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>I think the issue is that Intel has a culture and focus. It is cpus. It is a large company and this is where the revenue comes from and it has momentum. With

>I think the issue is that Intel has a culture and focus. It is cpus. It is a large company and this is where the revenue comes from and it has momentum. With this logic, Apple should have also stayed with making Macs when it had financial troubles in in 1999, since that's its focus, not venture into making stupid stuff like Mp3 players and phones, everyone knows that's the core focus of Sony and Nokia who will rules those markets forever.

bhouston 2y ago
Apple under Steve Jobs is exceptional and not the rule. Trying to use that the fact Einstein or Muhammad Ali or any other genius in his area could do something or did something is not a counterpoint.
AnimalMuppet 2y ago
Yes, Apple succeeded. But the number of companies that attempt such branching out and succeed are few compared to how many try. The CEO of company X may think that he's as talented as Steve Jobs, but is he really?
- astrange 2y ago
  One way you can look at it is that Apple succeeded at those by taking things that weren't their product (radios, flashlights, calculators, etc) and turning them into their product (computers).
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kergonath 2y ago
> With this logic, Apple should have also stayed with making Macs when it had financial troubles in in 1999, since that's its focus, not venture into making stupid stuff like Mp3 players and phones, everyone knows that's the core focus of Sony and Nokia who will rules those markets forever. You’re off by a few years. Jobs axed any project not related to the Mac when he came back in 1997, so they actually did what you say they did not. The iPod project started around 1999-2000 when Apple was in a massive growth phase after the iMac and the G3 and then G4 desktops. Also, in the alternate reality where the iPod did not massively succeed, it would very likely have been killed or remain as a hobby like the Apple TV. Apple might not be as huge as they are now, but the Mac was doing great at the time.

bhouston 2y ago

Apple under Steve Jobs is exceptional and not the rule. Trying to use that the fact Einstein or Muhammad Ali or any other genius in his area could do something or did something is not a counterpoint.

AnimalMuppet 2y ago

Yes, Apple succeeded. But the number of companies that attempt such branching out and succeed are few compared to how many try. The CEO of company X may think that he's as talented as Steve Jobs, but is he really?

astrange 2y ago
One way you can look at it is that Apple succeeded at those by taking things that weren't their product (radios, flashlights, calculators, etc) and turning them into their product (computers).

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kergonath 2y ago

> With this logic, Apple should have also stayed with making Macs when it had financial troubles in in 1999, since that's its focus, not venture into making stupid stuff like Mp3 players and phones, everyone knows that's the core focus of Sony and Nokia who will rules those markets forever. You’re off by a few years. Jobs axed any project not related to the Mac when he came back in 1997, so they actually did what you say they did not. The iPod project started around 1999-2000 when Apple was in a massive growth phase after the iMac and the G3 and then G4 desktops. Also, in the alternate reality where the iPod did not massively succeed, it would very likely have been killed or remain as a hobby like the Apple TV. Apple might not be as huge as they are now, but the Mac was doing great at the time.