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Guys been dead one year and all we hear from people like you is that innovation is dead at Apple because they haven't launched any new $50 billion products in t
by Steko 14y ago
Guys been dead one year and all we hear from people like you is that innovation is dead at Apple because they haven't launched any new $50 billion products in the last 4 quarters. Steve produced a handful of what you're calling "new value propositions" in over a dozen years and most definitely had his hands all over everything Apple has launched from his death to today.
Your claim that Apple probably has no new products in the pipeline is one the most laughable things I've ever read on HN. Apple is not Microsoft or Google, they don't demo a thousand shitty products five years early and hope some of them catch fire.
Your claim that Apple's current product lines are all doomed is also silly and disproved by inspection of their desktop and laptop business. Apple is an innovation machine and everyone else is trying to hit a moving target.
Yes it was drivel and hogwash.
- btilly 14y agoYou say people like you as if I was in bad company. Read point 5 of http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html to see someone who is generally respected in these parts on the exact same topic. Don't forget, we've seen this play before. Apple on top of the world, Steve Jobs removed from the picture, a guy at the top with a history of execution but not innovation. (OK, the current CEO's history is in a more relevant field than Sculley's background at Pepsi...) The result was very much not pretty. They are going nowhere for a while. They are clearly ahead of the market, and they have a core constituency of fans. But I'm willing to bet money that in 10 years the luster is off, and in 20 they will be just another technology company to most of the world.