Steve Jobs: “The end of the PC era is inevitable”
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Steve Jobs has been involved in a long talk in the D8 conference held in California. The Apple boss has assured that we are in the era of the end of the traditional PC. An omen, as formulated, which detailed above. According Jobs, When the U.S. was an agrarian nation trucks because cars were needed on farms. As cities grew began arriving cars with power steering and automatic transmission. “The PC will be like the trucks, there will be but only a small proportion of the population in need.” Jobs argues that advances in processors and chips allow devices like the IPAD do the tasks normally assigned to the desktop. The beginning of the post-PC era is uncomfortable but inevitable. With tablets, for example, “you have a direct and intimate relationship with the Internet, media, applications and contended,” he said. Jobs explained that he conceived the IPAD before the iPhone, but stopped the project because it saw the opportunity to break the phone market, much larger, in number of units, that of computers.
About image filtering Gizmodo’s iPhone, Jobs has said it is not clear that a company engineer in a brewery let him and points out the hypothesis of a robbery. “It’sa great story,” which does not mean sex, which can become a movie. Jobs says that many people advised him not to conflict with Gizmodo and journalist, but has argued that can not afford to buy a property is stolen and that they try to extort money.
Google and Flash
In the dialogue, has treated the competition with Google. Jobs has been for Google who has decided to compete with Apple, referring to its entry into the mobile phone market because the operating system announced Chrome is not yet a reality. “It is they who decided to compete with us because Apple has not entered into the search market.” Jobs rejects talk of war but admits that even in his day looked at the competition from Microsoft as a platform war and perhaps thereby lost. “We are dedicated to building the best product.” Jobs prefers the particular to the corporate market because the consumer decides what he likes and business buying decisions are made by people in departments that at times, “are confusing.”
Jobs has returned to justify its opposition to Flash. Apple says, is successful because he knows choose to be riding horses and recalled that the company, iMac, was the first to leave discs floppy. “If you can choose you save an enormous amount of work.”
Labour exploitation
With respect to the string of suicides in the Chinese factory Foxconn, which assembles the IPAD and other products from Apple and other multinationals, Jobs has expressed concern, said they are investigating the situation but did not think it is a sweatshop . Following these suicides anunicado Foxconn has a 20% wage increase for all workers in their plants. The company maintains that behind the suicides are personal reasons, but several labor lawyers attribute it to pressure aisalmiento productive and social workers. The average monthly wage of an employee of the company is around 112 euros a month, but accumulated overtime can reach 236. Chinese activists have attempt, investigating the employment status of these plants. One of them, who got hired, has been arrested by police and had to sign a confidentiality agreement.
The dialogue has also appeared on the subject of App Store and Apple its control over the contents of the same where, for example, it excludes the erotic type. Jobs reiterated that Apple supports open platforms such as HTML5 and in the case of the Apple Store is a set of rules designed to ensure smooth operation.
Apart from this meeting in California, Jobs used other platforms to explain their positions. One of them, very popular recently by the boss of Apple, is e electronic blackboards. A recent controversy has been open about pornography and censorship of erotic content in Apple applications. In site which, coincidentally, is owned by the same company that Gizmodo, an enraged surfer refused a couple of weeks ago that Apple represent the revolution because the revolution is liberty. And Jobs will respondióque freedom consists in being freed from programs that steal personal Datran, released software that drain the battery “free from pornography. The message concludes with the same idea in California, “times change and some representatives of the traditional PC world feel that their world is in the process of disappearing and they are right.” The porn industry to the evidence that it is impossible enter the business applications Apple is adapting its website, without Flash, so they can be accessible from the browser of an iPhone or an IPAD.
