The iPhone Wrap: Anti-Apple Sentiments; Schiller Talks Again; Ideas For What He Should Say
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Preface: Here’s the next few chapters of an ongoing saga about how Apple is or is not being fair when it comes to its practices on the iPhone:
Chapter One: There’s even more people ending their love affair with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). In this chapter, Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo.com, a human powered search engine, says breaks down his reasons in five parts. In his controversial post, he summarizes: “Apple will face a user revolt in the coming years based upon Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and other yet-to-be-formed companies, undercutting their core markets with cheap, stable and open devices. Apple’s legendary comeback ability will be for naught if they don’t deeply examine their anti-competitive nature.”
Chapter Two: Folks like Calacanis be damned, there’s nothing wrong with the iPhone. Just read this novel on TechCrunch about how if you make great products, you can get away with a lot. Simply put, the backlash brewing against Apple is limited to a handful of journalists and developers. “The fact remains that Apple’s business is stronger than it has ever been.”
Chapter three and four after the jump…
Chapter Three: Remember Apple developer Steven Frank, who said he was quitting the iPhone? Well, Apple’s SVP Phil Schiller emailed him to ask him to reconsider. Frank writes: “I haven’t sought Phil’s explicit permission to republish the letter, so I won’t do so here. But to summarize, he said: “we’re listening to your feedback”. Not all of my suggested solutions were viable, he said, but they were taking it all in as they continue to evolve the app store.” Frank may just cave.
Chapter Four: Schiller’s email to Frank is the second time he’s reached out recently, so as long as Schiller is talking, there’s some other stuff we want answers to. Here’s six questions that MobileCrunch would like answered, including what is Apple’s App Store policy and how does AT&T (NYSE: T) get involved?
Posted In: Legal, Regulatory, Marketing, Technologies / Formats, Browsers, Operating Systems, Companies, Apple, iPhone, AT&T
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