Lots of folks are having a laugh at Apple
A lot of the tech world is taking a moment to have a laugh at Apple, after a lackluster event earlier this week. Here are some of the digs:- Samsung is making fun of the streaming problems Apple had on a new Youtube video called It Doesn't Take a Genius.
- The Telegraph is predicting that AndroidWear will come to quickly dominate the lackluster Apple Watch.
- Macworld Magazine, the venerable journal that has covered Apple since 1984, is shutting its doors.
- The Apple store crashed during preorders for the iphone 6 (OK, we could construe that as good news)
- The Register has panned the Apple Watch as "nothing more than digital perfume" and concludes gadget-mania is over.
- Most damning is this post making the rounds on Google Plus, telling iphone 6 users: welcome to 2012! If you need help with your iphone 6 features, just ask an Android user: we've had this stuff for years.
As we discussed yesterday, from Forbes, "According to CNBC, Peter Garnry, head of equity strategy at Saxo Bank, called the event "the night Apple became average."
Noted tech pundit Zafiro17 concluded "For Apple, that's about the most damning comment they could receive. Being average means they have failed, the 'reality distortion reactor' has stopped spinning, and Apple products are just one of the bunch. What could be worse?"
When your "one more thing" is a widely anticipated watch that underdelivers in EVERY possible way from even the basest expectations and most childish mockups, you've begun to simply suck.
On the one hand, it's nice to see their bizarre ascendancy stall, and on the other hand it's a bit scary going back to a wild west of crappy directionless products from every manufacturer including Apple. The winner in this, of course, is the Googles, who have the uniform platform that underpromises and for the most part overdelivers through the miracle of greed and competition from multiple manufacturers, some of whom are even innovative. (I say this as a libby liberal.)