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Steve Wozinak Speaks to Bloomberg about Smart Phone Patent Wars.
But Steve Jobs also sued 14 year old bloggers, parked in handicapped spots, and (my beef) took credit infamously and greedily for other peoples ideas. See Wired News articles... (but beware of flame-baiting your blog)...
My position in this industry was built by reading Digitimes, a Taipei-based tech journal which I started subscribing to about 10 years ago. It was mainly about displays, displays, displays then. I was able to predict and ride the sales of CRTs when the demand curve was outpacing the LCD supply curve, due to increasing demand projected in emerging markets, I was able to find Taiwanese-owned contract manufacturers, and I became who I am by riding Taiwanese coat-tails. And here's the truth - Windows and IBM released their hardware, the PC clones, rather than open-source their software (as Google has now done) and the deal worked. The Asian Tigers engineered and tinkered and produced PC Clones into a massive industry. And the biggest thing you wanted to clone, 50% of the cost of a computer, was the CRT monitor.
Apple had to outsource their displays, they had nowhere near the market share to produce their own, not even close, in the 1990s. And they outsourced them to Japan (Sony Trinitron), and did not develop the ties with Proview, BenQ, Wistron and Foxconn which others in the industry developed. Apple tried to keep control, when Windows and IBM were PC-cloning, and tries to keep control as Google is Androiding. But eventually, they had to come work to discover the IPhone prototype.
The Taiwanese became to display devices what Japan had become to automobiles. In fact, it drove Beijing nuts that Taiwan was becoming outsource-in-chief to Japanese manufacturing, drove the Communist Party so nuts that they tried to corner the entire CRT manufacturing market, buying out all the furnaces and dumping subsidies into the manufacture... in 1999. (Newbies).
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Steve Wozniak, the engineer-geek who co-created Apple Computer with Steve Jobs, was ever the good cop. Yes, Jobs was a visionary, yes he was an orphan, yes he climbed up from the bottom, and yes he got blindsided by IBM when richie rich kid Bill Gates' Parents (who were on IBM's Board of Directors) got Gates a personal meeting to pitch Windows... Perhaps those tender moments influenced Jobs, perhaps he grew up tough.“I hate it,” Wozniak said when asked about the patent fights between Apple and Samsung. “I don’t think the decision of California will hold. And I don’t agree with it -- very small things I don’t really call that innovative.“I wish everybody would just agree to exchange all the patents and everybody can build the best forms they want to use everybody’s technologies.”
But Steve Jobs also sued 14 year old bloggers, parked in handicapped spots, and (my beef) took credit infamously and greedily for other peoples ideas. See Wired News articles... (but beware of flame-baiting your blog)...
My position in this industry was built by reading Digitimes, a Taipei-based tech journal which I started subscribing to about 10 years ago. It was mainly about displays, displays, displays then. I was able to predict and ride the sales of CRTs when the demand curve was outpacing the LCD supply curve, due to increasing demand projected in emerging markets, I was able to find Taiwanese-owned contract manufacturers, and I became who I am by riding Taiwanese coat-tails. And here's the truth - Windows and IBM released their hardware, the PC clones, rather than open-source their software (as Google has now done) and the deal worked. The Asian Tigers engineered and tinkered and produced PC Clones into a massive industry. And the biggest thing you wanted to clone, 50% of the cost of a computer, was the CRT monitor.
Apple had to outsource their displays, they had nowhere near the market share to produce their own, not even close, in the 1990s. And they outsourced them to Japan (Sony Trinitron), and did not develop the ties with Proview, BenQ, Wistron and Foxconn which others in the industry developed. Apple tried to keep control, when Windows and IBM were PC-cloning, and tries to keep control as Google is Androiding. But eventually, they had to come work to discover the IPhone prototype.
The Taiwanese became to display devices what Japan had become to automobiles. In fact, it drove Beijing nuts that Taiwan was becoming outsource-in-chief to Japanese manufacturing, drove the Communist Party so nuts that they tried to corner the entire CRT manufacturing market, buying out all the furnaces and dumping subsidies into the manufacture... in 1999. (Newbies).
