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But its hardware production, not design... So, it was accurate.
I think what Apple does is a bit different to outsourcing hardware production. They actually finance the initial investment in the manufacturing facilities in order to secure exclusive and long term contracts. It seems to be a cost effective in that they get the benefits of owning the hardware production while the technology is still new.
Kinda weird how much of this is the opposite of what worked.
1 (outsourced to Foxconn and others), 3 (App store), 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30
No: 2, 4, 22, 24, 27
5: Far from universal, but they do name some products after features iPhone3 g. 9: Fixed problem. 17: arguable
PS: Granted, some of this was over the next 20 years.
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This is pretty uncharitable to Jobs. If you look at Apple's trajectory over the last 15 years, you can see the vision was consistently outlined from the very beginning—the Digital Hub strategy ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9046oXrm7f8 ). You can draw a straight line through iPod -> iTunes Store -> iPhone -> App Store -> iPad -> Apple Watch. Even though the vision was a little blurry with regards to how powerful m…
> If you look at Apple's trajectory over the last 15 years, you can see the vision was consistently outlined from the very beginning—the Digital Hub strategy ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9046oXrm7f8 ). That's not really the case though. As Jobs outlined it in that video, the Digital Hub strategy was to sell Macintoshes by positioning them as something you could dock your consumer-electronics gadgets, mostly from…
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Not only did it enable Boot Camp, it also enabled third party Windows VMs like Parallels and Virtual box, and third party Windows API reimplementations (namely Wine)
We already had 3rd party emulators running VMs on PowerPC (and they were slow as molasses), what Intel allowed was 3rd party VMs to run FAST!
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But its hardware production, not design... So, it was accurate.
I think what Apple does is a bit different to outsourcing hardware production. They actually finance the initial investment in the manufacturing facilities in order to secure exclusive and long term contracts. It seems to be a cost effective in that they get the benefits of owning the hardware production while the technology is still new.
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I particularly love the ones that are both right and wrong: 72. Try the industry-standard serial port plug. RS-422 should be a last resort. (They replaced RS-422 not with RS-232, but USB) 14. Do something creative with the design of the box and separate yourselves from the pack. [...] We'd all feel better about shelling out the bucks for a Power Mac 9600 if we could get a tower with leopard spots. (Obviously Wired sh…
Was it the Intel switch that enabled bootcamp though? That's clearly a better solution than maintaining a windows emulator, but does it meet the same point?
Kinda like Wall-E's charge-cycle-complete boot sound and EVE's iPod-inspired design.
Here, here! If it's a measly 55-channel toy, I'm sending it back.
If you'd bought $10,000 of AAPL stock when this article was published (June 1997), it would be worth about $523,000 today, excluding dividends.
If I told you to buy $10,000 of Blackberry stock today, would you do it? Buying AAPL in 1997 is as crazy as buying Blackberry today. The difference is Steve Jobs, but some people thought he was nuts too back in 1997.
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If I told you to buy $10,000 of Blackberry stock today, would you do it? Buying AAPL in 1997 is as crazy as buying Blackberry today. The difference is Steve Jobs, but some people thought he was nuts too back in 1997.
Didn't Steve jobs sell 1.5 million shares in 1997? It caused a 12 year low in the company's stock price.. http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Steve-Jobs-Confirms-A...