Apple's 2012 WWDC Event

The Verge has excellent coverage of today's WWDC event.

June is a great month for geeks. Apple and Google both have their huge developer conferences. You can literally see the future being built right in front of your eyes.

Personally, I wish Apple and Google were still all buddy-buddy but that's just not possible anymore. Apple's release of their own mapping solution highlights this fact. iOS users finally have turn-by-turn. Big day for them! Ultimately it's a good thing. Google Maps needs a real competitor - consumers ultimately benefit from the increased competition.

There's one theme I can't get over. It's how quickly and exponentially Apple is pulling ahead of Microsoft. 5 years ago, Apple's complete dominance over Microsoft was unthinkable. 

Microsoft has fallen so far behind, they literally don't matter.

Windows Phone doesn't matter.
Bing doesn't matter.
Bing Maps definitely doesn't matter.
Internet Explorer doesn't matter.
Word doesn't even matter.

Every empire eventually falls. Microsoft's a rich company still turning in record quarters. Financial results suggest Microsoft's consumer business has largely been overtaken by their enterprise business. Great right? Absolutely, if it wasn't for 3 trends: cloud computing, mobile and consumerization.