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Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole?
SlappingOysters (1344355) writes "Grab It is reporting that Apple will stream its 2014 WWDC keynote live at 10am PST on June 2. The site speculates that a recent update to showcase title and previous keynote star Real Racing 3 could confirm a rumoured microconsole announcement. The App Store has seen a dramatic rise in the quality and frequency of AAA spin-off titles over the last year, giving Apple a good platform to make a move into this emerging space."
The point is that "doing something revolutionary" was Apple's Business Model and how they were able to maintain their high prices and also their "followship".
What Jobs managed like no second was waiting for the right moment and then shipping the technology with a near perfect UI. He did not ship products "when they were possible" but when they were "possible to make elegant".
He was not the first on the market of computers (Mac), MP3 players or Smartphones or webshops. But he waited long enough until he could ship something really thought through (at premium prices). When the "rabble" of the market cought up to his premium segment, he moved on. From Desktops to MP3 players to phones to tablets. All points into the direction that TV was going to be the next segment Jobs would have moved.
Samsung and google can afford to do "just business", as they are in the market of "just business". Apple was in the market of opening premium segments for the non technical masses with money and moving on when he could not sell anymore in the high price segmet as the rest of the market cought on.
Apple can survive as "one of them", I think. But that is not the model Jobs had and that they still seem to go for. Not having something revolutionary in the works is going to be the end of Apple as we have known it in the last years.