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To the contrary, what it tells me is that Apple has lost confidence in its own ability to win on good ideas and good execution and is now being run by investors
by marshray 14y ago
To the contrary, what it tells me is that Apple has lost confidence in its own ability to win on good ideas and good execution and is now being run by investors looking for quarterly returns and lawyers thinking this is actually a constructive way to "leverage the money they spend on R&D".
- flatline3 14y agoOr, they're trying to prevent Windows 95 all over again.
- smokeyj 14y agoPreventing Windows 95 would have been great for consumers, because competition is bad.
- flatline3 14y agoActually, it would have been good because competition is good, and Microsoft proceeded to sew up the market as a monopoly for decades, using a slew of underhanded tricks to do so, and grossly undermining the position of the primary innovator who held a far better product. It wasn't until Windows 2K that MS even began to catch up to Apple's work, and then Apple leapfrogged with the NeXT purchase.
- smokeyj 14y ago> using a slew of underhanded tricks You wouldn't be referring to IP shenanigans would you?
- flatline3 14y agoNo, I don't mean IP shenanigans: http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepape... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft