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After piling on yesterday with everyone else who felt that Apple blew it when they announced the new iPhone upgrade (not because of what they offered but because they let the rumors of what they might be offering…ie-a revolutionary re-think and re-design…get so far out of hand), I feel bad in retrospect, particularly after I hear today that Steve Jobs passed away today.
He, more than anyone else, epitimized the visionary new CEO we’ve come to expect. The dreamer who could get it done. Not only did he pioneer a whole new industry (personal computers) with his partner Steve Wozniak, but he proved that it wasn’t a fluke when he was brought back into the company he’d originally built and rescued it from the bean counters by bringing back passion and purpose again to their products. And wonder….as in “I wonder what they’ll do next?”
That may come back to bite the company in the post-Jobs era, when a duller, drabber set of managers will try and continue to pull off that trick, again and again (as only Jobs could do it). Let’s hope that there’s still some magicians within their ranks. For if they can’t create and control expectations (like they failed to do Monday when they rolled out the revised iPhone), then we’ll all be left to wonder “what if we never find another Steve Jobs again?”
“And one more thing…” as Jobs loved to say at the end of his presentation, as he pulled the rabbit once again out of his hat. Just because someone shows you the trick, doesn’t mean you can really pull it off. I think Apple’s new executives are just beginning to realize that.
Like everyone else, I was disappointed by the no news, “non-news” introduction of the “new iPhone 4S”. They saw the hype happening and the anticipation of an entirely new, revolutionary platform. So why didn’t they nip it in the bud? Particularly with a new CEO taking the helm!
What I fear is this…Rather than still aspiring to be bold and “industry leading”, the new Apple (under the bean counters again) is just trying to milk some more profit out of the orignal chassis. Then, next summer, they’ll make all these iPhone 4S’s obsolete with their delayed iPhone 5. Which explains what the added letter “s” stands for…sucker.
Or will it turn out be “S for Stupid” in that Apple wasted a chance to get ahead of their competition and capture all those people who were ready to buy their product NOW (many of who may now go to Android rather than wait for the highly anticipated new platform the new Apple leadership allowed us to believe was coming).
A classic case of misreading the market and sending the wrong message (on mulitiple levels) to their disappointed fans and consumers. From the one company we NEVER expected to get it wrong.
Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/10/04/spec-spat-apple-iphone-4s-vs-iphone-4/#ixzz1ZqzAR8Rq
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