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But it didn't take months to turn the Apple of those days into the Apple of today.
by johnchristopher 11y ago
But it didn't take months to turn the Apple of those days into the Apple of today.
- ssharp 11y agoI'd say by the third iteration of both OSX and the iPod that it was clear Apple had turned itself around. There were obviously still a lot of gains to be made, but by 2004 the company was strong and there was a clear foundation laid. Apple started to skyrocket shortly after. Granted, this was a longer time frame, between 1997 and 2003/4, but there were consistent signs along the way that improvements were happening and Jobs' decisions on where to make cuts and where to focus were correct. I think it's hard to say the same thing for Yahoo.
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoTrue - but how is the Yahoo of today different from the Yahoo of 2012? Yahoo has always been a bulging cupboard full of random services, and that hasn't changed. One of the things Jobs brought back to Apple was strategy - not just a strategy for specific products, but a focus on creating certain kinds of customer experiences and expectations. Mayer hasn't done anything similar at Yahoo. She's been a tactical manager, not a strategic CEO. She keeps trying to do strategy with things like Project Index, but most of her acquisitions and ideas seem to have been impulse buys - arguably on the premise that the typical Yahoo user is someone a lot like herself.