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Both tremendous companies. I actually wish Apple would deploy some of its know-how and capabilities a little more broadly. Not everything has to be an immediate
by pbreit 11y ago
Both tremendous companies. I actually wish Apple would deploy some of its know-how and capabilities a little more broadly. Not everything has to be an immediate $20 billion opportunity.
- draw_down 11y agoOn the other hand, that product stance helps them avoid Google Reader-type situations.
- lern_too_spel 11y agoRight, it gets them into more iTunes Ping situations.
- draw_down 11y agoThey certainly have failures, that's one of them. But nobody was sad when it got killed, you know? Nobody misses iTunes Ping or iAds or MobileMe.
- sangnoir 11y ago> But nobody was sad when it got killed, you know Oh my, isn't that damning with faint praise? It's an indictment against Apple: Ping was so bad no one missed it.
- oldmanjay 11y agoWell, it's an indictment against Ping anyway. It would be mighty disingenuous to somehow suggest that level of failure is a statement of the possibility of future success for them considering how big their hits are.
- sangnoir 11y agoIt's only disingenuous if you're stripping away the context of the thread, further upstream, ancestor comment said: >>>On the other hand, that product stance helps [Apple] avoid Google Reader-type situations. and GP replied: >>Right, it gets them into more iTunes Ping situations. followed by: >But nobody was sad when it got killed, you know? Nobody misses iTunes Ping or iAds or MobileMe Which is damning Apple with faint praise. >It would be mighty disingenuous to somehow suggest that level of failure is a statement of the possibility of future success for them considering how big their hits are That's a non-sequitur. No where in my comment did I extrapolate or attept to divine Apple's future failure/success.
- pbreit 11y agoFirst, Google abandoning Reader was a terrible decision. Easily worth a PM and a few devs. Second, I understand that part of the reason Apple executes well is because it minimizes distractions. But I believe a well-executing company like Apple should be able to take on more projects effectively.
- yoz-y 11y agoI, for one, am glad that Reader got shut down. Although I was a heavy Reader user, I think that the RSS ecosystem is better without it. Now we have a relatively healthy number of aggregating services and third party clients. For me, RSS is the way informational web should work.
- mortenjorck 11y agoJudging by some of Apple's patents that filter through the USPTO, there are clearly broader applications of those capabilities being studied deep within R&D. Yet the institutional memory of the disastrous, nearly-bankrupting sprawl of the 1990s is certainly at the heart of Apple's resistance to commercialize a lot of the wilder things its researchers and designers come up with.
- petra 11y agoRe" being focused - There are organizational structures to counter that , and it isn't that they lack the money to invest.