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The trouble is that as a tech company - first you want to build a moat around your success and barriers to competitors usurping your hard-won position/user-base
by seven4 6y ago
The trouble is that as a tech company - first you want to build a moat around your success and barriers to competitors usurping your hard-won position/user-base.
IF you do this very well you become a "tech giant" - then you want to continue building that moat/pulling away from your competitors BUT now you have to look like you aren't anti-competitive.
So i guess it's useful to think about: what does Apple want to do vs what does apple want to look like its doing? Wherever the internal/external impetus of an organisation are at odds - progress will be painful/prolonged. Then again if you ran Apple would you be quick about ceding the moat?
- Mindwipe 6y ago> Then again if you ran Apple would you be quick about ceding the moat? I'd hope I'd be smart enough to see how completely corrosive it's been to Apple. It's made their software development process fat and lazy, and propped up bad products that should have been dropped or fixed. Apple's software reputation was invincible ten years ago, and now it's shipping Mac apps that can't even full screen video properly. I think, in the long run, that will cost the company far more than it gains from it's behaviour.