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> "It is not easy to evaluate a company I love as if they have failed." Clearly. I realize Apple headlines get clicks but this blog post is hilariously myopic

by qwrusz 10y ago

> "It is not easy to evaluate a company I love as if they have failed." Clearly. I realize Apple headlines get clicks but this blog post is hilariously myopic or sarcastic trolling or both. I'm still not sure what the author even means by "failed". Apple is a business, not iKumbaya computer camp. Any realistic discussion of how Apple could "fail" as a company would not give that much attention to the Apple Watch and Apple TV. As symptomatic of problems as those products might be, if Apple is going to massively fail then iPhone/iOS is really all that matters. It dominates the company internally and externally. Companies have ups and downs...People come and go. Of all companies, anyone aware of Apple's history should get this. Also if Apple fails who will replace its market share? Microsoft? Apple could in theory buy Microsoft tomorrow if it wanted to (doubt gov would let them). I'm as annoyed as others about Apple product decisions recently (the latest phone and laptop released 1 month apart don't have compatible ports, ffs Timmy). Sorry to say but a company can fail for you as their customer and no longer make and sell stuff that fit your needs, and that doesn't mean the company has failed. They are on a bad run lately but give it a minute. But if Apple does decide to break up with its prosumer segment of customers, its not you, it's them. It'll be OK.

stcredzero 10y ago
Also if Apple fails who will replace its market share? Microsoft? What if it's failure to keep the lead in innovation? Maybe being on the ropes and being declared dead or irrelevant is what it takes to motivate innovation? There was a time when Steve Jobs was told he should sell off Apple's assets and shut the doors. Right after that is when one becomes desperate enough to do something really new.
- qwrusz 10y ago
  Does Apple have a lead in innovation to even keep? You may be right, being on the ropes and declared dead can be a catalyst to motivate innovation. But that's not much help here. Apple is nowhere near the ropes or being declared dead; not in any practical, rational sense of the words. Maybe Apple has plenty of innovation happening they don't release or it's comfortable it can hit the On-switch when it wants to? Unlike Apple's need to make a comeback back in 1997 there is less incentive to release major "really new" stuff today in as quick a cycle as they used to. It can actually hurt them long-term if that pace continued. "How fast do you need to be to outrun a bear chasing you?...Just faster than the guy next to you."

by qwrusz 10y ago

stcredzero 10y ago

Also if Apple fails who will replace its market share? Microsoft? What if it's failure to keep the lead in innovation? Maybe being on the ropes and being declared dead or irrelevant is what it takes to motivate innovation? There was a time when Steve Jobs was told he should sell off Apple's assets and shut the doors. Right after that is when one becomes desperate enough to do something really new.

qwrusz 10y ago
Does Apple have a lead in innovation to even keep? You may be right, being on the ropes and declared dead can be a catalyst to motivate innovation. But that's not much help here. Apple is nowhere near the ropes or being declared dead; not in any practical, rational sense of the words. Maybe Apple has plenty of innovation happening they don't release or it's comfortable it can hit the On-switch when it wants to? Unlike Apple's need to make a comeback back in 1997 there is less incentive to release major "really new" stuff today in as quick a cycle as they used to. It can actually hurt them long-term if that pace continued. "How fast do you need to be to outrun a bear chasing you?...Just faster than the guy next to you."