LOL! I am in marketing. I’ve used Macs since the eighties. Say what you will about Jobs, as I said, he can be a control freak and a jerk. But, he does have a guiding philosophy, has always followed it, and it’s plainly visible in the products from Apple under his tenure. This one is no exception.
Say what you want, but Apple's been more successful than every other large computer and electronics company over the last few years.
Check out these quotes:
Apple and Walmart have been playing stock market tag over the past few weeks to see which company's market capitalization would be higher. At the time of this writing, Apple's market capitalization of $213.98 billion exceeds Walmart's market cap of $211.14 billion -- a difference of $2.84 billion. Currently, Microsoft and Exxon are the only US companies whose market caps exceed Apple's, with Microsoft at $255.75 billion and Exxon at $319.21 billion....and...
Some firms are predicting that Apple will eventually catch up to or surpass Microsoft's market cap. While there's currently a $41.77 billion dollar difference between the two companies' market caps, that's not a completely insurmountable gap. Get a load of this batch of perspective: ten years ago, Microsoft was worth in excess of $586 billion, while Apple was worth a relatively paltry $17 billion. In the same amount of time it took for Microsoft to lose almost $330 billion in worth, Apple's market cap rose by nearly $200 billion. No wonder Fortune named Steve Jobs "CEO of the Decade."Excerpted from here.
“LOL! I am in marketing. I’ve used Macs since the eighties. Say what you will about Jobs, as I said, he can be a control freak and a jerk. But, he does have a guiding philosophy, has always followed it, and it’s plainly visible in the products from Apple under his tenure. This one is no exception.”
OS X and iPod. What else? The design of the Mac, sure. But it has gone through 3 major revisions since Jobs returned. Was that marketing or R&D?