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It doesn't make sense to split Apple into hardware and software since the integration and simplicity that comes from it is the very thing that makes Apple uniqu
by quonn 4y ago
It doesn't make sense to split Apple into hardware and software since the integration and simplicity that comes from it is the very thing that makes Apple unique.
- nindalf 4y agoYou asked for ideas. You never specified that they should be workable or logical.
- listenallyall 4y agoApple licensed it's MacOS back in the mid-90s to third-party hardware manufacturers. If it was forced to by the government, I imagine it could do so again.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoIt wasn’t forced to by the government. The CEO at the time thought it was a good idea.
- listenallyall 4y agoYes, we know. Please read my comment, it doesn't claim or imply Apple was under any government pressure back then.
- bioemerl 4y agoUnfortunately this is also the source of all their monopolistic behavior. Apple hardware should be incentivized to make great hardware for any operating system. Apple software should be incentivized to sell to many manufacturers and also to not obey apple hardware's demands for locks to prevent things like the replacement of batteries. Their union could be a great thing, but apple decided to use it to be a bunch of monopolists, so your break them up like all the others.
- crop_rotation 4y agoGreat hardware for any OS sounds good in theory but not gonna happen in practice. When 10 hardware providers are supplying hardware for an OS, the hardware becomes a commodity, and the focus tends to go to cheapest for a given spec. You can see the same phenomenon in Windows and android hardware. If you supply a premium hardware for a premium price in a commodity market, you will just not have any market share. People buy apple hardware for the integrated experience. e.g. I am not gonna buy a Dell running macOS or a Mac running Windows11.
- bioemerl 4y agoThere are lots of windows laptops with quality hardware. There are cheap ones too, but that's the whole point of choice.
- crop_rotation 4y agoThere are but they do not compare to a mac. The point of choice for me is to be able to buy an integrated experience.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoThen why don’t people buy those over apple products? If you change Apple into that, I would be sad because now you’ve taken away a choice I had before.
- rejectfinite 4y ago>Then why don’t people buy those over apple products? But they do lil bro/sis Lenovo Thinkpad, Dell Presicion/Latitude or HP Elitebook for companies aint cheap. Gaming laptops. Android phones, the top ones. etc
- kkarakk 4y agotbf none of those have maintained quality for as long as apple have. since iphone 1 apple has maintained a superlative quality of phone - nothing on android side comes anywhere close for the same amount of time. i prefer just being able to say "buy an iphone/macbook" whenever i think what has quality rather than having to research options for 3 hours on what's the current state of the art in tech.
- pulse7 4y agoThis is nothing new. IBM was required to sell software separate from their hardware...
- maxwell 4y agoThey use that line of argument specifically to avoid antitrust scrutiny.
- wraptile 4y agoThat's exactly the issue, isn't it?