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The difference is that Apple is a single company, so secrecy doesn't interfere with product development. Communication happens between the involved internal tea
by kitsunesoba 6y ago
The difference is that Apple is a single company, so secrecy doesn't interfere with product development. Communication happens between the involved internal teams and the magic happens.
In the case of collaborations between separate companies, secrecy becomes a problem because inevitably, details that are held close and not communicated turn into stumbling blocks. For a collaboration between Nvidia and Microsoft for instance, the teams at Microsoft involved with the project would need the same level of access to Nvidia's half as Nvidia's employees do in order to be as effective as Apple's internal teams have been. This isn't impossible of course, but historically Nvidia is not inclined to do things like this.
- ngcc_hk 6y agoFirm is NOT market. In fact fir property right economics why firm exist is a big study area. Why such contractual transaction is efficient compared with free market. (May be it is not as open source “economy” has organised transaction that is not possible with firms. And firms does cooperate.) The question further is this model extended to say china. Many things happened in china was closed to outside. Not much as a secret but more like a big firm operate cheaply in a world economy. Would others compete or like apple others have to follow inline to get the supply. One wonder.