Steve Jobs talks about Apple‘s continuous innovation and ponders why their users are so loyal to the brand.
Want to know how he maintains creativity and innovation? In one word it is focus:
And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Business Week
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The Church of Mac
I don’t know what Apple wil come up with next, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE my iPOD! So far using 22 of the 40 gigs I have, and there are still lots more of my CD collection to put on it.
Re: The Church of Mac
they are so loyal because apple gives you your moneys’ worth. Everyone is talking about their ipods and how great they are, i say go check out their other products, am typing this on an apple powerbook, this thing is a GEM,i used sony’s latest laptop,Hps,toshibas and i even had the “legend” ibm thinkpad, none of them compares to this one, 3 months and going strong not a single time did it freeze, not ONCE!
The Church of Mac
I am loyal to my baby because.. he looks SO damn hot!lol
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The Church of Mac
Although Steve Jobs strikes me as a dysfunctional person and manager on a human level, he has set the quality high at Apple. He’s right on the money here. If you look at successful products, the most common story is that they are managed into the ground via feature creep. They just keep getting loaded up with options and accessories until they become bloated. It takes a strong manager to resist the temptation to please every customer and keep your product pure, simple, and elegant.
Steve
The Church of Mac
I’m more than sold on the Mac, but I’m ambidextrous as far as computers are concerned. I use the MacMini at home, XP on my Dell laptop (D400) at work and the server in the office is Linux.
The things I really care about are the applications really, if they’re cross platform and stable, I’ll use them without even bothering which computer I’m using them on for the most part.
The thing that tees me off at the Mac is that it’s Arabic keyboard layout is so vastly different from Windows that I it takes me 3 times as long to type on the Mac as compared to the PC (but then if you want to compare my typing abilities on the PC between English and Arabic, then I type Arabic 50 times slower than English!)
The applications I use day in and day out are:
1. FireFox
2. Thunderbird
3. OpenOffice
4. FileMaker Pro (a throwback from my original Mac days in 1991 – 1996! and yes, we still do use the databases I designed way back then)
I tend to now use Safari and Mail on the Mac much more than FF the TB because they are more eligant.
The Church of Mac
Apple it seems is having a hard time meeting demand which is not good. Yep profits are up but if you can’t meet demand often people will go elsewhere. With the “Silly Season” upon us, now is not the time to have supply problems for your best selling products. And with the new rollout of the new iTunes 6 platform and the new video iPod they want to offer downloads of TV shows with ABC/Disney and perhaps others as well. I can see advertisers being a little chapped about this as well as firms like Tivo.
Re: The Church of Mac
You’re forcing me to reveal my secret project which is still WIP!
The Church of Mac
I think macs are a very high quality product
and i always know that apple intentions is not only your pocket money
but they are actually trying to produce computers that work
quality , money worth components, its beautiful simple life!
want to get complicated get linux
want not to know what the heck is going on, get windows
not even bill gates can solve all its problems…i hope u saw that video where the system froze in public tv as he was just aout to show a demo!