Here’s a great example why Wall Street still doesn’t “get” Apple: a beautiful, subtle, sometimes pointless, attention to detail.
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The newest Apple Store in New York City opens on December 9th in Grand Central Terminal. Grab a sleeping bag and get in line.
Samsung copies iPads. HP copies MacBooks. Microsoft copies OS X. Everyone copies iPhones.
Look at this:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/16/hp-redesigns-its-envy-laptops-announces-the-envy-15-17-and-17/
I’m the biggest Apple fan in the world, their products are beautiful and simple. But are they the only company capable of new ideas & design? Must every curve, color and finish of their products be mimicked exactly? Is there no company left with an original idea of their own?
Enough already.
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Apple will take care of itself, Steve. Now it’s time to take care of yourself.
While speaking at Google’s Mobile Revolution conference, Eric Schmidt commented on Apple’s numerous recent lawsuits, noting “the big news has been the explosion of Google Android handsets and this means our competitors are responding” adding “we have not done anything wrong and these lawsuits are just inspired by our success.” Then came the slight against Apple in particular: “They’re not responding with innovation, they’re responding with lawsuits.”
Ha! So says the company who entered the mobile phone market after Apple had already reinvented the mobile form factor, the software and usage occasions for the entire industry. What did Google add? Nothing. They copied all of the above as has almost every other competitor.
Enlighten us Mr. Schmidt: is being a copycat company that expects no ramifications better than being an innovative company that protects it’s original thinking? Ass.
(Source: Fast Company)
Three of my favorite things. (Taken with instagram)
Yesterday, Steve Jobs presented grand plans for his vision of the new Apple HQ building in Cupertino.
As with all things Apple, the design is as simple as it is beautiful. Described by Jobs as a giant curved spaceship surrounded by 150 acres of utopian landscaping, perfectly planted trees, vast subterranean parking and even it’s own energy supply, in reality it’s “just” a huge glass circle sitting in the grass. A real life “infinite loop”, if you will. It immediately reminded me of another dreamer with a big idea - the fictional character Norville from The Hudsucker Proxy. He too had a grand plan for a big circular idea, “ya know, for kids”.
Both men have endured some serious ups and downs. Both know success. But only one is a true story. And what a tale it is. But that’s a story for another day ;)
