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Are you really implying that Apple's end-to-end ownership of their product has little to do with their success?

• huggyface 14y ago
  Are you really implying that Apple's end-to-end ownership of their product has little to do with their success? What a funny, looking-for-an-argument response. You know what, though- I'll humour you. Do you understand what a cargo-cult is? Are you really implying (groan) that end-to-end ownership is the precusor to success? With this transition, Microsoft is guaranteed super success, right? But let's go back to Apple for a moment: If you want to attribute their recent success to it, you must also attribute their prior failure to it as well, as they went through well over a decade with dismal products and brutal sales. During the same time that Microsoft, who didn't have end-to-end ownership, was the darling of the tech industry with unheralded success. I don't know why this sort of sophistry that is so common on here rubs me so raw. I think it's that so many are so desperate to try to simplify the world into clear differentiators, with a seeming blindness to the exceptions and the history behind their ridiculous claims.