I couldn't help laughing when Steve tried and tried and tried but the pop up window said 'Safari couldn't open page'

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Steve's expressions were worth seeing.

I must say I continue to be humored by all these complaints of a closed Apple garden not tight control on the software etc- I have been developing for the Iphone now for close to two years. My company Multieducator has 30 apps on the Itunes store with 3 for the iPad, and well some times its frustrating to wait for Apple to approve your product- oh yes it can take 1 week to 10 days ( sometimes it happens in hours)- as someone who has been in the software business for close to 20 years, this is the best environment I have ever worked in. Apple has given us software developers a world wide market. Do you know how long and how hard you had to work to get your software into traditional distribution? How many of the people that I did business with over the years went out of business. Now Apple pays us once a month on all products sold and we get to set the price. this is not to talk about the development tools that Apple has, and the tech support both to developers and the public. Google is a great company, but support? I have been working with Google for six years or seven years- and except at a conference I have never spoken to a live person- you think they are going to be the Microsoft of 2010?
Plus to compare then and now is absurd. Apple as the Itunes store which is probably the second biggest online store in the world. It has the most successful stores and one of the most admired brands.
Finally for all the talk of Apple control- how many apps do you think they have turned down in total. Yes twice they have not approved Apps of our because it violated their users interface guidelines- they were right we made mistakes. Would it have been fatal for the user, of course not, but Apple has ensured the fact that everyone who gets an iPhone -iPad applications will know what to expect.

No senior management direction and no real applications development capabilities can be seen here at Apple. Despite being one of the biggest companies in US, it is going through worse conditions now a days. I have seen every downside here i.e. cost cutting, benefit reduction, layoffs, pay cut and what not. Nobody had thought about Apple that tit could ever go through these circumstances.