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Originally Posted by jocampo
Apple almost went to bankruptcy because prices AND poor leadership, AND lack of innovation.
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Definitely. So, we now have
luxury pricing for iPad mini Retina.
What about
innovation? If the hideous iOS 7 is any indication of where we're headed now, the outlook couldn't be bleaker: focus on
cosmetics (butt-ugly cosmetics, too) instead of
functionality.
Leadership? I was underwhelmed by yesterday's keynote. When Steve Jobs used bombastic adjectives like "revolutionary" and "magical", you could just barely
believe him, thanks to the famed "reality distortion field".
When his successors use the same adjectives on the stage, it sounds like marketing fluff. Or, as someone described it here yesterday, "snake oil salesmen's talk".
By the way, you couldn't give a more irrelevant analogy than Rolex watches.
A completely outdated device (a wrist-watch) that many people consciously excluded from their lives. I can't see that happening for mobile phones or tablets or computers anytime soon. Also, a wrist-watch is a
self-sufficient device; not so our computer devices. If Apple's user base shrinks significantly, 3rd-party software support for their devices may shrink as well, driving Apple to the same dead end they experienced in the 1990s. (Also think of Blackberry, Web OS.)