Comment Why do people hate Apple? (Score 1) 1170
Why do people hate Apple?
What is it about a computer company that only controls 5% of the market that people find so threatening that they have to call for it's destruction? It seems rather odd to me that there is so much vitriol out there that people take the time to tell Steve Jobs and Apple to just give up. Go away. You can't win. You haven't got a chance. You do everything wrong. Nobody wants your innovation. Nobody is going to pay what you ask for your machines.
What I don't understand is, if all this is true, why are you wasting breath on it? Why not just let market forces, that you claim to understand better than Apple, take their course and let Apple go down on it's own? (It also seems odd that this same vehemence isn't directed at the other competitors on the field. Where are the people railing for SGI or SUN to give it up, you haven't got a chance?)
On reflection it actually seems contrary that people would call for the end of Apple. Many a pundit criticizes Apple's innovations, designs and ideas, saying the people don't want that, won't buy that, whatever, and they point to all of Apple's failed devices as proof. But the irony lies in how many of those innovative machines and ideas were eventually co-opted and adapted by the computer industry as a whole. The biggest being the windows interface with the Lisa (a flop), but the list is much grander than that: The first mouse, the first with a 3.5 inch floppy, the first notebook computer (Powerbook), the first PDA (Newton, a flop), the first digital camera (Quickpix, a flop), the first CDROM, the first consumer inkjet (Color Style Writer, a flop), the first with standard USB, the first DVD burner, the first track pad, the first multiple monitor display. Before Microsoft looked to the game market Apple tried the Pippin (a flop). The first to bring word processing, photographic editing and video editing to the consumer. The first to different colors and plastics. The first with no fan. What am I forgetting? I'm sure a ton, but I think you get the point.
And I know your response. Look at how many of those failed! See? See? I was right! Apple is a screw up!
But each and every one of those innovations, successful or not, was eventually adopted by the rest of the industry, often for cheaper, sometimes better, more often not. Do you see what this means? It means that Apple is the R&D department for the rest of the industry! While Apple spends billions of dollars developing these amazing toys and bringing them to market as best they can, the rest of the industry sits on it's ass and just waits. Apple comes out with something cool and everyone else says, hey, that's neat. Lets do that too. And they do. And everyone takes a step forward. Now Apple may find them selves priced out of the area but, well, that's the market. You think Apple will die because of it? Fine. Shut up and let nature take its course.
But look at what you have? You have a company that only has 5% of the market, communicates just fine with the other 95% (so it's not an issue of creating work flow interruptions or what ever), that is actively leading the industry into the future, and isn't hurting anyone. In fact, I feel I've argued that the loss of Apple would actually hurt the industry and reduce the amount of innovation, change and improvements that we see everywhere.
So back to my original, mind boggling question: Why do people hate Apple?
lezone
What is it about a computer company that only controls 5% of the market that people find so threatening that they have to call for it's destruction? It seems rather odd to me that there is so much vitriol out there that people take the time to tell Steve Jobs and Apple to just give up. Go away. You can't win. You haven't got a chance. You do everything wrong. Nobody wants your innovation. Nobody is going to pay what you ask for your machines.
What I don't understand is, if all this is true, why are you wasting breath on it? Why not just let market forces, that you claim to understand better than Apple, take their course and let Apple go down on it's own? (It also seems odd that this same vehemence isn't directed at the other competitors on the field. Where are the people railing for SGI or SUN to give it up, you haven't got a chance?)
On reflection it actually seems contrary that people would call for the end of Apple. Many a pundit criticizes Apple's innovations, designs and ideas, saying the people don't want that, won't buy that, whatever, and they point to all of Apple's failed devices as proof. But the irony lies in how many of those innovative machines and ideas were eventually co-opted and adapted by the computer industry as a whole. The biggest being the windows interface with the Lisa (a flop), but the list is much grander than that: The first mouse, the first with a 3.5 inch floppy, the first notebook computer (Powerbook), the first PDA (Newton, a flop), the first digital camera (Quickpix, a flop), the first CDROM, the first consumer inkjet (Color Style Writer, a flop), the first with standard USB, the first DVD burner, the first track pad, the first multiple monitor display. Before Microsoft looked to the game market Apple tried the Pippin (a flop). The first to bring word processing, photographic editing and video editing to the consumer. The first to different colors and plastics. The first with no fan. What am I forgetting? I'm sure a ton, but I think you get the point.
And I know your response. Look at how many of those failed! See? See? I was right! Apple is a screw up!
But each and every one of those innovations, successful or not, was eventually adopted by the rest of the industry, often for cheaper, sometimes better, more often not. Do you see what this means? It means that Apple is the R&D department for the rest of the industry! While Apple spends billions of dollars developing these amazing toys and bringing them to market as best they can, the rest of the industry sits on it's ass and just waits. Apple comes out with something cool and everyone else says, hey, that's neat. Lets do that too. And they do. And everyone takes a step forward. Now Apple may find them selves priced out of the area but, well, that's the market. You think Apple will die because of it? Fine. Shut up and let nature take its course.
But look at what you have? You have a company that only has 5% of the market, communicates just fine with the other 95% (so it's not an issue of creating work flow interruptions or what ever), that is actively leading the industry into the future, and isn't hurting anyone. In fact, I feel I've argued that the loss of Apple would actually hurt the industry and reduce the amount of innovation, change and improvements that we see everywhere.
So back to my original, mind boggling question: Why do people hate Apple?
lezone
