You have young upstarts headed your way. But fostering competition can be good. What kind of advice would you give to a company like Teoma or Wisenut in order to keep up? What do you think gives you the edge, technologically, over these guys? What do you think they do well that Google does not?
I'm not sure I agree with your analysis. But it is an easy mistake to make.
Over the past few years, I think Jobs has started to change the path of apple. Apple has traditionally been about building the easiest to use computers. That's what made the iMac so successful. That's what their marketing campaign was all about-- remember the ad? "Step one: Plug in. Step Two: Get Connected. Step Three: There is no step three!"
But I think Jobs is moving away from the ease-of-use world, and into the world of high performance home computing. Apple's image is changing with these machines that look and feel, and well, are expensive. Why? Apple's given up on trying to be #1. They won't be.
For the same reason that BMW will never be the #1 auto manufacturer in the US. BMW builds and caters towards a different market. BMW builds expensive, high performance driving machines. Apple is shifting towards building sleek, innovative computing machines. Apple wants to be the BMW of computers.
I bet if you compared the market share of BMW to that of Ford, GM and Chrysler, you'd get a similar trend. But BMW does not want to be #1. BMW has stuck to its niche, and is making a lot of money doing it. Apple is doing the same.
Actually, not to be nitpicky, but the plural of attourney general is attourneys general. Much like the plural of court marshall is courts marshall, rather than court marshalls.
(It makes sense. There's no army of generals, and John Ashcroft probably isn't General caliber. Rather, he is the 'general' attourney for the United States. We he and his friends from the states hang out, they are all attourneys, and all general. Thusly, they are attourneys general.)
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Uhhh... WRONG. WRONG WRONG
I know I've tried to send several LEGIT mails off my linux server hosted on comcast's network and have bounced every time.
Fuckers.
You have young upstarts headed your way. But fostering competition can be good. What kind of advice would you give to a company like Teoma or Wisenut in order to keep up? What do you think gives you the edge, technologically, over these guys? What do you think they do well that Google does not?
Jon,
I'm not sure I agree with your analysis. But it is an easy mistake to make.
Over the past few years, I think Jobs has started to change the path of apple. Apple has traditionally been about building the easiest to use computers. That's what made the iMac so successful. That's what their marketing campaign was all about-- remember the ad? "Step one: Plug in. Step Two: Get Connected. Step Three: There is no step three!"
But I think Jobs is moving away from the ease-of-use world, and into the world of high performance home computing. Apple's image is changing with these machines that look and feel, and well, are expensive. Why? Apple's given up on trying to be #1. They won't be.
For the same reason that BMW will never be the #1 auto manufacturer in the US. BMW builds and caters towards a different market. BMW builds expensive, high performance driving machines. Apple is shifting towards building sleek, innovative computing machines. Apple wants to be the BMW of computers.
I bet if you compared the market share of BMW to that of Ford, GM and Chrysler, you'd get a similar trend. But BMW does not want to be #1. BMW has stuck to its niche, and is making a lot of money doing it. Apple is doing the same.
Actually, not to be nitpicky, but the plural of attourney general is attourneys general. Much like the plural of court marshall is courts marshall, rather than court marshalls.
(It makes sense. There's no army of generals, and John Ashcroft probably isn't General caliber. Rather, he is the 'general' attourney for the United States. We he and his friends from the states hang out, they are all attourneys, and all general. Thusly, they are attourneys general.)
They have. Searched for psh on google and this was the first link.
http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/psh/
Imagine that.