“There’s an argument in the platform wars, and also on Wall Street, that goes something like this: ‘Apple doesn’t innovate anymore. It moves too slowly, and is being taken over by more nimble, more innovative rivals,'” Mike Elgan writes for Cult of Mac.
“Any success Apple has is the result of slick marketing, rather than the newest technology. But now, Apple is a laggard and is being overtaken by more nimble companies,” Elgan writes. “Apple has an ‘innovation problem,’ according to Forbes. ‘Samsung is innovating faster than Apple,’ according to Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster. ‘Why Doesn’t Apple Innovate?’ asks CEO.com.”
Elgan writes, “For Apple haters, this argument feels good to make. Unfortunately, it fails the test of fact and reason… Apple clearly innovates, and they do so very selectively and with enormous purpose and vision. They have a create-new-market-then-perfect-on-the-vision approach that, while it leaves them open to being called less than innovative, it also works better — far better — than any other model out there from a business perspective. Apple could easily throw arbitrary new ideas into its products, and develop complex product lines to narrowly target every niche. But why? So haters would call them innovative?”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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