Is Apple playing catch up?

Posted by radiant1 on Thursday November 17, 2011 @10:37AM
from the self-post dept.

Yes Apple is to be credited with many design firsts and has clearly brought about great inventions, but isnt it true that Apple mostly makes things better rather than producing a first?

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Re:Is Apple playing catch up? by stonemetal on Thursday November 17, 2011 @11:17AM (#3248105)

Catch up to who? Intel, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Sun, IBM? None of these were the prime inventor of their products either. There were semiconductors before Intel, search engines before Yahoo and Google, OSes before Microsoft, and computer hardware before Sun or IBM. So no product companies don't need to catchup to anyone in the invent new stuff space. They need to design, develop, and sell products that people are willing to buy.

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