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Re:Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View by xixixao on Sunday June 28, 2020 @11:03PM (#23673967)
This is not how Apple works, unlike FB or Google people stay on their teams for a long, long time.

Based on my knowledge of the company, it's pretty heavily top-down led. That would be my guess on why it's able to execute against its strategy.

But I am not sure it's particularly better at it than other tech giants. My guess for the main reason Apple is so successful is its strategy, not their execution of it: Sell expensive top-class products (even if that means being late to market), and establish strongly walled ecosystems between those products.

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Re:Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View by tonyedgecombe on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:08AM (#23675153)
Sell expensive top-class products

Yes, I'm guessing margin is everything for Apple. If they can't make 30-40% on a product then they will leave it for someone else.

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Re:Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View by Someone on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:39AM (#23676230)
That strategy didn’t work for manufacturers of workstations. The PC eroded their market from below.

Somehow, Apple manages to prevent that from happening.

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