Why Has Apple Spawned So Few Startups?
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Why Has Apple Spawned So Few Startups?
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#2Curious
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#3Summing up: Apple's good pay, benefits and soaring stock.
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#4Few compared to what? Microsoft? Google? Facebook?
Oh, the article doesn't quantify what it means by "few." It just throws that idea out there for no reason and then pretends it's a thing.
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#5Few compared to what? Microsoft? Google? Facebook? Oh, the article doesn't quantify what it means by "few." It just throws that idea out there for no reason and then pretends it's a thing.
"Although firm figures are hard to come by, Ganesan estimates Apple's tally of startups is about 50 percent smaller than companies such as Google, Yahoo and PayPal. (Coincidentally, smart thermostat maker Nest, the most prominent startup hatched by Apple alums, was acquired by Google last year.) "
They did. Wheather that data is accurate is another matter.
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#6Article doesn't seem to give any evidence of this. Apple's been around forever and former Apple (and NeXT, if you stick to the logic it's some sort of Jobsian startup-suppression field) employees have been involved in zillions of startups over the years. EA, Danger/Android, Nest, Flipboard come to mind.
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#7A non-techies idea of innovative might not match startup ideas of innovation. Or rephrased apple-scale innovation might not scale down to startup-scale innovation.
Total amount of innovation (for the sake of argument, big) divided by number of employees (staggering) equals not innovative on average and even the outliers will also suffer.
Its a mindcrime to say it in public, but if some successful companies are innovative, and apple is successful, that doesn't logically follow that Apple is innovative. Rolex has a good reputation, makes nice watches that are very expensive; however they don't sell many cesium atomic clocks which are technologically far more innovative than a mechanical or quartz movement. A timekeeping startup could sell a GPSDO that sells for less than 50 cents, that would be impressive and innovative but not very Rolex-like. Perhaps Apple is the same.
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#8Few compared to what? Microsoft? Google? Facebook? Oh, the article doesn't quantify what it means by "few." It just throws that idea out there for no reason and then pretends it's a thing.
"Although firm figures are hard to come by, Ganesan estimates Apple's tally of startups is about 50 percent smaller than companies such as Google, Yahoo and PayPal. (Coincidentally, smart thermostat maker Nest, the most prominent startup hatched by Apple alums, was acquired by Google last year.) " They did. Wheather that data is accurate is another matter.
I would argue Pixar is a far more well known example outside of SV.
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#9Like others, I'm not sure that Apple has spawned few startups. The evidence here is weak.
Apple's innovations have been primarily about hardware design. I would think there are many fewer hardware startups than software startups due to the amount of capital required to build hardware. It might be more apropos to compare the number of startups from other hardware companies (Intel, Nvidia, TI, HP, Sun).
Re: Why Has Apple Spawned So Few Startups?
#10Because no one ever leaves!