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Woz On Apple's Success
Frankenbuffer writes "The Globe and Mail today has a short interview with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple. Steve muses on spinning off iPod as a separate division. He also questions the move to Intel." From the article: "Microsoft wants to get out of the whole image of the big, black Darth Vader evil guy ... Innovation is probably going on within the company, because any time you put smart engineers in places eventually they wind up talking and innovating no matter how much you try to hold them back. I hope Microsoft improves and becomes more like Apple."
MS innovates on 2nd or 3rd generation technologies. It doesn't generate new technologies or advance the art by risking a 1st generation bet.
Apple innovates on technology gaps filling the need for 1st generation solutions to problems defined as weak bridges to the consumer. There is no culture at MS for forging those technological innovations that bridge the divide between markets.
Apple sees itself as a marketer, merchant and abstracts those bridges into interfaces that enable Apple to own the layer above the technology charging a gateway fee onto the marketplace floor.
MS is not motivated to serve the needs of anybody but their own self-interest in maintaining the Windows dominance on the desktop. Apple has no such arbitrary restriction on service to the customer. Apple will meet the customer where needed most.