[LINK] Robert X Cringely on the future of the smartphone and desktop - as seen by Apple.

[Jim Birch]

I find this kind of statement literally incredible, whether taken in it as
a direct statement, or as its implied negative:

"Successful companies never get beaten or overtaken on their own turf - think
mainframes and IBM, Kodak and film."

The prosaic rendition of the same is that a very large number of attempts
to overtake these large established activities, and, unsurprisingly, very
few, but some, have succeeded.  Rather than being a sparkling insight, it
is more or less what you would expect, isn't it.

- Jim




On 25 September 2013 16:45, Janet Hawtin <janet at hawtin.net.au> wrote:

> Hypothetical:
>
> MS has a goodly amount of shares in Apple so perhaps they just think it is
> just time for them to not run competing products from the same portfolio?
>
>
>
> On 25 September 2013 15:13, Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd at iimetro.com.au
> >wrote:
>
> > Successful companies never get beaten or overtaken on their own turf -
> > think mainframes and IBM, Kodak and film.
> >
> > Now it could be Microsoft's turn.
> >
> > http://www.cringely.com/2013/09/19/the-secret-of-ios-7/
> >
> > --
> >
> > Regards
> > brd
> >
> > Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> > Sydney Australia
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