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What do you think about the direction Apple’s now taking itself in since Jobs died?
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It’s looking like the Apple Magic died along with Steve. Maybe it’s too soon to tell, though. Creative destruction in technology tends to come in waves and the markets that Apple came to dominate with its amazing devices were ripe for the picking at the time. That’s not really the case now. And then, there’s that old adage, “Those that can, innovate. Those that can’t, litigate.” Apple is at the leading edge of litigation right now.
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Check out this article — and especially the comments on it. A lot of the commenters seem to be feeling (as I do) disenchanted with Apple these days.
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I’m very over Apple. Don’t like the iCloud or the way they micromanage what I’m doing on my Apple computer. I love my new Mac Air, but the next time around, think I will do something different.
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It looks like Apple post-Jobs is headed back to the Sculley era. Incremental improvement of existing products, but nothing really new.
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I’m kind of miffed at Apple too. But I think a lot of the trends we’re all unhappy with began under Jobs.
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I think computing and the web, etc, are reaching the point of completion. Most machines are already far faster than we need, bandwidth seems to be on an automatic path to ever increasing rates, screens are great, touchscreens are about what they ever will be IMO…if you compare it to aviation we went from the Wright Brothers to Boeing 707 in 50 years…we’re at the 707 stage I think. Things will improve of course but the basic stuff is in place.
So I guess I don’t see that much for Apple to do at this point. But then I’m not Steve Jobs.
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I don’t see any difference, Apple have allways done incremental improvement of existing products under Jobs, if anything, they have picked up the pace a bit and are now making easily the best products they ever produced. What is interesting is that they now seem to have the beginnigs of a coherent cloud strategy.
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