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Greed happened. Apple is run by someone who thinks that if something doesn't make a billion dollar it is not worth doing. At the moment where Apple had the most
by seec 3y ago
Greed happened. Apple is run by someone who thinks that if something doesn't make a billion dollar it is not worth doing.
At the moment where Apple had the most money to finance many things that don't make that much money or new experimental stuff they just stopped spending any money. All in the name of the shareholders.
And peoples mostly talk about the annoying front-end stuff that has been removed or neglected but if you look at all the small things that you could find on a Mac it's really sad.
This is exactly why I now say that Apple is not worth it nowadays. The hardware is nice sure, but there is plenty of nice hardware provided you are willing to pay the price. The software is becoming terrible quicker than ever and it already is a poor copy of what it was before (the way they "remade" the iWork suite is almost criminal).
- TimTheTinker 3y ago> Greed happened. I don't see any evidence that Apple's product managers are directly influenced by quarterly returns and AAPL share price fluctuations. If we were talking about Apple's financial behavior (such as their stock buyback program, or the killing of an entire product line), then perhaps. But I strongly doubt Apple's product managers were motivated by what you call "greed" when they made the choices that led to today's iWork suite. Perhaps it was something more like building the product that most of their customers wanted. Maybe market research told them they'd have better success letting Microsoft build the productivity suite for people at work, and instead build a product that people would use at home (even/especially people who don't use Office or any productivity suite at work). These are both credible possibilities that don't involve "greed". I'm very curious to know what really happened.