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Or Google Large companies struggle to launch anything due to their staff size. They're as inefficient as a government
by jokethrowaway 9mo ago
Or Google
Large companies struggle to launch anything due to their staff size.
They're as inefficient as a government
- GeorgeOldfield 9mo agohow is apple, overall, so good at this?
- scotty79 9mo agoIs it though?
- ranger_danger 9mo agoTheir revenue last year was 400 billion dollars... you tell us.
- scotty79 9mo agoThey are still milking the product they launched 20 years ago, doing slight periodic updates to match innovations of others with few years delay. They are about as good at making new products as Google and Facebook.
- ranger_danger 9mo agoI'd say it depends on your definition of "good", since the revenue seems to suggest they're doing something most people agree with.
- bloppe 9mo agoBy that logic, the online scam industry is shipping the best products of all time. By some estimates they make over a trillion a year.
- ranger_danger 9mo agoIMO false equivalence... scams are designed purely to steal money from people, while Apple products carry intrinsic value and benefit to most people.
- bloppe 9mo agoI realize it's a strained equivalence, but Apple makes a lot of money violating EU anticompetitive laws. Their stranglehold over app distribution is not entirely dissimilar to ransome.
- GeorgeOldfield 9mo agohave you seen the M chips? to me that revolutionized computing. supercomputer-level latency for in-ram operations on a $2k laptop
- scotty79 9mo agoSounds awesome. But they achieved it by basically harwiring specific RAM to specific CPU. It's awesome that they made a product, but there's no extensibility and since it's internal apple innovation it's basically a technological dead end. Nobody can build anything upon this and there's nothing to build. Even a cool $2k laptop you can run small LLM on is basically a closed off expensive toy. Much like iPhone. Technology will grow in parallel and surpass it fairly quickly like the Android phones did. Only brand loyalty in US holds this thing still propped up long term.
- tensility 9mo agoThe fruit company still has an internal culture, especially in hardware-focused teams, with a relentless focus on shipping products followed by iterative refinement.
- compsciphd 9mo agogoogle makes products, they mostly suck at making platforms, and their most notable platform (android) was purchased, though one can argue gsuite/workspace as a platform, but one might also argue that its more just an amalgamation of projects. One can see this from the failure of google+ (and killing off beloved apps, like reader on its altar, when I would argue if they are thinking platform, the idea is to make any app insert data into the platform, you don't want to push away users, you want to get them using the platform with them even knowing it). Or their disjointed messaging strategy for many years (which might not even matter, they seemingly have given up on it?). It shouldn't matter what messaging app someone uses, let it use a common platform. Spend the money on figuring out how to make them use a common platform, because killing their app just pushes them away and you are not guaranteed that they will move to your new app vs something else. Moving their old app to your new platform, again, keeps them as users, increases the value of the platform (as more users are inserting dfata into it) which makes it more valuable to others to do the same. One might have different apps geared towards differ things (someone might be happy with just text messaging, another might want video and text messaging, but if you kill the first guy's app and expect him to move, he might just as quickly move to whatsapp or something else).