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Contrast with Apple's significantly less experimental, more refined approach to product releases. Apple's approach has been a disaster recently with the glorif
by pphysch 3y ago
Contrast with Apple's significantly less experimental, more refined approach to product releases.
Apple's approach has been a disaster recently with the glorified (and polished) beta test kit "Vision Pro" and the cancelled Apple Car.
If Apple has embraced the Vision Pro as an experimental product, they probably could have released it with an order of magnitude or two less expenditure. But Apple does not experiment in the marketplace, they release solid polished products that have been in a sense validated by their competitors (Blackberry etc).
When it comes to innovation, an experimental approach like Google's is key. If you don't have that culture, you will get left behind. Apple is in a precarious position: the iPhone is over 15 years old, becoming "my parent's phone". They're not a player in AI and the car project failed. How will they capture the next generation?
- naasking 3y ago> Contrast with Apple's significantly less experimental, more refined approach to product releases. Apple's recent updates to iTunes broke basic functionality like playlists. I'm not sure "refined" is the right description, perhaps "more conservative but just as broken".
- pphysch 3y agoEveryone makes mistakes but I think you would agree that Apple is known for product excellence overall. Then people project that approach onto other co's like Google, that have a more experimental bent, and get upset when experiments have undesirable results (of course Google deserves some blame here for how they frame things).
- naasking 3y agoThey're known for it because of inertia from Steve Jobs' leadership. They've declined noticeably since then IMO.