Apple is great at shipping hardware and operating systems associated with the hardware, but like they've tried to take a functional orientation toward services. The way you scale is not by sachin adela going in examining every single product that marks off ships and seeying if it passes standards or not. There's a million variables that you can never account for all of them which means you have to have sort of a self correcting and self-improving factor built into the product. And i agree this is an issue with appleamy. This is why, back when i wrote that apas orsitial structure is such a challenge, particularly when it comes to services,. I think that speaks exactly why
Ben and James discuss the downsides of monopoly, and Apple. Then, why there is no absolute answer when it comes to integration or modularization, and why different approaches require different types of organizations and different types of leaders.
Links
- Ben Thompson: Integration and Monopoly — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly — Stratechery
- John Gruber: 16-Inch MacBook Pro First Impressions: Great Keyboard, Outstanding Speakers — Daring Fireball
- Ben Thompson: Apple’s Organizational Crossroads — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Why Microsoft’s Reorganization Is a Bad Idea — Stratechery
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