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By closing everything off Apple are stifling innovation, regardless of what they can or will do themselves.
True innovation comes from giving as many as possible the possibility to do anything.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Although I vote for Apple... I would say new Windows mobile 8 with its metro applications looks quite cool... its just I haven't had a chance to evaluate it so going by what I have seen... Apple it is!
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Is innovation (as a concept) the being cool?
A cool product is not "innovation": is much more a matter of fashion and design.
Innovation is "changing the way things can be done".
From an i-phone and a W8-mobile I don't see a "boost on innovation": just a market share between two different ways to do very similar things.
The real step to innovation was the introduction of multi-touch screens, wide enough to let "browsing" sustainable. Apple was the first who introduced them, in fact, changing the concept of "phone" and "palm" merging them to a same appliance, thus allowing the deployment of application bridging the two worlds.
Now, until a new user interface paradigm will not be introduced, it no more innovation, but just a matter of design, fashion.
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When I vote for Apple it precisely is for launching iPhone (and not its successors). iPhone with its multi-touch and many other features was an innovation... now a days it is more about copying and some fancy here and there...
But with Win8... there is another new dimension coming in... possibility to use the same gadget as a phone/tablet as well as a regular pc. This is with reference to an idea I read in some article during win8 launch which suggested the requirement of some docking options and more processing power built into the phones (we have already reached dual core now) so that they can be docked and connected to other peripherals and used as a regular pc.
btw... your signature is cool... quite familiar situation 
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... nice expensive toys. Let them duke it out which one of them will eventually take the throne and which ones must go the way of the dinosaurs. Until then I lean back, watch the show, shake my head over all the hysteria and by the way save lots of money.
And from the clouds a mighty voice spoke:
"Smile and be happy, for it could come worse!"
And I smiled and was happy
And it came worse.
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Then you have what I don't have: A good reason to have one of those things. And up to now not even the best salesmen could give me an answer up to now.
And from the clouds a mighty voice spoke:
"Smile and be happy, for it could come worse!"
And I smiled and was happy
And it came worse.
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I'm curious to know: what does a mobile app gives you that a desktop app or website doesn't? Seriously, that's not a rhetorical question.
Do you gain a huge advantage by having notifications always on for example?
'As programmers go, I'm fairly social. Which still means I'm a borderline sociopath by normal standards.' Jeff Atwood
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Thanks, it was very interesting! 
'As programmers go, I'm fairly social. Which still means I'm a borderline sociopath by normal standards.' Jeff Atwood
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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