Why the apple bubble is bursting Remember Apple has never been an innovator. The smart phone, tablets , and i pod like devices were all other people's ideas. Steve Jobs had a core of cult like followers who created the Apple mania. That aura is now lost. Remember how under Jobs Apple never even conducted focus group studies . It was assumed that if the deity Jobs approved it, that was good enough for his minion followers.
Well now folks the tide has changed. Jobs is dead and so the light sabre that inspired the masses is now being extinguished. What we have in its place is a boring guy and a culture that never relied on innovation... but on consumer manipulation. Design a phone, give the people alot of toys, convince them that they need all 600 000 apps, charge a rip off price, and yes, ensure that your product is made in the most tyrannical sweat shop in China. Then start dictating to cable companies how you will control the content from now on especially when i TV comes out. Again Samsung is already there. iTV wil be a copy cat with maybe another SYRI voice over, or maybe even the voice of Steve Jobs because when ur a shameless marketer company, dead people is within ur realm of possibilities to exploit also.
Now RIM screwed up too , but my man Thurston Howell the third has been listening. They have been working on this system that stresses security, reliability, and performance to the business elites that depend on these features. And people are now realizing that an app that has one application with 60 different back grounds or endings really is A SINGLE APP. I recall that famous song "22 000 days " by the Moody Blues where the singer (Ray Thomas) says "its not alot its all you got, 22 00 days" .I'd rather be spending my 22000 days on quality than quantity of junk. Apple has lost its biggest asset, Steve Jobs , and the lustre and the mania and the fervor of the followers is crashing. It should because in the end Steve Jobs was no genius, he was a shameless marketer, a tyrant, a guy who even stole from his partner Wozniak, and his arrogance in self determining what the masses want is unravelling. Tim Cook will be the new Mussolini and his effigy will be hung on Wall Street corners where hedge fund big boys and blind retail investors are about to be fleeced and deservedly so for following the actions of a messianic idiot like Jobs.
RIM listened, worked tirelessly to build an entire new operating system, and now has the best system with the best security, with essential applications PREACHING PURPOSE RATHER THAN FRIVOLITY.