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Apple changes its mind frequently. "Nobody wants video on an ipod" a year later, ipod with video. "Nobody reads Books anymore", cue the ibook store years later
by acomjean 13y ago
Apple changes its mind frequently. "Nobody wants video on an ipod" a year later, ipod with video. "Nobody reads Books anymore", cue the ibook store years later. You don't need two buttons on a mouse, powerPC processor are the best, firewire! Scsi!
Apple seems to reserve the right to change their minds and then not say anything about it. They ignore commenting on the past ofter (the Halo Demo at macworld for example..)
Apple always project they know what they're doing, but looking at it hindsight they change their mind frequently as business conditions change
- masklinn 13y agoFor a number of these, I'm not even sure they changed their minds in the first place. Instead I'd see a bunch of these as an over-extension of the internal culture of secrecy and siloing. You can't keep a secret if you have to punt, so they lied their asses off instead, Most likely the video iPod was already well in development or a known possible development track internally, and Jobs publicly acknowledged at WWDC 2005 that Apple had been running x86 builds of pretty much every OSX version and maintaining NeXTSTEP's portability all along.
- aparticulate 13y ago>powerPC processor are the best, firewire! Scs all canned and replaced features
- tedunangst 13y agoApple always project they know what they're doing, but looking at it hindsight they change their mind frequently as business conditions change That's one way to phrase it. Why not say Apple knows what they are doing because they adapt to changing business conditions?