Steve Jobs always chose to maximize unit profit margin vs gaining market share.
He was very wise and a true, free market capitalist.
The model is to sell top of the line to folks with money falling out of their pockets.
Nothing wrong with the product or the business model, I would rather work for a rich guy than a poor guy, but there is very little room at the top.
sorry to hear that
But...Jobs was a liberal as big as the day is long.
/bingo
Steve Jobs certainly did an excellent job for the company APPLE and dramatically increased its fortunes. AND ... that’s what business is all about ... as “proof” and a “reward” for meeting the expectations of consumers — a “pile of cash”!
Nope.
Jobs at every chance worked to make the Apple a closed system, both of hardware and software. The original Macintosh was designed to be totally closed, with no ability by the owner to modify or change it. The market forced Jobs to change that somewhat, but at every step his impetus has always been "closed and proprietary". In the Apple universe, Wozniak was the "wise and true" open systems guy.
The other "wise and true free market capitalist" of the early computer founders was Bill Gates. It wasn't Jobs hardware and software that drove the personal computer industry to the depth and breadth it exhibits today......it was Microsoft and Intel ("Wintel"). And in fact, "Wintel" drove the technology so far and so fast that Apple ended up using the same hardware in their systems rather than the Motorola technology they started out with.
If Jobs was any sort of capitalist at all, it was of the "John D. Rockefeller" school....make and keep a monopoly.
Was Jobs brilliant....yes. Was he a technology visionary....yes. But a "free market capitalist".....no.
So his ultra liberal widow is poised to rightfully blow most of the 10 billion she inherited on toxic liberal sludge a la the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
I am filing this one under: "All is vanity"
Amen brother.
It always pisses me off that people treat the private sector bureaucracy that is the American corporate culture as if they are the Paladins of Capitalism.