La Salle Technology Professor: Apple's WWDC Announcements Are "Next Step In Technological Evolution"
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- La Salle University Integrated Business, Science, and Technology professor Bill Weaver spoke with Talk Radio 1210 WPHT's Jeff Bolton about his reaction to Apple's announcements at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) calling it "sort of the next step in technological evolution."
"Necessity is the mother of invention and competition is definitely good. Typically, as long as it's fair, competition and level playing field competition usually when the big boys and the big companies are fighting for users typically the users win and everybody sort of says 'hooray, thank you for making yours all that much better, because your competitors discovered that your particular service had some vulnerabilities or had some things that were lacking and you sort of ignored the users asking for the upgrades but maybe if your competitor came along and started stealing us you'll go ahead and address those...Sometimes this competition can be very fierce and lots and lots of hard battles fought, but when new technology comes along some times it goes ahead and re-levels the playing field and you have to move on."
Seeing that part of Apple's strategy with Apple Music will be going after music streaming services like Spotify, Pandora, and the Jay-Z fronted Tidal, Weaver feels that the newest and least successful of those services(Tidal) will only further decline with the advent of Apple Music. This is at least partly to do with the price that Tidal charges.
"Unfortunately I think it is a bit of arrogance and this sort of comfort with those advisors that that you have surrounding you that say 'sure, sure sure, let's go ahead and build this and they'll come. Your name alone and your exclusivity to music will draw all of these people and they'll be willing to part with $20 a month to listen to your music as opposed to listening to it for free in ad supported things like on Premium Spotify and the like."
Weaver was underwhelmed with the fact that Apple CEO Tim Cook lead with the "rich typography and fun animations" of Apple News.
"Having new fonts was a pretty huge announcement (in 1984), but it's not an announcement in 2015."
