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Well frankly I agree, but then again I am not a big Apple fan.
Apple is outsourcing virtually their entire production.
At some point, America will want to start producing things once again. I believe that time is approaching rapidly.
Apple will have all their production in China.
Not good.
But then again, I am not an Apple fan, so take that for what it is worth.
The new CO is a dunce, but they’ll get rid of him.
I’m an Apple fan, but unfortunately, I agree. Samsung is starting to really pull ahead in tablets and phones, despite Android’s flaws. Apple almost seems tentative, now.
As I’ve said before, a committee made up of individuals each of whom is three-quarters of a Steve Jobs will not be able to synthesize a whole Steve Jobs, no matter how hard they try, no matter how beautiful is the meeting room, or the building in which the meeting room is located.
Committees can handle a scale-up of the process by which the fruits of innovation are delivered to a mass population. Committees are not visionary.
Steve Jobs demonstrated a consistent talent for seeing what was next, for turning that vision into a buildable design, for manufacturing that design at an affordable price, and for packaging the result in a form that literally everyone would want.
Committees cannot reach outside the box. In order to reach outside the box, you have to be willing to fail - as Jobs clearly was - and, after failing, try again.
Committees tend to hang failure on an individual, and then eject that individual.
Sometimes partnerships are able to reach outside the box, but there have to be very strong bonds of family or friendship between the partners. Bonds of trust so strong that failure will be dealt with without fear of ostracism. This is rare, although there are some famous examples of it (the Wright brothers, for example).
So? Nothing to replace it and what they do have works spectacularly well.
Quite frankly, unlike when the writing was on the wall for Microsoft, you could see Apple in the rear view mirror. There is nothing coming up behind Apple.
It would be exceptional if they didn’t begin to fade. Getting to the top is a combination of hard work and some good luck.
Staying on top is hard work and drawing to an inside flush, again and again. It is amazing what Apple has has been able to accomplish.
Owned two Apple IIs, bought a Mac three days after they were released, ran an entire business in the 80’s on Macs. Apple got behind on a new version of the Mac operating system that would have BURIED the PC (system 10) and brought back Jobs to ‘save’ the company.
Jobs returned, cancelled system 10, and proceeded to develop throw away plastic consumer junk. Me and Apple parted ways then.
As far as I’m concerned, it was Jobs return that killed the remarkable and truly innovative Apple.
Quite the stretch of a prediction, when you look at what happened to Apple between Jobs’ tenures.
I think one day history books will record the downfall of Apple as a legal catastrophe. Apple decided to patten rectangles, multi-touch screens and hired more lawyers than engineers. They became defensive rather than innovative and sought to protect market share rather creating the best most innovative products to gain market share. They would not play well with the non-apple world. I-tunes became regulator of all media and limited the sources to protect Apples media royalties. In mobile devices Apple refused to support flash, removable storage and file systems to protect their Apple user monopoly. They won their lawsuit against Samsung and in doing so lost a partner and gained a competitive giant. Apple became a law firm and has now become a political advocacy zealot, profits are not that important to the company any more, neither are customers at least if they are conservative. If the iphone 6 does not dazzle they clear the way for more android dominance and the return of windows in the mobile device market.
Apple was always in the business of selling steve jobs as their cool factor. The replacements think they are in the computer device business.
Apple won’t be the first computer company to go down this road after the death of a founder.
DEC didn’t survive after KO left.
Wang didn’t survive after Dr. Wang retired. He came back after being sick to try to re-start the company after his playboy son did a good job of running it into the ground, but it was too late.
Can I get this book on my Nook?