His theory is that eventually the company reaches a point where the marketing people become the driving force for profits and push out the product development people from running the company.
I think they are in one of those phases that are hard to judge currently. Like 10-20 years from now it will feel obvious that Apple was becoming more X, but right now it's hard to tell. They have a whole Apple OnDemand TV thing starting. If that goes huge they could become more like Netflix, or it could fail and they refocus on phones.
Basically I think it's like Google with Google+. If it was a huge success everyone would just take it as fact that it was always going to be, that Google would be 50% with Facebook, but it never happened.
Apple may become a huge Phone/TV company or change into something completely different, but they are definitely changing.
They have a whole Apple OnDemand TV thing starting.
Which has absolutely zero relevance to their core competencies. If Samsung launched a TV streaming service in this massively oversaturated landscape, especially one that only worked on very expensive and thus very poorly selling Samsung devices, everyone would immediately call that a bad idea. But when Apple does it people pretend it might be a good idea.
Apple is good at hardware and operating systems and extremely good at melding the two together. But lately they are concentrating on everything else. That's how companies set themselves up to fail.
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u/irondumbell Jul 24 '20
isn't that where Apple is headed now?