Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Two years after Steve Jobs' death, how's that new CEO working out? Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:05:58 +1100 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <5250973a$0$49433$c3e8da3$c8b7d2e6@news.astraweb.com> <051020132312255407%invid@loclanet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Ifoq3ras/8objPgxlIJAYQP3ReG4wntvhmhRRSPmzbX8FV3sw= Cancel-Lock: sha1:A1U8ueUaK/qSze39LeDzsPsRkCU= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:28069 comp.sys.mac.system:49591 Jolly Roger wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> Jolly Roger wrote >>> Rod Speed wrote >>>> Invid Fan wrote >>>>> Rod Speed wrote >>>>>> Or realises that it's a mature market now and isnt >>>>>> even trying to find a radical new product anymore. >>>>> Oh, I'm sure they're working on SOMETHING, >>>> Sure, but not a radical new product. >>> Like you know. >> Yep, because there are no radical new products that are going >> to show up any time soon, that we donąt know about already. > Like you can predict the future. Don’t need to predict the future, just look at what Apple has ever done. There are in fact very few radical new products that ever come out of an industry major. Xerox Parc is one of the very few examples of that and Apple has never done anything like that. All its ever done is see what others have already produced radical new product wise and done a hell of job of producing a viable consumer product.