Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
by otterley on Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:26PM
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Apple still buys companies all the time. Perhaps not always well-known app developers, but certainly a lot of them. (Shazam is one from recent memory, as was Siri.)
This makes me believe that if Apple is building their own rather than buying, perhaps there’s not a whole lot of innovation that the app developer created that wasn’t trivially replaceable.
Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
by kalleboo on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:09PM
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They still acquire when they need the talent, but the utilities I listed were absolutely trivial (printing the time in the menu bar?) and Apple could have easily just replicated them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
Note that nearly all of these occurred after Steve Jobs’ return and continued apace after his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
This makes me believe that if Apple is building their own rather than buying, perhaps there’s not a whole lot of innovation that the app developer created that wasn’t trivially replaceable.