iOS vs. Android: WWDC 2019

The Good:

- Apple don't need the market to tell them what to do. In fact, they are always late to the market. I think they choose their battles wisely. Of course it's nice of the other manufactures to test the waters ahead. Will they close the gap on cost? No. But they don't need to! They are the richest company in the world. When a new Ferrari is released due say "it's amazing, but they failed to close the cost gap to the Mondeo, what a fail!".

- One of the things Apple have going for it is good quality 3rd party accessories and the security aspects. Other than that Android is streets ahead. Both these positions worry me somewhat as I no longer trust either company with the information I seem to giving them. I would be quite happy to pay X % month knowing that I will suffer no advertising my data no matter what will not be passed onto to third parties. Ideally this will be European based. I can't find anything to fit that bill. Not that I am doing anything wrong to worry either but it does sit well. Especially this smart health business. That's why I build my own ROMs for my Samsung S8. I build my own security into my smartphone!! Here's a very ancient how-to I wrote a few years ago (I must update it to the current trends in Google and Samsung; alas, no time...) 

- I think this WWDC marked the beginning of Apple slowing shifting away from Steve Jobs' legacy. Apple is integrating with more outside services (Healthkit / Homekit, 3rd party keyboards), they are updating their coding framework with the biggest changes in Apple's history (for developers) and it is clear they will keep on pushing into the 'phablet' sector, something SJ wasn't keen on.

The so-and-so:

Why on earth would Apple 'particularly' want to help their own developers write apps for their competitors? That statement goes without saying, no? iOS has been hugely attractive to developers since it was launched, just look at the stats. iOS users spend much more money on apps and more time their devices more and Android owners use theirs.

The bad:

Apple is still a niche player and it will always will be. Some 80% of smartphone users globally are on Android and this number appears to be growing. iOS/Apple on the other hand, continues to lose market share where they have dropped to a 15% global market share. In the past few years, this Apple market share number keeps falling, especially in the North America and Europe, traditional strong-holds. Apple is a pimple on the horizon in most developing economies.....India, Indonesia, Brazil, etc. Apple needed to pull out the stops to stem the blood-letting, and Android has the lion's share of the high-end market too (Samsung to name just one)! The bottom-line here is: has Apple done enough or will it be a permanent niche player? Will it always be a closed and proprietary ecosystem? It remains to be seen.

Bottom-line: Most of the early adopters of iPhone I know have now moved to Android (with one exception: a guy I work with). I think as people get more savvy, the shift to Android will just accelerate. The bottom line is that Apple is a minority player in the phone market and smartphone market. The gap is growing, too. It will continue to grow while Apple insist on such a limited range and exorbitant pricing structure. Will I ever use an iPhone? As I usually say, that depends. The moment Apple allows me to do what I can presently do with my Samsung S8 is the moment I'll leave them behind and be the first in line to buy an iPhone. Sadly that moment hasn't arrived yet as the WWDC 2019 just showed.

If you are reading this from the future: Please, please, please do not imagine we in the early XXI century were all shallow, intellectually and emotionally stunted consumer-types doing circle jerks over metal and plastic gadgets. A healthy proportion of Portugal's population in the future couldn't give a toss about all this bollocks, both iOS and Android... 

European Union: "Artificial Inteligence" by Noah Berlastsky

(Original Review, 2014-10-31)

Dear Barroso, Dear Malstrom and other commissioners,

If you want to achieve economic growth in Europe, you should stop bribing politicians as the Governments of Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Czech, Hungary ...and the Central Bankers. We all know you thought-control them on the nets of Telecom Austria, Telenor ... with implants ...to quote European Parliament "converging technologies, shaping the future of european societies" - "there will be politicians with implants and control in this manner". We all know Commissioners, ECB, EC, EBRD employees have such implants and act together. We know you offer a "better life" to the CEE servants if the betray their countries, a little bit. We all know how you manipulate Ukraine and media.

There is a doubling in M1 for 5-6 year in the EUROZONE, which led to high Stock Prices only without significant growth. There is declining inflation, and according to the quantitative theory of money prices should nearly follow the quantity of money in the long run. The USA economy is growing, the EU not. So if prices do not increase, the competitiveness is not good and there will not be profits for the companies so the Stock Exchange Index may be a bubble. I am not sure how much you earn from stealing from CEE, but it is not enough for growth. I am also not aware how thought control influence the economic growth theories, but I suppose as Greenspan says if there is leverage and bubble the crisis may be substantial due to animal spirit. So we do not need bluff for economic growth but fair game from now onward to some extent.

Now, as you Barroso sent people to bribe me, implanted me with a device for though-control involuntary and threatened me to earn 50 BLN from the crisis you organized in Bulgaria, I will dare to give some advices. Do not sent Draghi to ask why people do not believe the european institutions and there is only 30% support. Why 50% believe there will not be EU which is suspiciously stable figure in the eurobarometer? Do not organize cartels on the domestic companies in EU, do not use though-control above law and industry and do not control communications of the aforementioned countries Central Banks and Banking System. Do not organize speculative crises hiding behind Sorors or other speculators. Do not steal resources from these countries. Is the expression "the information is the new oil" origination from EU? Establish fact in economics is that the stability and law lead to economic growth. You can't take 3 BLN EUR from Bulgaria, 1.5 BLN EUR with Austria Banks cartel in Bulgaria and thought-control on the net of Telecom Austria.

What is the last and only value of EU - the profit. Even Marx says, that if you still want the same return on capital, which concentrates in 10% of the people, there will be a revolution because employees do not receive enough output. If there is not technological progress, there is not going to be more output and we can expect revolution in one or another form. Think for sharing knowledge with CEE such as thought-control technologies. You are not a businessman, do not strive for short term profits. Do you risk trillions of EUR if bribing, thought-control and cheating of companies as Siemens, Telecom Austria (a nice experiment example), SAP, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Apple is revealed to act together with EU authorities to control the EU (I have proofs for some of them only). Do not steal from small countries with companies and cheap PR for some EU funds (some of them stolen from EU). Do not make fun of us, or every European Citizen sooner or latter [2018 EDIT: sic] will know what are you doing and will interpret the information correctly. In particular, do not extinct the Bulgarian nation for the simple reason of economic profits.

We can't shake hands with you, because you do not know if I will hold a check for 1,500 EUR and you for 1 million EUR as it seems to be the established practice in EU. The odds of this game are trillions to 1, think what chance I have and decide if you want to play "music-lover ". Tell Malstrom not to kill people as in Perm, or Burgas as ultimatum or probably the Mall in Latvia, or Smolenks for which I receive info in advance because Stalin and USSR was another union. Strive for knowledge, values with higher return not bribing. Information nowadays is everywhere and EU citizens have about 100BLN EUR, not neurons in neural networks to interpret the information correctly.

[2018 EDIT: Eduardo Barroso is a Portuguese Politician who for 10 years lead the EU.]