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Apple

pjmlp 4y ago
The company rescued from insolvency with Microsoft money and reversed buy from NeXT, and only managed to get out of red thanks to the iPod and what came later, regardless of the office structure.
- KyeRussell 4y ago
  How is anyone meant to respond to that? Can’t you apply this thinking to any company?
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    Office structure doesn't affect what products people are willing to pay for.
    - MaanuAir 4y ago
      That one made me think. Conway’s law may result in products’ appeal, thus what people are willing to pay for.
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    - cameldrv 4y ago
      Maybe the products produced by developers that can concentrate better are more valuable and people are willing to pay more for them. Seems like Apple provides 2.4 trillion reasons.
      - pjmlp 4y ago
        I am sure the office isn't part of the interview casting processes, trying to be hired at Apple is hardly any different from most game studios, regarding what one is willing to put up with to have the name on the CV.
- Mike_12345 4y ago
  It didn't make them worse. Highest market cap on the planet.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    It didn't rescued them from insolvency, so who cares.
    - Mike_12345 4y ago
      That was 26 years ago and it is irrelevant.
    - midoridensha 4y ago
      I wonder how the world would be different if Microsoft had just let them die. Would it be better or worse? Would we all have slate-style smartphones now, or would they have taken much longer to arise?
      - sofixa 4y ago
        The iPhone wasn't the first touchscreen smartphone, it was just the flashiest (previous ones were oriented at business users), so IMO we certainly would be in the same place, just slightly later and possibly with more choice (maybe Nokia would have survived with Symbian/MeeGo, maybe Microsoft would have managed to pull off Windows Phone, etc.).
        midoridensha 4y ago
        Unless there were some phones I never saw, the iPhone was the first slate-style phone that you used with your fingers. Before that, everything had buttons (like the Blackberry, which kept keyboards until they finally died), or had crappy resistive touchscreens that you needed a stylus to use. The iPhone was the first one I remember that had a glass screen with capacitive touchscreen, needed no stylus, and didn't try to copy the Windows UI on a tiny screen.
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saagarjha 4y ago
Hello? Apple Park?

Apple

The company rescued from insolvency with Microsoft money and reversed buy from NeXT, and only managed to get out of red thanks to the iPod and what came later, regardless of the office structure.

KyeRussell 4y ago
How is anyone meant to respond to that? Can’t you apply this thinking to any company?
- pjmlp 4y ago
  Office structure doesn't affect what products people are willing to pay for.
  - MaanuAir 4y ago
    That one made me think. Conway’s law may result in products’ appeal, thus what people are willing to pay for.
  - deleted 4y ago
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  - cameldrv 4y ago
    Maybe the products produced by developers that can concentrate better are more valuable and people are willing to pay more for them. Seems like Apple provides 2.4 trillion reasons.
    - pjmlp 4y ago
      I am sure the office isn't part of the interview casting processes, trying to be hired at Apple is hardly any different from most game studios, regarding what one is willing to put up with to have the name on the CV.
Mike_12345 4y ago
It didn't make them worse. Highest market cap on the planet.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  It didn't rescued them from insolvency, so who cares.
  - Mike_12345 4y ago
    That was 26 years ago and it is irrelevant.
  - midoridensha 4y ago
    I wonder how the world would be different if Microsoft had just let them die. Would it be better or worse? Would we all have slate-style smartphones now, or would they have taken much longer to arise?
    - sofixa 4y ago
      The iPhone wasn't the first touchscreen smartphone, it was just the flashiest (previous ones were oriented at business users), so IMO we certainly would be in the same place, just slightly later and possibly with more choice (maybe Nokia would have survived with Symbian/MeeGo, maybe Microsoft would have managed to pull off Windows Phone, etc.).
      - midoridensha 4y ago
        Unless there were some phones I never saw, the iPhone was the first slate-style phone that you used with your fingers. Before that, everything had buttons (like the Blackberry, which kept keyboards until they finally died), or had crappy resistive touchscreens that you needed a stylus to use. The iPhone was the first one I remember that had a glass screen with capacitive touchscreen, needed no stylus, and didn't try to copy the Windows UI on a tiny screen.
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saagarjha 4y ago

Hello? Apple Park?