On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Rahim Kara
<skunkingrahim@gmail.com> wrote:
Let's take a perspective on how Apple from my point of view looks at things or better yet how Steve Looks at the apple market.
Fun Fact: Apple pays steve approx 1$ per month as his salary :D
Belief in a product is essential. More than that, i think what apple has achieved over the past few years is nothing short of revolutionary. We today marvel at how we work on the mouse.. innovated on Apple technology, moved as a key selling point for Microsoft's incorporation and now a trackpad and a touchpad again with Apple.
I agree with Rad and Glenn on the fact that the software revolution brought about by Apple's open tech was a great step in strengthening their abilities as a pioneer in the tech industry.
There is building on the shoulders of giants as Rad says and there is innovation. I think it's because of the excelled innovation and the ability to look at any idea as crazy as it may be without prejudice what makes it possible to grow as an industrial giant.
Technology as Japhet put it is Practical Application to Commerce or industry and Engineering again with application.
sorry Japh, I have to say, Apple has conformed to both there and yes, whilst assisting in advancing certain technologies, with regards specifically to commercial consumer related products. I agree, there is a variable price difference here. Between the 30 / 50K Laptops that reign as entry levels to Mac's 100K entry. But this is what i believe, in order to infiltrate every market, one must first prove to have the market in mind.
Let's take a look at most of my current consumer clients. By consumer i relate to the guy who is either a student going to Uni or Upper High school and the Email / MS Office ( Yes MS Office ) / Web User / regular ( i want to watch movies, play some games, and do my facebook, youtubing etc. )
Wants to do these things either at the same time or one at a time.
Wants not to bother with VIRUSES etc. and wants an easy to use machine.
Fair enough. It's pricy. I've got financing for that as an option, and now.. thank GOD! the iPad.
Arguably, not the device that is a netbook. It's better. And No. This isn't a sales pitch, i'm not selling em yet. :D
Think about it this way. 35K for a machine that does most of your browsing ( Flash not part of the deal here ;) ), emailing, portability, youtubing, facebooking, Gaming, business related applications including document processing, spreadsheets, presentations, watching movies etc.
Is this not a device worthy of the netbook price range?
now back to the argument at hand. Is Apple really a technology leader?
Yes. In their niche, there is none who can compare right now. Apple recently procured a silicon company that creates their new processor chipset for the iPad the A4 processor which seamlessly integrates into the Mac OS Software architecture. An architecture built on Unix as a platform and as of Oct 2007 was registered as an official flavor of Unix.
Apple revolutionized the mobile market with the iPhone, a phone that all the current smart phone companies are trying to compare to, mimic and surpass, i will say trying to simply because of it's popularity.
With the iPhone came the opening of the app store. Again revolutionizing the open platform for developers to grow. Creating a market for the developers around the world to flourish.
Lunch time. Will write more. But this is a bit of where my mind's at with this topic. Sorry i took so long in respnding.