"The Pre represents only a first shot. Rubinstein and his engineers are already preparing a family of devices that will run on the Palm Web OS. Could it be that Apple has staked out an early lead with a breakthrough product only to be passed by others? Its happened before."
Daniel Lyons is an American writer. He was a senior editor at Forbes magazine and a writer at Newsweek before becoming editor of ReadWrite. In March 2013 he left ReadWrite to accept a position at HubSpot.
"Steve Jobs has created his own precious little walled garden. Hes looking more and more like Howard Hughes, holed up in his penthouse, making sure he doesnt come in contact with any germs. Now Google is saying, hey, nice garden, have fun sitting in it. By yourself."
Daniel Lyons"Despite all its bluster about innovation, Apple has become a copycat, and not even a good one."
Daniel Lyons"People who cover Apple figured this racket out a long time ago, which is that if you become cozy with Apple and never criticize them, they will give you some access."
Daniel Lyons"I hate to say it but Apple may end up reliving [with iPhone] its nightmare experience in the personal computer market — that is, arriving ahead of everyone else (in 1984) with a device that was really cool and really well built and really showed what the platform could do, but then keeping everything closed and thereby ending up a niche player."
Daniel Lyons"We had hoped a tablet from Apple would do something new, something weve never seen before. Thats not the case. Jobs and his team kept using words like "breakthrough" and "magical," but the iPad is neither."
Daniel Lyons"Apple might sell a lot of watches to the faithful, and no doubt the bozos will line up outside stores again just because they love to stand outside in lines. Look at me! Im so techie!"
Daniel Lyons