Linked by Thomas Hormby on Mon 2nd Oct 2006 19:11 UTC
Over its thirty year history, Apple has survived and even thrived despite boneheaded business decisions. From pricing the Macintosh out of most consumers' reach to creating some really ugly computers, Apple has made a lot of bad decisions.
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2006-03-10
The indistry will do just fine without Apple. They are not unique, they don't drive technology, they don't really do anything other than marketing and design. The real people who make the computer industry work are Intel, AMD, Ati, Nvidia et al...
I didn't say that apple drives anything.
apple is the kind of agent that sits on the sidelines merrily doing it's own thing...forcing everybody else to keep one eye on them, thereby keeping the industry in 'check'.
To say that apple does nothing other than marketing and design (some will say those two are the hardest parts of business, btw), is ignorant.
OSX, as one example, is a great take on how to build a marvelous operating system *experience*.
And that's what apple does best...create experiences. And that's one of the hardest things to do.
Take your blinders off...don't hate the apple.