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Khanan @ over 2 years ago CEO at FinGad

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All excellent points. It's also interesting to see Apple decreasing the price of the iPhone after it's release. I wonder if it's because they couldn't meet their sales target as Steve Jobs mentioned of 10 million phone sales by 2008. Other firms are noticing the trend, however Apple has been focusing on this strategy of simplicity and design for some time. It's next generation products - the new OS after OS X - next generation phones - are all fun to watch. Also interesting to look back and look at Sony and the walkman. One of the most interesting things to me is that Sony wasn't there to make "the mp3 player."

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Anderson @ over 2 years ago Senior Architect at Computer Merchants

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Hey Davester, I encountered this article on Techcrunch and think it cuts into the territory you mention: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/27/apple-what-could-go-wro ng/ "But when you get down to it, the Apple phenomenon is as much about fashion as it is about technology. You might say that Steve Jobs is the Marc Jacobs of computers (minus the heroin), betting the house his products will be, season after season, cooler than anyone else’s. Yet fashion is, by definition, fickle. Lose the buzz, and you’ve got trouble. And for the first time in years, there are signs that Apple is not infallible and that Jobs’s reservoir of goodwill with his followers is not bottomless." "What does Steve Jobs know that Albert Einstein didn’t? Einstein posited that a closed system would become stagnant over time. . . . Jobs may have to accept that Apple’s next wave of growth–or energy, as Einstein might have put it–depends on syncing up his products and platforms with those of his competitors. In an age of convergence and simplification, customers are ever more insistent that computers, phones, TV, and music systems work together. For them, being “open” isn’t about sharing patent information or computer code but about compatibility and seamlessness, from the phones in their pockets to the movies playing on their flat screens. . . . Winning outright is a very tall order, of course. It means coming up with a self-contained system so beautifully functional that a critical mass of consumers are willing to enter that world and never leave"

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Davester @ over 2 years ago

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I agree that Apple needs to allow other developers to innovate on their platforms, and they will. I don't think Apple is just a fashion statement -- their products wouldn't be fashionable if they looked good but didn't work well.