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Apple today is starting to remind me a bit of the Apple of the early 1990s. Gone are the simple product portfolios where each model has a clear position and pu
by Reason077 4y ago
Apple today is starting to remind me a bit of the Apple of the early 1990s.
Gone are the simple product portfolios where each model has a clear position and purpose within the line up. Now, the number of models is creeping up gradually with more and more overlap and less clarity of purpose between them.
- Dracophoenix 4y agoIf Apple is repeating the 90s, maybe it will finally bring back Mac clones and Pink/Taligent/Copland.
- ksec 4y agoThe whole iOS is becoming more Android Like with every version. Tim Cook's Apple may be very successful, but I will argue it is not a better Apple. And as the Steve Jobs in Private of the Silicon Valley, being better matters.
- KerrAvon 4y agoThe difference is that Apple today has the volume to support the (smaller amount of, let’s be clear) differentiation. And while it’s less clear than it was in, say, 2001, each of these things probably has an audience.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoA victim (again) of its success? Perhaps. Jobs famously pared the Macs down to laptop/desktop and pro/consumer to create a grid of four platforms (of course this predates phones, watches, ipads...). I suspect Jobs was over-correcting because he had to, because Apple was floundering. But the model matrix for the Macs are not a lot bigger than Job's 2 x 2 minimalist stable.
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