“The changes are a testament to the remarkable turnaround orchestrated by Steven P. Jobs, who returned to Apple more than a decade ago when the company was on the verge of extinction,” Helft reports. “But those changes have also thrust the company into an unexpected and potentially perilous role as competitors start to cooperate with each other against Apple.”
“For all the complaining, Apple’s self-interested and quirky pursuit of innovation is not new,” Helft reports. “Time and again, it has been willing to break with technology industry standards by doing things its way, even if it ruffled feathers. ‘Apple has always marched to its own drumbeat,’ Mr. Bajarin said.”
“The company often irked suppliers and confounded pundits, for instance, when it chose to use 3.5-inch floppy disks instead of the more common 5.25-inch disks, or later, when it did away with floppy disks altogether,” Helft reports. “But now that Apple has grown from a niche player into one that leads the fastest-growing segment of the industry — mobile computing — its actions are far more consequential and the complaints have turned to grievances.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Let Apple’s road kill moan as they contemplate their own decay.
Nice job there Federal government!
Coddle the bankers and financial mafia gamblers. Give the big oils companies big breaks. Give the telcoms a chance at compromising net neutrality and granting them permission for monopolistic market shares. Allow defense contractors to waste trillions on misconceived military gadgets and ventures
Now go after Apple for how it does business in its less than 50% market share in everything except perhaps on line music sales. That makes up for all the other poor policies and decisions you make or are bribed to make.
Not to mention leaving Microsoft alone for many long years.
I suppose Apple is not tossing bribery (oops” lobbying”) money at anyone, and that sets them up in our corrupt government. Make no mistake folks our government is corrupt it is a front for the insanely concentrated wealthy interests who have bought them out, and are selling the common man down the river. This is not a recession we are in it is a deliberate demolition / rip off.