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Saying they're not going to do a feature, and then doing it, isn’t the same thing as saying we don’t think anyone needs our old product anymore (and then changi
by robenkleene 7y ago
Saying they're not going to do a feature, and then doing it, isn’t the same thing as saying we don’t think anyone needs our old product anymore (and then changing their mind on that?) All those other quotes are obvious jibes at competitors. What did Apple have to gain from doing marketing to move people off of their own older products to newer ones? And why would they try to do that if that product line was so important to them?
- scarface74 7y agoWell seeing that during the time period from the time you claimed that Apple was trying to “move people” from Macs to iPads, Mac sales increased while the rest of the PC industry saw declines, their marketing department must have really sucked. When Apple wants to move people to a new platform, they’ve done it enough times Apple // -> 68K Mac -> PPC Mac -> OS X -> x86 Mac that they have a playbook and it has never taken them almost a decade.
- robenkleene 7y agoI think we've made our cases, thanks for sticking along for the ride. For the record I think your points are good counterarguments, we just interpret the available evidence differently. But frankly I sure don't know for sure, it's just my best guess. Really hope someone writes a book about what was going on inside Apple over the last decade, because I sure can't make any sense of it.