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There is a moral in this, but it's not what you might think.
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There is a moral in this, but it's not what you might think.
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02..._device_fails/ Very interesting. not really. it's just more linkbait. some of what's on that list were not failures (final cut x) or even problems (antennagate) at all. where's the list of failures from other companies? oh yea, there is none because only apple can do wrong. howe about a microsoft kin, a huge, huge failure, far bigger than anything apple ever did or will do. that product was doomed from the start. vista and particularly windows 8 are failures. google wave is another. the facebook phone is another. i bet you never even heard of it. |
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There is a moral in this, but it's not what you might think.
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:03:37 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02..._device_fails/ Very interesting. I was about to post more but I was interupted and poxstponed the effort. What I found so interesting about this was the way in which Apple has consistently aimed at being a high achiever and have got there inspite of the occasional failures which are the subject of this URL. I can think of other companies which have followed different policies and achieved differently: MSFT, IBM, Nokia, Kodak, - even Sony. There are many others. The moral can be summarised as, if you want to achieve high, you have to aim high and learn to survive the inevitable failures. And that includes pricing and profit margins. The path followed by Apple is almost unique. What prompted me along this line of thought is general puzzlement about what Nikon is up to. It has produced some industry leading technology - high density sensors, sensors sans anti-aliasing filters etc. Unlike Apple, while there is the new D4s at an eye-wateringly high price a lot of new cameras have come on to the market at a remarkably low price e.g. the D5300. It maybe that Apple has been able to take advantage of design/styling to hold their prices up, while in the main Nikon has not been able to. After all one camera tends to look much like another. Unless I get really close I often find I have to read the name on the front to tell a Nikon from a Canon. Maybe this is why Nikon has brought out the Df. Is it signs of an attempt to break out of a rut? Nikon does not seem to be able to emulate Apple so maybe Apple will remain unique in it's approach to becoming the market leader. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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There is a moral in this, but it's not what you might think.
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:30:55 -0500, nospam
wrote: In article , Eric Stevens wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02..._device_fails/ Very interesting. not really. it's just more linkbait. some of what's on that list were not failures (final cut x) or even problems (antennagate) at all. where's the list of failures from other companies? oh yea, there is none because only apple can do wrong. howe about a microsoft kin, a huge, huge failure, far bigger than anything apple ever did or will do. that product was doomed from the start. vista and particularly windows 8 are failures. google wave is another. the facebook phone is another. i bet you never even heard of it. You missed the point (as usual). This article is not about failures. It's not even about Apple. It's about Apple's failures and the reason's for them. I found the article extremely interesting and thought provoking. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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There is a moral in this, but it's not what you might think.
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02..._device_fails/ Very interesting. not really. it's just more linkbait. some of what's on that list were not failures (final cut x) or even problems (antennagate) at all. where's the list of failures from other companies? oh yea, there is none because only apple can do wrong. howe about a microsoft kin, a huge, huge failure, far bigger than anything apple ever did or will do. that product was doomed from the start. vista and particularly windows 8 are failures. google wave is another. the facebook phone is another. i bet you never even heard of it. You missed the point (as usual). This article is not about failures. It's not even about Apple. it's not about apple? then why do they only mention apple? what else is it about, if not apple? it's not about microsoft. It's about Apple's failures and the reason's for them. I found the article extremely interesting and thought provoking. too bad a lot of it wasn't actaully correct. it's link bait. it's that simple. final cut x was not in any way a failure. some users didn't like the changes, but they weren't the target market. apple sold more of final cut x than they did of final cut pro. that's not a failure. antennagate was a non-issue drummed up by competitors. signal strength dropping when you put your hand on or near the antenna is something that happens to every phone, and just about every phone says not to do that. that's just how rf works. some of the other failures go back many years to when apple was poorly run. they had a bunch of duds back then. the idiots who screwed up back then are pretty much all gone, so focusing on that is just silly. apple, like every company has duds. no surprise there. only the bashers expect perfection, and then whenever there is the slightest thing wrong, they jump. |
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There is a moral in this, but it's not what you might think.
On 3/6/2014 8:22 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , Eric Stevens wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02..._device_fails/ Very interesting. not really. it's just more linkbait. some of what's on that list were not failures (final cut x) or even problems (antennagate) at all. where's the list of failures from other companies? oh yea, there is none because only apple can do wrong. howe about a microsoft kin, a huge, huge failure, far bigger than anything apple ever did or will do. that product was doomed from the start. vista and particularly windows 8 are failures. google wave is another. the facebook phone is another. i bet you never even heard of it. You missed the point (as usual). This article is not about failures. It's not even about Apple. it's not about apple? then why do they only mention apple? what else is it about, if not apple? it's not about microsoft. It's about Apple's failures and the reason's for them. I found the article extremely interesting and thought provoking. too bad a lot of it wasn't actaully correct. it's link bait. it's that simple. And you bit hard final cut x was not in any way a failure. some users didn't like the changes, but they weren't the target market. apple sold more of final cut x than they did of final cut pro. that's not a failure. antennagate was a non-issue drummed up by competitors. signal strength dropping when you put your hand on or near the antenna is something that happens to every phone, and just about every phone says not to do that. that's just how rf works. some of the other failures go back many years to when apple was poorly run. they had a bunch of duds back then. the idiots who screwed up back then are pretty much all gone, so focusing on that is just silly. apple, like every company has duds. no surprise there. only the bashers expect perfection, and then whenever there is the slightest thing wrong, they jump. -- PeterN |
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There is a moral in this, but it's not what you might think.
In article , PeterN
wrote: It's about Apple's failures and the reason's for them. I found the article extremely interesting and thought provoking. too bad a lot of it wasn't actaully correct. it's link bait. it's that simple. And you bit hard nope. i'm not the one who posted the link. |
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There is a moral in this, but it's not what you might think.
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:21:43 -0500, nospam
wrote: In article , PeterN wrote: It's about Apple's failures and the reason's for them. I found the article extremely interesting and thought provoking. too bad a lot of it wasn't actaully correct. it's link bait. it's that simple. And you bit hard nope. i'm not the one who posted the link. What have you been smoking? As far as I know, the only link that has been posted in this thread is the one that *I* posted to start the thread. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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There is a moral in this, but it's not what you might think.
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: It's about Apple's failures and the reason's for them. I found the article extremely interesting and thought provoking. too bad a lot of it wasn't actaully correct. it's link bait. it's that simple. And you bit hard nope. i'm not the one who posted the link. What have you been smoking? i don't smoke. As far as I know, the only link that has been posted in this thread is the one that *I* posted to start the thread. yes, and it's link bait. i'm not the one who provided it. *you* did. you fell for it. |
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There is a moral in this, but it's not what you might think.
Interesting, in that while I've read innumerable "Apple's Greatest Failures" articles, I've never seen one malign the popular Apple IIc. While not a portable computer in the traditional sense, it WAS "transportable", and a fair number of people used it that way - keeping a monitor at home and one at the office, and easily moving the computer back and forth. The IIc was enormously popular (and profitable), worked well and was reliable. What they COULD have picked on was the Apple Flat Panel Display, an accessory for the IIc. It was Apple's first LCD display, and one of the first anywhere. Intended to eliminate having two monitors as above, it was expensive, awkward, and the image quality was poor, at best. Only a few thousand were made. |
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