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Apple was doomed as a computer company. They survived only when their visionary founder came back to turn the company into a consumer electronics company. Witho
by djloche 14y ago
Apple was doomed as a computer company. They survived only when their visionary founder came back to turn the company into a consumer electronics company. Without the successes of the iPod and iPhone product lines, they'd be dead in the water right now.
- crusso 14y agoI would agree that they wouldn't have had the level of success they now enjoy if they had remained only a computer company - but way before the iPod was introduced in late 2001, don't forget that Jobs had already turned the product line around with the hugely successful candy colored iMac, the transition to OSX, and a return to quality and vision within the traditional computer market. With Jobs at the helm, I think that Apple would have been going places selling rice cookers. To write Apple off as "doomed" in that market seems naive.