iPad observation #7: When you’ve built a product that turns whole worlds upside down — what happens next?
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix Real Estate,
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I’ve got more to say, but I’m running out of Sunday. Here’s what’s next:
The iPad is the first move in the disintermediation — disintegration — of dozens of well-established institutions in our society.
Vendors of mediocre crap like Windows computers and Android cell phones are done for. Established on-line retailers are finished. Broadcasting in the spectrum is kaput. Best of all, the union-organized ignorami called schoolteachers will be put out of work.
In a circumstance such as I describe, what would you expect to happen?
My answer? Rotarian Socialism.
When the mediocre feel threatened, they pass laws. When the established face disestablishment, they pass laws. And when the ignorant get organized, they pass laws.
If anyone besides me could clearly foresee what a disruptive influence the iPad is going to be, they would already be clamoring for protection from the awful consequences of free choice.
Here’s the good news: Almost nobody can see what is going to happen. They might be myopic, but at least they’re very proud. They will insist — one may hope until it is too late — that Apple cannot be doing what it clearly is doing.
The bigger threat, in the near term, would be the Antitrust Laws, which say that your company can grow as big as it wants, as long as it’s really mediocre like Microsoft. But if you’re growing because you are satisfying — ecstatifying! — consumer demand, the Feds have to come in and bust your company up.
Here’s hoping that everything that matters in this revolution of the mind will have happened before the Rotarian Socialists can marshall their defenses.
And on that note, I will shut up.
My early posts on the iPad:
- Apple tablet computer announcement liveblogging now…
- The Apple iPad is a category-cataclysm and no one knows it yet: Double-thinking Steve Jobs and his double-suss of the hi-tech marketplace
- iPad observation #1: The iPad is the computer for the rest of us
- iPad observation #2: Find a bigger dead-pool: The iPad eats everything.
- iPad observation #3: If your baby — or a caveman — can figure out how to use the iPad, the user-interface works
- iPad observation #4: Looking for a smart way to connect with your clients in a pull-based marketing world? Update your iPhone/iPad app.
- iPad observation #5: Linking frees slaves, sometimes, but the future of mobile real estate is unknown to attorneys from New York City.
- iPad observation #6: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
- iPad observation #7: When you’ve built a product that turns whole worlds upside down — what happens next?
- iPad observation #8: The death of mediocrity and, along with it, the death of contempt for the consumer
- iPad observation #9: I went digging through the heap of festering garbage that is the Vook and came home with an education.
- iPad observation #10: Is the iPad an unforced error? I say Google and MicroSoft can’t even copy genius.
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“And on that note, I will shut up.”
…lest you tip off a Redmond lobbyist and Washington State Congressman to muck things up before the 1.2 version comes out
> …lest you tip off a Redmond lobbyist and Washington State Congressman to muck things up before the 1.2 version comes out
Check. Mum’s the word.
Greg are you seriously pro trust?
“Vendors of mediocre crap like Windows computers and Android cell phones…”
LOL, I LOVE my Droid!
Everything else you’ve written today though, I like.
As defined by Princeton WordNet: “a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service.”
> Greg are you seriously pro trust?
I’m anti-law. But you’re off-topic and I’m going to bed.
Alright, already.
Where does one go to learn how to design and write apps for the iPhone/iPad?
I’m off to do some serious Googling….
Appcelerator.com is the best place for you to see about building from the ground up. Well, Apple is the absolute best, but that means learning Cocoa and Objective C. There are third-party vendors who will build templated apps for very minor ducats.
An Appcelerator app can be built with CSS and HTML only, or with PHP or Ruby for the brains. Cross-platform, too, with iPad support already announced. You’ll still need the Apple SDK, and you would be submitting to the App store as yourself, not as a vendor, so you would have to jump your own hurdles without help.
This all has me thinking that maybe the next big Unchained should be Real Estate Unwired!