He refers to the iPhone as "a product that shouldn’t sell at all." Every person I've spoken to is either going to get it, or wants it. This is after seeing the Macworld demonstration. Part of it may be marketing, as Mr. Enderle suggests, but I think it's more that Apple has finally created a product that "just works" instead of trying to cram a square peg into a round hole as existing phones have done.

 

"Games are hard to do under the Mac, and that was demonstrated when World of Warcraft crashed on stage."

 

1. Yes, one thread of World of Warcraft crashed, however the game remained running. Mr. Enderle only saw an error box appear. He should have realized when Steve Jobs pulled up Spaces that World of Warcraft was still running. One thread had crashed, but WoW ran on. Kudos to Blizzard for making a solid Mac game.

 

2. Mr. Enderle fails to point out the true reason why there are so few Mac games: Market share. Apple currently has approximately 5% of the desktop market. This appears to be the "tipping point" for companies like EA and id Software to actually focus their own native resources on the Macintosh platform instead of relying on third-party porting companies to ship mac versions after the Windows version was released. Also, the tools for developing games for Mac took until MacOS 10.3 to mature. Since then game development has ramped up quickly. Don't be surprised to see even more games starting to appear for Mac and Windows at the same time (as World of Warcraft did over 2 years ago).

 

Mr. Enderle says "it appears most Mac folks actually prefer Firefox over Safari" without providing data to back it up. I use both Firefox and Safari for my web app development. Both have their issues. However I prefer Safari because it is faster and has more user-friendly features. I use Firefox to make sure things will appear the same on Windows machines as well as Macs. I look forward to using Safari on Windows.

 

By the way, Safari on Windows probably doesn't phase Microsoft, but the Mozilla group should be worried.

 

"Apple had the benefit of seeing Vista months in advance of its shipment and has clearly enhanced Leopard to show well next to it"

 

I think the situation is reversed. Apple showed Leopard's features over a year ago. Most of Leopard's core features were already in place. Also, Tiger had several features now available in Vista long before Vista was even shown to anyone. So nice try Mr. Enderle at attempting to portray Microsoft as the "innovator" and Apple as the "copy cat."