCs are demanding a mobile strategy.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/09/25/the-tech-crunch-apple-backlash-myth/

“I might feel slightly sad, but I won’t cry…”

Apple is just Apple.

Walled Garden is everywhere, not just Apple or Microsoft.

An open garden doesn’t necessarily means it’s the best garden for consumers or developers to invest in.

Too much choices will also confuse and exhaust people. Even though we shouldn’t limit choices.

I never invest so much time and interest for software development, before recognizing the smooth and streamlined system provided by Apple with Mac OS X and iPhone.

App Store is flawed, but look at how many people from various expertise level have been releasing apps for it.

Actually compare to Google – missing much of the cool design ethic but delivering the execution of their core products better than anyone by a mile = ridiculous success as well.

However, not all is ‘open’ … iPhone limits ‘competitive’ apps, and we will continue to see more apps getting rejected because they compete with Apples’ core product … or they’ll be accepted once Apple has integrated the features it into their core iPhone apps products (see case history of Excel and Lotus 1-2-3). Case in point … why won’t Apple let you build a ‘web app’ in their mobile Safari with an embedded QT player? They don’t want to allow anyone to create a competitor to iTunes!

If you really believe the ‘walled garden’ exists to help ensure a consistent user experience, I have some land to sell you in the Florida Everglades … great stuff … no really, trust me!

Wasn’t it Bezos who said , “Just do difficult stuff well”.

Can Apple keep up this rate of quality innovation/execution?

Re the author’s points

1) ie continue to up the ante on emotional resonance

2) cool – the easiest bit for Apple to execute on, they are defining it now, look what they did for computer stores, once the worst retail experience now the best , single handedly!

3) who knows? but if the mobile browser can the make a better app than the one in the phone, what real difference would this make to Apple? They have such a tiny part of the whole mobile phone market and such a head start on innovation that they surely have lots of “superprofit” here for a decade. I don’t see Nokia ever catching up.

And yes, Keynes was on the money…. as usual.

The other 92% assume things will stay the same, whether it be no-one is fired for choosing Microsoft, or saying that Apple defines the future of technology and media.

The iPhone is great success, and definitely what the mobile industry needed. But mobile cloud access of tomorrow needs platform independence not to limit sharing and creation.

I would like to get in contact with you Paul, email me since we are looking for investors with knowledge and understanding to complement the investors we have in place in the coming round.

/Jonas

Your comment holds no merit in reality.

While the Apple App store is flawed, from a technical standpoint and from in it’s business practices – I have to argue that it is better than the Andriod Market at least for the time being.

On the technical side, only with Donut will the Android Market get screenshots, proper product description sections, and a cleaner layout.

From the business practices point of view, I would rather take a larger selection of “garden-ed” apps, rather than a meagre selection of “open” apps. Furthermore, open markets are generally buggier and beta-er in their existance. Consumers shy away from what they believe is not fully baked software or hardware, whether this holds any truth in reality or not. An open source platform that will have hunders of variations of kernels, builds, and hardware will be an incredibly hard market to support. Apps will require limitations and strict hardware specs. Having to support 2 or 3 or 10 hardware variations is much easier and more sustainable, and allows for more consistent software delivery.

The mobile marketplace is not like the home computer marketplace where the average hardware capabilities will consistently run the same software without much variation. On top of that, the consumer has been conditioned to deal with system outages on desktop hardware. Not so, with mobile hardware. The uptime on mobiles has to be much more reliable and there is much less hardware capability wiggle room for applications on mobiles. This means that apps will have to be developed for the lowest common hardware denominator or risk excluding consumers/handsets due to incompatibilities or overtaxation of hardware.

This is unavoidable even with Apple’s approach, but they have far more control over it that the competitors.

AAC is the industry standard, non-proprietary successor to MP3 offering better quality at the same bit rate (and hence disk space). Nintendo might be the first to break the link with the past with the DSi but I don’t think they’ll be the last.