the Chairman of the company that has utterly failed at something criticizes the company that is making money hand over fist for not understanding what customers want?
In 2004-2005 iPod was Apple's flagship piece of consumer electronics. It was making shitloads of cash, was transforming multiple industries, and was THE portable music player.
At just about any other company in the world the VP of the iPod division would have considered this internally-rumored iPhone thing a threat, and he would have used his clout as the guy in charge of The Company's Most Important Thing to have the project aborted, and everyone would have supported him because no company in its right mind develops future products that by necessity must destroy the company's present flagship products. You BURY those things. Something something Kodak, something something Microsoft, etc.
Because one of the defining characteristics of Apple since 1997 has been its willingness to kill successful revenue-generating products now in order to secure strategic advantage with something better tomorrow. Every tech company in the world would have sold its soul to have a product as amazing as iPod, and Apple effectively killed it when iPod was selling more than ever before and making more money than ever before. The thing is, what Apple replaced it with was iPhone.
I read an article that holds up Ender's Game as either a) a good book, or b) something that kids should be encouraged to read, I know that the article was written by someone who doesn't know much about books.
windows did not steal from Apple - Apple and Microsoft both stole from Xerox and implemented them poorly...
IIRC:
Xerox licensed all GUI concepts to Apple for commercialization in a perfectly normal licensing deal in exchange for Apple stock.
Microsoft took Apple's variations on those concepts and created Windows, Apple sued because there was no licensing deal in place, Microsoft found a loophole in a code-sharing development contract that meant Apple had given Microsoft a license to the GUI code by accident.
Android has a clear lead over iOS in market share, but no-one cares. Because those Android users use their phones as, well, phones. And they don't spend money.
iOS has almost 100% of the market that matters: smartphone owners who use their smartphones as smartphones and are happy to spend money.
Yeah, just got to get the board and shareholders to agree to fire Ballmer. The plan is foolproof so long as, you know, Steve Ballmer's not on the board and not a massive shareholder.
Apple doesn't care that sales of Macbooks are dropping for the same reason that it didn't care when sales of iPods started dropping. It's because people are moving to a newer Apple product.
Richards didn't confront the people who allegedly offended her. She did nothing in person to convey that she found the comments made inappropriate. What she did was and use her influence to damage the commenters' social status. Basically, this is how females fight. Guys are fucking useless at this shit and don't understand it.
Lynch is a CTO who took a desktop-based software company with incredible institutional inertia and reoriented it towards cloud services in record time.
Here's a quote I read somewhere else: "Google is getting better at design faster than Apple is getting better at services." Apple has sucked at services from day one, iDisk, MobileMe, iCloud, whatever, it's all shit. It needs someone to sort that out - maybe Lynch is the guy they picked.
oh yeah, apple's real innovative. After all, they release almost the same outdated hardware in a slightly different shape, increment the major version, then have droves of their L Ron Hubbard cult rejects rush out to buy it at exorbitant cost.
If you're worrying about affording it, you are not part of Apple's target market.
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The something is "selling tablet computers".
the Chairman of the company that has utterly failed at something criticizes the company that is making money hand over fist for not understanding what customers want?
In 2004-2005 iPod was Apple's flagship piece of consumer electronics. It was making shitloads of cash, was transforming multiple industries, and was THE portable music player.
At just about any other company in the world the VP of the iPod division would have considered this internally-rumored iPhone thing a threat, and he would have used his clout as the guy in charge of The Company's Most Important Thing to have the project aborted, and everyone would have supported him because no company in its right mind develops future products that by necessity must destroy the company's present flagship products. You BURY those things. Something something Kodak, something something Microsoft, etc.
Because one of the defining characteristics of Apple since 1997 has been its willingness to kill successful revenue-generating products now in order to secure strategic advantage with something better tomorrow. Every tech company in the world would have sold its soul to have a product as amazing as iPod, and Apple effectively killed it when iPod was selling more than ever before and making more money than ever before. The thing is, what Apple replaced it with was iPhone.
For the complete opposite, see "Microsoft"
The one who squeezes the watermelon-sized thing out through the lemon-sized opening gets more leave than the one who doesn't.
I read an article that holds up Ender's Game as either a) a good book, or b) something that kids should be encouraged to read, I know that the article was written by someone who doesn't know much about books.
The New York Post is reporting that the boat is of Saudi origin.
The Terms don't say "no ads". They say "no third-party ads allowed in this Developer Preview". The loopholes don't need to be pointed out, do they?
windows did not steal from Apple - Apple and Microsoft both stole from Xerox and implemented them poorly...
IIRC:
Xerox licensed all GUI concepts to Apple for commercialization in a perfectly normal licensing deal in exchange for Apple stock.
Microsoft took Apple's variations on those concepts and created Windows, Apple sued because there was no licensing deal in place, Microsoft found a loophole in a code-sharing development contract that meant Apple had given Microsoft a license to the GUI code by accident.
Android has a clear lead over iOS in market share, but no-one cares. Because those Android users use their phones as, well, phones. And they don't spend money.
iOS has almost 100% of the market that matters: smartphone owners who use their smartphones as smartphones and are happy to spend money.
Yeah, that'll be a real disaster, what with Apple being so short of cash and all.
What are you talking about? Apple didn't even have anything to do with this comic getting pulled. Apple wasn't involved at all.
Yeah, just got to get the board and shareholders to agree to fire Ballmer. The plan is foolproof so long as, you know, Steve Ballmer's not on the board and not a massive shareholder.
Apple doesn't care that sales of Macbooks are dropping for the same reason that it didn't care when sales of iPods started dropping. It's because people are moving to a newer Apple product.
We live in an age where big corporations can legislate morality
You think the word "legislate" means something other than what it actually does.
This article can be summed up in one sentence: "LOL WINDOWS USERS"
Explained
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_aggression
Relational aggression:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_aggression
Richards didn't confront the people who allegedly offended her. She did nothing in person to convey that she found the comments made inappropriate. What she did was and use her influence to damage the commenters' social status. Basically, this is how females fight. Guys are fucking useless at this shit and don't understand it.
because no-one's done that yet
Lynch is a CTO who took a desktop-based software company with incredible institutional inertia and reoriented it towards cloud services in record time.
Here's a quote I read somewhere else: "Google is getting better at design faster than Apple is getting better at services." Apple has sucked at services from day one, iDisk, MobileMe, iCloud, whatever, it's all shit. It needs someone to sort that out - maybe Lynch is the guy they picked.
oh yeah, apple's real innovative. After all, they release almost the same outdated hardware in a slightly different shape, increment the major version, then have droves of their L Ron Hubbard cult rejects rush out to buy it at exorbitant cost.
If you're worrying about affording it, you are not part of Apple's target market.
Seen the profits Apple is making from phones? Apple won the game a long time ago.
Samsung should make a commercial out of this.
With the amount that Samsung spends on advertising, it will sooner or later.
I don't think so.
Mod parent up. This is just a Google circle jerk.