Apples actual response to the Flash issue

[chris livermore]

Wow! well said Kay... commonsense is back in town.

On 03/05/2010, at 6:34 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:

> Ah, been gone for a couple of hours and come back to exactly what I
> expected. Not a single List member nominated another List member as  
> being
> more capable of running Apple than Steve Jobs.
>
> And not for want of campaigning. Some very spirited and some rather  
> long
> posts clearly trying to persuade the masses to vote their way, but  
> in the
> end not a single mind was changed, not a single prejudice altered -  
> although
> I much enjoyed the Electrical Engineers manifesto ;-)
>
> So what it all boils down to is, some of us think Steve is wrong,  
> and some
> of us think that Steve is right, but regardless of whether he's  
> right or
> wrong, ALL of us know, deep down inside, no matter how much it pains  
> us,
> that Steve + Apple - Flash will make a whole heap more money than  
> [your name
> here] + Apple + Flash. And everyone on the List agrees ;-)
>
> And the sediment left in the bottom is actually the pile of all our  
> own
> prejudices,  failings, misgivings, inadequacies, lack of vision and  
> lack of
> confidence.
>
> I, and I know others on this List, don't see the point of an iPad.  
> If I were
> running Apple it would be an unmitigated failure because I have no
> confidence in the product, no vision on what it could do, no talent  
> on how
> to market it, and no drive to see it through. It wouldn't matter if I
> listened to everyone on this List and added all the bells and  
> whistles it's
> critics are complaining about. It would be a failure.
>
> But in Steve's hands I know it will be a success. I've been blown  
> away by
> what some people have dreamt up for the thing. After seeing this:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffFmtQWrYNg
>
> If I had grandchildren, I'd buy one for them, not question. My wife  
> will
> undoubtedly buy one, regardless of my 'what for???' protests. And if I
> somehow manage to get out of paying for it, she'll persuade her work  
> to buy
> a couple.
>
> Some think that the Flash decision is wrong, but really all they are
> reflecting is the fact that they themselves couldn't make it work  
> because of
> all their own sediment.
>
> Whether it's right or wrong isn't anywhere near as important as  
> whether
> Steve can continue to make money without Flash, and I, and I'm sure  
> most on
> this List, deep down, believe he can. Steve knows the market, knows  
> how to
> spin things, knows where he's headed, knows the steps to get there,  
> knows
> what life is like with Flash, and has a good handle on what life  
> will be
> like without Flash, and it is he who has chosen the time to pull the  
> plug.
>
> The Future will shortly be History repeating itself.
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