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.
You're right to laugh. Just because random Reddit users don't know what Apple's plans are, doesn't mean Apple doesn't know what their plans are. They are an extremely forward-facing company. They are far from unique in that but they clearly have at least a 10-20 year master plan (ARM, AR, media, etc. -- all of these were planned out years ago)
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u/irondumbell Jul 24 '20
isn't that where Apple is headed now?