What Apple’s quiet failure can teach you about your business

Re:What Apple’s quiet failure can teach you about your business by tdkl on Thursday October 27, 2016 @07:14AM (#12804160)

Still better "failure" then Googles "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" with its products (or even multiple similar existing at once - see messaging) that year per year slowly eroded the trust in the company.

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Re:What Apple’s quiet failure can teach you about your business by worldsayshi on Thursday October 27, 2016 @07:31AM (#12804236)

"throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" - Is this really a bad thing? You have to try things in the real world to get anywhere. Are there any companies that can see into the future to see what works?

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Re:What Apple’s quiet failure can teach you about your business by mcphage on Thursday October 27, 2016 @08:46AM (#12804615)

> "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" - Is this really a bad thing?

If you're one of the people who pay real money for a product that doesn't stick, yes.

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Re:What Apple’s quiet failure can teach you about your business by majewsky on Thursday October 27, 2016 @09:28AM (#12804917)

But that can always happen to any product.

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Re:What Apple’s quiet failure can teach you about your business by mcphage on Thursday October 27, 2016 @11:18AM (#12805827)

Absolutely. So when I'm looking at a product, one of the things I ask myself is, "does this company have a history of releasing immature products, or dropping support for their products quickly?" Obviously it can't be foolproof, but if either of those is a company's general MO, then it's more likely to happen to a new product of theirs, than a company which rarely does that.

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