Re:Apple is now an antifragile company
by adventured on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:33AM
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> Apple isn't leveraging the industry to its advantage.
Apple is the industry. When you're the industry, you don't leverage it, everybody else attempts to leverage you.
If for some reason they find themselves needing to eg switch back to CPUs supplied by someone else because they can no longer be great at that - given their scale, Intel or AMD (or whomever) will get on their knees and crawl begging for the business.
None of what you're claiming are disadvantages are actual disadvantages unless they lose the iPhone's position. Unless that happens, they are the industry, they are the (increasingly) dominant ecosystem, the advantage is theirs to press. They're winning.
Apple is the industry. When you're the industry, you don't leverage it, everybody else attempts to leverage you.
If for some reason they find themselves needing to eg switch back to CPUs supplied by someone else because they can no longer be great at that - given their scale, Intel or AMD (or whomever) will get on their knees and crawl begging for the business.
None of what you're claiming are disadvantages are actual disadvantages unless they lose the iPhone's position. Unless that happens, they are the industry, they are the (increasingly) dominant ecosystem, the advantage is theirs to press. They're winning.