“For all of the credit Apple (AAPL) receives for its innovative ideas, whether it’s the iMac, iPhone, iPad, iTunes, iCloud, etc., it deserves equal respect for being clever or even sneaky,” Cameron Kaine writes for Seeking Alpha.
“Its story is widely known and all of the acclaim and accolades are well deserved for what the company has essentially created and what I now call the ‘iWorld’ (patent pending),” Kaine writes. “But Apple does not get enough credit for what has become a recent pattern of running a shrewd business operation – or better yet, the puppet master of its competition.”
“The company systematically does things – whether through its words or the projects that it has chosen to take on – and it forces the competition to react – often in a manner that throws the competition off of its core competency,” Kaine writes. “Case in point: Last August I told you that I felt Apple forced Google (GOOG) into a panic purchase of Motorola Mobility (MMI). When I first read the news, the first question that entered my head was, what does Google know about hardware? This was one of the shoulder-shrug moments where the only answer defaults to the ever popular “we have to wait and see.” But the more I thought about it, the less sense it made. By doing this deal, not only is Google risking putting some of its software and services advantages in jeopardy, it had essentially become the competition to several of its partners by now becoming Android’s second biggest manufacturer.”
Kaine writes, “Apple forced Google into this deal by seizing a significant portion of the smart phone and devices market by leveraging its advantages of having a unified platform – or controlling both the hardware and software.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James M. Gross” for the heads up.]