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The Apple paradox -- how a fanatically secretive company fosters open innovation
- diN0bot 17y agoi understand apple is secretive to external parties. i couldn't quite figure out how secretive they are internally, and how that effects innovation for employees.
- dgreensp 17y agoThe author bungles the significance of the iPhone app platform, which is an obvious example of device lock-down and control, not any kind of departure in the direction of openness. And obviously Apple planned their Tablet in their usual secretive, top-down method of hardware design. There are different issues here, for example company culture as far as internal and external transparency, which is very low at Apple and very high at (say) Google. Then there's Jobs's intense control of product design, which I'm sure is only to the good. Then there's being controlling of users of developers through DRM and the app store (as the only distribution channel for iPhone apps) -- I'm not sure where they're going with that (hardware support for DRM? more closed development platforms?) and I'm not sure I like it.
- gcb 17y agoanswer is simple. it doesn't.
- GHFigs 17y agoI couldn't read your article due to the enormous banner floating over it telling me that my opinion matters.
- rythie 17y agoHis points about Android seem random at the end. What does he think Google should have based the OS on? Windows, where Microsoft won't let you change the interface? OSX which isn't available for non-Apple hardware? Symbian which has tons of problems? Palm OS (you'd have to buy them first)? Write an OS from scratch (which would take years + billions of dollars). Android is based on Linux because it's the only sensible choice, the fact that Richard Stallman has some funny netbook this week has nothing to do with it.
- lurkinggrue 17y agoAt least the trains run on time with Apple in charge.