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by 3amOpsGuy
4841 days ago
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Where's the "who cares" comment for me to upvote. Really, it's apple, they've peaked already. Show me the new cool thing. Please don't read this as a suggestion apple is dead, it's anything but dead, in the same way Microsoft is. |
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That is just conventional wisdom. Who said they have "peaked already"?
Three objections:
1) People would have said the same thing pre iPhone ("oh, they have peaked with the iPod"), and pre-iPad. And they indeed said it.
2) This iPad thing isn't even 2 years old. Yes, you read that correctly. It was introduced LESS than 2 years ago (actually closing to 2 years any day now, it was on late march 2010). Since then they have also established hi-dpi displays for phones, tablets and laptops, and of course Air-style ultraportables.
3) All the "new cool things" I've seen from third party companies all these years have been ho-hum, me-too stuff (Surface, etc) or vaporware (Google Glasses). It's like, besides Apple, nobody introduces anything that is both successful AND interesting to the mass markets anymore.
Google, for example, had it's moments with Search and Gmail. Since then, what exactly have they put out that's interesting AND has caught on with people? Android: successful but not interesting. Glasses: interesting but not successful (or even "a product"). Etc.