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"1. Admit it. You're out of the hardware game. Outsource your hardware production, or scrap it entirely, to compete more directly with Microsoft without the lia
by mootothemax 12y ago
"1. Admit it. You're out of the hardware game. Outsource your hardware production, or scrap it entirely, to compete more directly with Microsoft without the liability of manufacturing boxes."
Good thing they didn't 'admit it'.
Isn't this essentially what they've done with Foxconn and the other China-based producers they work with?
- steven2012 12y agoNo. What they meant is to be a software-only company, ie. compete with MSFT without the liability of hardware.
- jiggy2011 12y agoBut plenty of the other suggestions are about building hardware.
- Eric_WVGG 12y agoThey're competing ideas from different industry-folk. There's a ton of contradiction in the article, and that was kind of the point.
- mootothemax 12y agoNo. What they meant is to be a software-only company, ie. compete with MSFT without the liability of hardware Disagree. Apple had half-tried and experimented doing this with the "official" clones programme, e.g. Power computing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone#Official_Macintosh_clone_program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone#Official_Macint... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Computing
- mwfunk 12y agoRight, they half-tried it. This item is telling them to go all in on it.