Welcome to this week’s Tech.pinions Podcast.
This week Ben Bajarin, Carolina Milanesi, and Bob O’Donnell discuss Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), analyzing the company’s announcements around iOS9, watchOS, Apple Music and more.
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Hey guys TURN THE MUSIC DOWN when you start talking! It’s dumb when we can’t hear you in the music.
Yeah, sorry about that….my editing mistake…music is supposed to fade!
FYI, it’s now fixed….
Ben states that there is as ‘unmet need for a true mass market “PC” that brings the simplicity of mobile to it.’
Sounds a lot like the market is starting to agree with the otherwise ridiculed quotes from Steve Ballmer when MSFT announced the original Surface (http://bgr.com/2012/10/29/ipad-criticism-steve-ballmer/).
“I don’t think anybody has done a product that is the product that I see customers wanting,” Ballmer said in an interview picked up by AllThingsD.
“You can go through the products from all those guys … and none of them has a product that you can really use. Not Apple. Not Google. Not Amazon. Nobody has a product that lets you work and play that can be your tablet and your PC. Not at any price point.”
There is a lot to like about the Modern Windows platform (of which Windows 10 is a needed evolution) and Surface products. Neither get anywhere near the credit deserved in tech press or from the development community.
Ballmer’s statement above (2012!) still holds true today for non-Surface devices – even with the recently annnounced advances to iOS 9 and multi-tasking.
I’m waiting for iOS 10 to announce a transparent file directory system…