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RIP Apple. Your products are no longer interesting...Sad to see such a great company fall to pieces. Apple's only strength was the desirability factor. And thi
by neya 14y ago
RIP Apple. Your products are no longer interesting...Sad to see such a great company fall to pieces.
Apple's only strength was the desirability factor. And this desirability factor arose from the fact that they had really few product lines that were easy to remember - There was only ONE good iPhone and ONE iPad at any given point in time, so, people would easily remember those.
Right now, what's the newest/best iPad out there?
Is it the iPad 3? The iPad Mini?? The iPad 4?? (I was aware of the 4th version only a few days back).
And what's the newest/best iPhone? The iPhone 4S? The iPhone 5?? The iPhone 5S??
When Steve was alive, the most recent product line from Apple would automatically mean that it was the best. However, that isn't the case anymore. Now, they just increment technical aspects (screen resolution, storage size..etc) of their products to fake desirability.
This was the only difference between Apple's strategy and other companies like Sony/Samsung/HTC's strategy. Heck, even HTC is getting better, they are having fewer phones that make it easier to remember (The two latest and best phones from HTC are the Butterfly J and the One X+)
If Apple is going to follow its competitors, destroying its only edge over the others (ie, desirability), I fail to see how they can sustain this way. In other words, they are digging their own grave.
Just FYI - If you are wondering if I'm a fanboy, no I'm not. I lost all respect for them the day they sued Samsung.
- tjogin 14y agoNo wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
- ohwp 14y agoPosted this before: Apple is dead as in: http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
- jcromartie 14y agoIt's not like they are promoting this on their front page. It's just a spec bump.
- dbecker 14y agoCurrently owning both a macbook and a dell laptop, I assure you that there are differences besides the number of lines they carry. The same holds true if you look at tablets or phones instead of computers. The difference you describe isn't the "only" difference, and it's not even one of the more important differences.
- vvhn 14y agoah, the wonder years when Steve was alive and the last apple product line was better than the previous one aka the iPod shuffle better than the iPod nano - the MacBook Air which he pulled out of a manila envelope better than the MacBook ( or Pro) , where there was just one MacBook or one iPod and when the iPhone 3GS was not sold alongside the iPhone 4. Cut to present - nobody knows that the iPhone 5 is the best iPhone - and everybody knows that having an iPad mini alongside an iPad has cut it's desirability to zero. All becuase Steve is no longer at Apple and it will soon follow him to the grave becuase of doing exactly what he did when he was alive.