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And before Steve Jobs came back, Apple would buy third-party utilities to incorporate into MacOS (System 7.5 WindowShade, MenuClock, Hierarchical Apple Menu wer
by kalleboo 7y ago
And before Steve Jobs came back, Apple would buy third-party utilities to incorporate into MacOS (System 7.5 WindowShade, MenuClock, Hierarchical Apple Menu were all third-party acquisitions)
- otterley 7y agoApple still buys companies all the time. Perhaps not always well-known app developers, but certainly a lot of them. (Shazam is one from recent memory, as was Siri.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... Note that nearly all of these occurred after Steve Jobs’ return and continued apace after his death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... This makes me believe that if Apple is building their own rather than buying, perhaps there’s not a whole lot of innovation that the app developer created that wasn’t trivially replaceable.
- kalleboo 7y agoThey still acquire when they need the talent, but the utilities I listed were absolutely trivial (printing the time in the menu bar?) and Apple could have easily just replicated them
- threeseed 7y agoWhenever someone mentions how much better/different it was under Steve Jobs reign it's always a sign that the comment is 100% wrong. Especially since all of the Apple senior leadership team were still there making the same decisions as when Jobs was CEO.
- marcolussetti 7y agoI think the commenter is actually stating that Apple was better on this front in the era when Steve Jobs wasn't able kind. As in, the Gil Amelio and the like era.
- marcolussetti 7y agoCan't seem to be able to edit but "able kind" was meant as "around".
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