I came across a post from Bob Cringely (tech industry blogger), riffing on a recent speech by Roger McNamee (tech VC/investor), arguing that Facebook is “so 2010”. In Silicon Valley, it’s the done thing to skate to beyond where the puck is headed, and to call things old before they are new. But it’s a little far-fetched to declare Facebook as over when it has only so far demonstrated pervasive stickiness and not yet proven a scalable profit model, nor has the “next Facebook” yet emerged!
Tag Archives: Steve Jobs
The Decline and Fall of Facebook? (Not just yet!)
Ten things to fix for iOS 5: don’t try to lock me in with a cloud music storage service, just get the basics of a great UI right!
So Steve Jobs will be making another bunch of announcements about iOS 5 and the revamped iCloud tomorrow (Monday, 6 June, 2011) at Apple’s WWDC (Worldwide Developers’ Conference). The buzz is they’ll re-announce a cloud-based iTunes service that will try to lock Apple-philes into the iOS platform even further by holding captive their personal content and app libraries. I’d rather Apple’s “stickiness” was a great user interface and brilliant functionality that continually improves faster than the competition. So they can achieve that, I’d first like to see Apple make some really basic fixes to iOS:
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