“The world’s most valuable company is beginning to show its age, said Bob O’Donnell at Re/code,” The Week writes. “As Apple marked its 40th birthday on April 1, there were plenty of milestones to celebrate, not least the fact that more than 1 billion of its devices are now in active use around the globe.”
“‘But there are signs that the company’s youthful vigor is starting to fade.’ Last month, Apple held an uncharacteristically short and subdued launch event to unveil its new 4-inch iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro. These smaller, cheaper versions of existing Apple devices look like ‘solid products,’ but no one will mistake them ‘for major innovations,'” The Week writes. “Instead, both devices look like the result of careful corporate planning and analysis — built to fill very specific market niches. And while that’s not what we’re accustomed to expect from the inventor of the iPod and iPhone, it’s ‘exactly what you’d expect from an ‘adult’ company.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Oh, puleeze. The same could be said of Steve Jobs’ March 2, 2011 Apple special event to introduce the iPad 2 or any number of Apple events unveiling “iterative” versions of existing products.
Looking forward to Bob O’Donnell maturing enough to be able to work out that Apple always intended last month’s event to be a smaller event commensurate with the fact that what was being launched was two smaller variants of successful products.
If Apple had done the big production number in a massive venue, Bob O’Donnell would have been the first to complain that the product didn’t match the hype.
The new iPad pro and iPhone SE warranted more than a press release, but less than a full scale product announcement. That’s exactly what they got. It seems to me that Apple has a very assured view of what is appropriate, but as always, it’s the analysts and journalists who don’t get it and then try to make out that it’s all Apple’s fault that they don’t understand what’s going on.
People will continue to try to make Tim Cook and Apple look like fools. It’s amusing when these people can choose companies to mock that are really struggling to survive. Apple may be older company but is still performing very well and far better than some younger companies.
A company’s age can easily be changed youthful employees or management. I don’t think you can compare aging of a company to aging of a human. I’m certain no matter what Apple tries to do, the critics will be pointing out some mistakes, real or imagined. These people are basically leeching off Apple to call attention on themselves. That’s a pretty pathetic way to live.
Propaganda is such a wonderful thing, you can give the impression that Apple is middle aged by that brainwashing attempt to make it relative to the age of a human being.
It doesn’t take much to rinse that idea away by using a bit of uncommon common sense and mention something like the Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. which was/is a Japanese construction company which was the world’s oldest continuously ongoing independent company, operating for over 1,400 years until it was absorbed as a subsidiary of Takamatsu in 2006.
So much for jouranalist integrity.
Exactly. I further bitch about this stupid meme below…
Ah those silly jouranalists. Love your sign of the times.
Maturity, a euphemism for dull and unimaginative. I guess Apple lowered the bar for company standards.
WTF is ‘middle age’ supposed to be for a business entity?
*Stupid meme alert!*
– Which means it’s going to hang around and nauseate us all for years.
– To of course be shortly followed by:
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