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Originally Posted by jswinden
So you only do business with companies that blindly stay on the track you think they should. I call those companies medieval because they never rock the boat, never innovate, never challenge the establishment to make changes for the good. Seems like you will miss out on those who truly innovate and push the envelope.
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I think what he probably means is that it is not good doing business with companies that do things differently where "doing things differently" is the sole reason to do so.
Even if other companies start doing things their way (doing them the way the "different" company is doing them, I mean), because they see some advantages in that approach, I'd expect that company to change their ways, just to *stay* different, at all costs.
In the IT-world at least, this often creates problems, especially if the company is important in some way or another. Often, I have the feeling that Apple is such a company.
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Originally Posted by holymadness
Apple sells hundreds of millions of devices that consistently achieve the highest customer satisfaction rankings in their respective categories...
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It's logical if you think about it. Apple stuff is like the "My way, or the highway". People who consistently buy Apple products *want* to work in the Apple way, and therefore, they are very satisfied.
As one of my colleagues once said:
"Why should I think? Apple does that for me."
And it's true: whatever Apple does, whatever Apple decides, it's all fine with him. If Apple decides that the OS in the new Air needs to be in Flash memory and there should be no hard drive because they now have iCloud, it's fine with him. If Apple decides that the only iMac should be one with a 28.47 inch screen and an aspect ratio of 18:8.31 and should be used in portrait mode only, then it'll be fine with him. Should Apple decide that the Dvorak keyboard is better than anything else, then he'll learn to type anew.
Apple knows what's best for him, and he will always be satisfied. If he could, I'm sure he'd buy an Apple TV (even if it was only 32", downgrading from his current 42"), an Apple watch, an Apple car, and an Apple washing machine without ever looking at anything else than the fact that they're made by Apple.
IMHO, that's not just being complacent, that's moronic.
The bad part is, I know quite a lot of people like that. Among Apple users I know, he is not an exception.