If He's So Smart...Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation (Fast Company). The battle over digital music is just another verse in Apple's sad song: This astonishingly imaginative company keeps getting muscled out of markets it creates. So what does Apple have to tell us about innovation? [KeepMedia | Featured News]
This article is so bad, you can only laugh. A few choice quotes with my comments in italics):
The article starts by saying: Everyone knows Parisians are snobs.Actually, what everyone knows is that white american males think that.
Conventional wisdom has long answered that Apple is the victim of a single, huge strategic error: the decision in the 1970s not to license its operating system. That's pretty weird conventional wisdom since nobody was licensing software in the 1970s.
Today, more than a quarter-century after its founding, it commands just 2% of the $180 billion worldwide market for PCs.Which add up to 3.6 billion... but somehow seems small just because... your brain is the size of a peanut? If all the companies that sell less than 3.6 billion a year have to dissaper... How many would left? How many markets? Even in the PC world only five companies make more (or close) to what Apple makes and only one of those is consistently more profitable.
For its fiscal year ending September 27, 2003, Apple reported just $6.2 billion in revenues, three-quarters of it from the sale of personal computers. Again, putting a "just" in front of a huge number doesn;t make it small. 6.2 billion in revenues should be enough to justify a company, actually, is a huge company!
The father of the PC--and, remember, the industry's number-one vendor in 1980--has since sunk to a lowly ninth, behind competitors Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, just for starters. Sadly, Apple is also behind such no-namers as Acer (seventh) and Legend (eighth).Didn't you get the memo? IBM got out of the business. As for Apple being 9th world wide... Who cares? It is still beating Gateway and Sony... Aren't you worry about those?
And it isn't just the hardware manufacturers that are devouring Apple. Its chief competitor in software, Microsoft, earned $2.6 billion in its most recent fiscal quarter (ending September 30). That's nearly 15 times the $177 million in software sold by Apple in its most recent fiscal quarter...But Microsoft is a software maker whether Apple makes hardware, so this number is so irrelevant as to put in doubt not only your sanity but your honesty.
One example of a popular product not easily available for the Mac is the personal video recorder, or PVR. That's the TiVo-like device that lets users pause, rewind, and record live television programs on their PCs. Only two developers offer a PVR for the Mac: Elgato Systems' EyeTV and Formac's Studio TVR, retailing at $199 and $299 respectively. At least six software or consumer electronics vendors produce Windows-compatible PVRs, and Microsoft itself gives away PVR capability as a standard feature on Windows XP Media Center.But in every review El Gato EYETV is deem the best of the pack. Who cares if you don't have many when you have the best?
That's why recent releases of competing portable music players take on great significance. Selling for as little as $299, the Dell DJ is about $100 cheaper than the iPod with the same 5,000 song capacity. (A $500 iPod holds 10,000 songs). A third product, a 20-GB unit made by Samsung to work with Napster 2.0, costs $100 less than the 20-GB iPod, or about $300, and boasts a lot more features, including a built-in FM transmitter--to play songs on a car radio--and a voice recorder.But these have been around for a couple of years and none of them has 2% of the market. why not apply the same logic to them? Ah! because they are destined to win...
The iPod works only with the iTunes service, and has a $0.99 fee-per-song pricing structure. Dell/Musicmatch and Napster offer consumers more choice.If choice means forcing people into using Windows. None of these stores work on any other operating system.
Well, sure. But two years since the launch of Apple Stores, it's still unclear whether the strategy has moved the needle at all.So, is Apple lying? What is the explanation? For me it's clear, Apple is winning the consumer market, but the business market grows too fast and since nobody wants to separate them (and risk making everything clear) we have this paradox.
That crap like this gets publish convinces me that most people are morons...
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