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Apple has lost the functional high ground
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Oh boy.
Let’s keep this on topic. I am deleting my original “PS” line.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Oh boy.
Let’s keep this on topic. I am deleting my original “PS” line.”
You don’t see the two as related? I do…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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The glory of the free market is that if you’re not happy with the products that a Company is making you can always go elsewhere.
The suggestions that Tim Cook’s social focus and charitable activities are somehow harming the quality of Apple products are frankly ludicrous.
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[Steve Connor] “The glory of the free market is that if you’re not happy with the products that a Company is making you can always go elsewhere.
The suggestions that Tim Cook’s social focus and charitable activities are somehow harming the quality of Apple products are frankly ludicrous.”
The Glory of free speech is that you are allowed your opinion…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Mitch Ives] “The Glory of free speech is that you are allowed your opinion…”
Yep!
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I’m with Gruber on this one…
[John Gruber] “if they’ve “lost the functional high ground”, who did they lose it to? I say no one.”
As well as with Daniel Jalkut, “with a healthy reminder that we’ve seldom been lacking for serious complaints regarding Apple’s software quality”: https://bitsplitting.org/2015/01/05/the-functional-high-ground/
[Daniel Jalkut] “And now it’s 2015, and in the immortal words of Kurt Cobain: “Hey! Wait! I’ve got a new complaint.” Don’t we all. A company like Apple, moving at a breakneck speed, will undoubtedly continue to give us plenty to obsess about, both positively and negatively. I’ve been following the company closely since my hiring in 1996. Since that time, the company has consistently produced nothing short of the best hardware and software in the world, consistently marred by nothing short of the most infuriating, most embarrassing, most “worrisome for the company’s future” defects.”
– RK
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I’d also recommend the follow-up:
https://www.marco.org/2015/01/05/popular-for-a-day
Fortunately I don’t see Jeremy’s name in there. 😉
– RK
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[Robin S. Kurz] “I’m with Gruber on this one…
[John Gruber] “if they’ve “lost the functional high ground”, who did they lose it to? I say no one.””
Gruber seems to equate losing the “functional high ground” with losing market share, and argues that since they are not losing market share, they have not lost the “functional high ground.”
Apple is doing a lot of cool stuff — but so is Microsoft, and so is Google. I wouldn’t even argue that Apple leads on design anymore.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
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Of course it goes without saying, that I am not only accorded the same right, but the same weight as well… or do you disagree on that?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Again with this?
Not even a week into the new year and somebody has to post the obligatory piece indicating that Apple has “lost it” and that their history of constant improvement and business success is all just a passing thing.
I was trying to remember just how many times I’ve read virtually this same story since the early 90s. 50 times? 100? 300?
The same story comes around again and again and again, always written by someone who presume to know the industry at some level that escapes us mere mortals.
And at the end of a few years, while Apple is still cruising along making interesting new stuff and doing what Apple has always done – the pundits shut up until they figure it’s time to come back with yet another “Apple is losing their magic” story. Someday, it will very likely be true. And someday, maybe a UFO will land. Neither event will affect my day to day life.
Can Apple lose their magic? Sure. And they have plenty of times. But aways for short stretches and they seem to actually CARE about working hard to get it back
I think Tim Cook was precisely the right guy to inherit the mantle from Jobs. Because he seems to understand that it’s not the money or the metrics – It’s the inspiration that matters. You get the best people by allowing them to be themselves, inspiring them, and then giving them the resources to be great.
I’m still reading stories about how Apple software (absolutely including FCP X) inspires people to do exceptional work.
I’m still not seeing those stories from the other NLE software vendors vendors. At least not at the same level of passion. Don’t know why. Maybe those stories are out there – but if so, The one’s I’ve seen are NOT bubbling up organically from excited users. But coming out of formal PR machines.
Perhaps it’s because those companies continue to concentrate on their business metrics first. And everything else way later.
Apple with insanely strong business metrics can afford to work on the inspirational stuff, perhaps?
But Pffft. I’ve read this all before over and over and over again.
It’s the stopped watch.
But historically instead of being accurate twice a day – this stuff hopes to be accurate every few decades.
And only for a while.
Who has time?
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