Comments on: Steve Jobs: Icon or “I con”? http://ianmurdock.com/apple/steve-jobs-icon-or-i-con/ Linux old timer. Debian founder. Sun alum. Salesforce ExactTarget exec. Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:38:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.2 By: Sef Tarbell http://ianmurdock.com/apple/steve-jobs-icon-or-i-con/comment-page-1/#comment-215 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://ianmurdock.com/wp/?p=179#comment-215 What huge opportunity is that you see Apple as blowing? The opportunity to be the maker of some of the best hardware in the biz? Nope, they got that covered… Maybe it’s to be the maker of a fine, easy-to-use OS? Check… How about letting other companies walk all over them? Yes, they are missing that opportunity. When Adobe started to let their Mac support slide, Apple slapped them. I suppose you could argue that it was the other way around, but that’s not the way I see it. Apple is being a little aggressive towards Adobe, more than I am comfortable with, but in my mind, they didn’t start it. Illustrator and PhotoShop would have died long ago without the Mac platform and Adobe doesn’t seem to have any loyalty to the platform that helped them conquer that market.

And what does “All the world’s an Apple” mean anyway? Apple is fully aware that their market share is tiny, which is why they seem to be concentrating on the iPod. That’s the part of their strategy I don’t get. (evangelist hat on) The Mac is the best computing platform currently on the market – the best hardware, the best OS, a killer sense of style, and a small price difference. (hat off) I hope that Bill Gates is remembered. And I hope people learn from his lessons, mediocrity sells well.

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