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I'd bet the same.
Wow, I wouldn't. We are on the cusp of a major paradigm shift. Some of the smartest people in the world are tackling small edges of an impressive graph of capabilities. As more and more of these edges are solved, general purpose computing inches ever closer to our grasp. If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on 10 years or less.
>> I’m worried for Apple…If the landscape shifts to prioritize those big-data AI services, Apple will find itself in a similar position as BlackBerry did almost a decade ago: Maybe Apple is betting that AI won't be achieved in the next 15-20 years.
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Derek Lowe also has the tremendous "Things I Won't Work With", which is laugh-out-loud funny.
It hasn't updated in nearly two years. Wonder when people will stop recommending it.
I've come to a conclusion that Cook's reign at Apple will probably mirror Ballmer's reign at Microsoft. Both are biz guys who inherited companies from technology visionaries with massive revenue streams and yet they both lacked vision and tech expertise to create successful new products. Ballmer tried it numerous times and Cook has tried it with Watch, Music and so on. Neither of them have succeeded. Apple's now beco…
I have some of the same concerns you do, but remember that the common complaint about Apple is that they "Don't come up with anything original, they just copy everybody else." Their MO is that they bake other people's half-baked product ideas, and then make a killing on them while naysayers sit around scratching their heads trying to figure out why everybody else is acting crazy. Whether Cook and Ive can do that I th…
A good example - the iPod and iPhone were both "Me, too" products. Apple just engineered, designed, produced, and delivered exponentially better versions of products everyone else was trying to build at the time.
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>undersold the fact that Tim Cook is doing basically the same job at Apple that he did during most of 2004-2011 when a number of hit products were developed and launched. Oh, no question Tim Cook is doing the same job: operations, supply chain. And being good at that is nothing to sneeze at. But it doesn't look like that job was "visionary," R&D, or product development. The question is: who's doing that at Apple now?
Jonny Ive?
He's still listed on Apple's exec page but I have no idea what he does anymore.
Summary Founders set the company culture, success ingrains that culture deep into a company's subconscious where it runs in the background regardless of whatever cultural reforms/artifacts are introduced - culture can only be changed when a new CEO (Jobs, Nadella) steps in and announces a huge change in culture, which usually stems from an otherwise unimaginable partnership (such as Apple/MSFT) that shows a concessio…
Summary Founders set the company culture, success ingrains that culture deep into a company's subconscious where it runs in the background regardless of whatever cultural reforms/artifacts are introduced - culture can only be changed when a new CEO (Jobs, Nadella) steps in and announces a huge change in culture, which usually stems from an otherwise unimaginable partnership (such as Apple/MSFT) that shows a concessio…
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Have you used apple music? If you'd like to see how you shouldn't design your UX, then try it out. It's by far the worst design I have ever used.
I use it and I love it. I often find myself following down new and interesting rabbit holes discovering and rediscovering music. Could it be better? Probably. It is clear that it is geared towards the top 40 listener on one end and the explorer willing to click around to discover things on the other, but not much in the middle.
A greater observation about apple. From the outside it interesting to see it transition from a company that did computers differently to more of a luxury good brand. A bit sad really. Apple used to lead with expert implementation of innovation. Now its just meh.
Microsoft is really leading the pack with its outreach to the tech world of tomorrow with so much of its stack opensourced. Apple just seems to be making the black box even more inaccesible
Companies are typically founded by highly passionate and creative people, who care a lot about what they do and are both able and willing to steer their startup in the right direction.
Once they grow, they start hiring new employees, many of those will inevitably be the kind of people who only want to do their job and go home. Over time, the management too gets filled by people who apply mainly because it's a high status and well paid position, and are not at all that interested in what the company does.
Eventually, all the remaining creative people and even the founders themselves get bored with the routine and leave to do something else and the company becomes hollowed out. The remaining people may be highly skilled and competent in their respective positions, but they are generally unaware of the big picture and the reasons behind how things are done.
As the result, the company slowly turns from succesful to dysfunctional as its ossified culture gets out of touch with the ever evolving reality, as there aren't any people left in the company who are able to notice practices that are no longer functional and care enough to change them.
That's an interesting thought, but I'm afraid that the actual reason is far more trivial. Companies are typically founded by highly passionate and creative people, who care a lot about what they do and are both able and willing to steer their startup in the right direction. Once they grow, they start hiring new employees, many of those will inevitably be the kind of people who only want to do their job and go home. O…