Putting a hardware guy in charge of Apple might help the company return to its roots as a hardware-first company. They've been so distracted by silliness like trying to squeeze more money out of the App Store, iBooks Store, etc., resulting in fines and antitrust decisions going against them in the EU and the U.S. on so many occasions, mostly because the company has strayed too far away from its core mission — to make great hardware and build operating systems to support that hardware and produce a g
The thing about hardware is that once you've designed and protoyped it, you're only about 3% done. Next you need to manufacture it at a profit. With software, once you've designed and prototyped it, you're 97% done, and each extra unit manufactured has essentially zero cost. But the same effort needs to be put into the 97% stage of both.
Hopefully the new guy understands that.
I've heard him asking for weirder stuff now, but there's probably a gold trinket glued to the front of it. What he seems to crave more than anything now is for you to totally degrade yourself before him.
Putting a hardware guy in charge of Apple might help the company return to its roots as a hardware-first company. They've been so distracted by silliness like trying to squeeze more money out of the App Store, iBooks Store, etc., resulting in fines and antitrust decisions going against them in the EU and the U.S. on so many occasions, mostly because the company has strayed too far away from its core mission — to make great hardware and build operating systems to support that hardware and produce a g
The thing about hardware is that once you've designed and protoyped it, you're only about 3% done. Next you need to manufacture it at a profit. With software, once you've designed and prototyped it, you're 97% done, and each extra unit manufactured has essentially zero cost. But the same effort needs to be put into the 97% stage of both.
Hopefully the new guy understands that.
They've been so distracted by silliness like ...
I've heard him asking for weirder stuff now, but there's probably a gold trinket glued to the front of it. What he seems to crave more than anything now is for you to totally degrade yourself before him.
Tim Cook had a brilliant career, but he had to embarras himself [msn.com] by sucking up to the orange utan.
Enjoy your retirement TIm Apple, you nauseating man.