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14:00 | 05-04-2011 | Apple, Google, The Great Game | No Comments
вот, кстати, хорошее, прямо в яблочко:
Google is a cool company. They make and have made some cool things. Obviously, the top two are search and gmail. There never was a search engine like Google before it and now there isn’t a search engine that isn’t like Google. Same with gmail.
But you can’t say that about some of Google’s other products. They are the ones following Apple in smartphones, someplace they seem to really be putting their energies. They’re not really anywhere on tablets. Their TV product was an abortion. So was their attempt to get into social with Buzz, which, after the reputation hit it caused was a total mental net negative. They need to quit Xeroxing other people’s stuff!
между тем, есть и другой подход:
Apple saved itself from the memory hole by coming out with products that made everyone copy them. First, the iMac. After that, you better believe Dell, Compaq, and all the other box makers were coming up with candy color options. To geeks, it seemed frivolous. But this isn’t a chess club election. Consumer dollars matter. Apple followed that up with Mac OS X, whose smooth lines were promptly incorporated into Windows, the iPod (Zune), the iPhone (Android, various Blackberries, Windows Phone 7, etc.) and the iPad, all of which everyone else is trying to copy.
а на самом деле все ведь просто, не так ли?
[C]reate a solution that someone like me can’t even think of. Hell, until the iPod came along I thought burning my own CDs was all I needed.