| I think this man doesn't get it, as a "former executive" he thinks anything in live is money. People write apps for iPhones because they dream to do what they love without working for the man. Of course it is only a remote possibility, but it is real. 99% of the people that went to California searching gold didn't find it, as in SouthAfrica, but the now deeper old mine was discovered by a solitary man looking for gold armed just with a mining pan. There is something in the human spirit that is as valuable as money that makes musicians painters, singers,movie makers or engineers that maybe won't get rich keep trying. Maybe they get to work on what they love. PS: I'm an iPhone App developer myself, since Linux Click an run app store I believed that a "right" implementation of an Appstore was going to be the future. I expected to be Apple the first to to this. In contrast with this executive they just seem to "get it". Steve Jobs is really smart in this too, when he creates something he diminish it, so the competitor's executives see an appstore and say: It's only a mere millions dollar market, not important. IBMs mainframes were the "important stuff", when real money was, mini computers were just "cheap" toys with no real application. People who wanted "job security" deciced to work with the "big boys" because it was safe... until it was not. |