2010年12月5日星期日

What's the fear of Apple?


The overt worry about with the aim of Apple evokes in the sphere of Silicon Valley is getting worse by the month.

In the same way as prolonged in the same way as Apple keeps scheming products with the aim of consumers fancy, the company is rationally untouched.

Shriek "Apple!" in the sphere of a the stage crowded with Silicon Valley executives and watch how fast they supervisor in place of the exits. Or else, added persuasively, globule the term into an interview and suddenly even the nearly everyone long-winded marketing director is flabbergasted.
This has all the time been worrisome in place of me for the reason that the worry about creates an iron curtain ancient times which just Apple-sanctioned in a row can pass, by the side of smallest amount in the sphere of the U.S.
Pretty much each person by the side of each company with the aim of I reason to is under special guidelines not to utter a syllable roughly Apple. (I say "pretty much" for the reason that near might arrange been single or else two personal belongings with the aim of I'm not recalling.)
What's leaving on at this point exactly? Though this syndrome is not news in the sphere of itself, it seems to be located getting worse in the same way as Apple grows in the sphere of size and influence.
On the break the surface, it's pretty obvious. Inhabit are either unswervingly or else indirectly liability commerce with Apple and perform not absence to jeopardize economic ties with the loud maker of MacBooks, iPhones, and iPads. By the side of smallest amount, that's single of the added obvious reasons. And, of line, there's the theory with the aim of company executives willpower often raise objections anyway as soon as being asked to comment roughly other companies. But not all the time. Round about executives are foaming-at-the-mouth eager to contrast their company--positively of course--with an alternative.
But, less than the break the surface, the level of worry about and anxiety with the aim of Apple triggers is unparalleled, I think. And this is made worse by the hordes of oversensitive, hair-trigger Apple zealots who are raring to go to crucify a person who offers even constructive condemnation of an Apple artifact. Though I don't know this in place of a piece of evidence, I can just imagine with the aim of on round about level this reflects the scheming nature of Apple corporate culture.
Sadly, the just meaningful, i.E., dangerous, commentary I've yet heard roughly Apple is from a only some Silicon Valley executives who all the time chat under the nearly everyone strict conditions. In the sphere of terse, with the aim of I assurance to in no way loud noise their comments--with the indirect warning with the aim of they willpower in no way chat to me again if I perform. So, in the sphere of this feeling, I comedy my part too.
With the aim of assumed, it's unkind to argue with winner. In the same way as prolonged in the same way as Apple continues to crank available products with the aim of everybody wants, the worry about feature willpower be located near. (And I'll persist to bad deal MacBooks, iPads, and iPhones.) Oh well.

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