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Ex-Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki: Macs still superior


Kawasaki: I don&#039;t think anyone would use a PC by choice
Kawasaki: I don't think anyone would use a PC by choice









"I use an Android phone - I think Android is better than iOS. For example, Apple doesn't have a wireless charging phone, they were very late to 4G LTE - two years behind everyone else - and it's not really multi-tasking," he told ITP.net.

"There are just things that seem like they're a little too controlling. I want to make Chrome my default browser, but you can't change the default browser on iOS. You know what a swipe keyboard is, where you never lift your finger up? There's no such thing - you can't change keyboards with Apple."

Kawasaki also cited a lack of compatibility with Amazon's Kindle app as a major annoyance with Apple's iOS. "There are things like that that just drive me crazy," he said.

In terms of his preferred smartphone, Kawasaki said that he uses a Motorola Moto X, and that he admires the low-priced Moto G, which recently launched in the Middle East. He claimed that the Moto G, with its low price tag, has "really changed the value proposition for smartphones".

That said, Kawasaki admitted that it wasn't in Apple's DNA to compete at the lower of the market that the Moto G resides in.

"We were always expensive. Back in the Macintosh days, we would have made the case that we offer higher value," he said.

Regardless, many Apple critics have complained that Apple should do more to attract more mid-range customers. An answer was supposed to have come with the iPhone 5C, launched last year, but it turned out that the device still sported a premium price tag, despite featuring a plastic body.

Apple critics have also called on CEO Tim Cook to make good on his promise to enter into new product categories. Rumoured products such as an Apple TV or iWatch have yet to appear, and the company has been accused by many of having lost its touch for innovation.

For his part, Kawasaki said that he had little idea of what Apple currently has in the pipeline.

"Put yourself back in time to 1983, and no-one was asking for a Macintosh, so that's what I hope Apple's working on," he said.