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...ame! Apps are little non-composable monoliths that are only allowed to exist if Apple says they may exist. Software is so much bigger than that. Software is alchemy. It's what allows us to take human agency and extend it beyond ourselv...
Apple in the 90's: Think different. Push the human race forward. The juxtaposition of their 1984 ad with their current behavior is striking. Apple today is...
Apple is addicted to the app model. They are in the jealous rent-seeking phase of the innovation cycle. This means that there are disruptive moves that App...
... most important computing device in the world. For the love of god do not allow Apple to only run apps they sign, that's insane!"
... do vertical integration and get users to wear it without feeling like a dweeb: Apple. You'll know the Apple Vision Pro gradient is happening when you see people you don't recognize wearing it on the street and it's so normal you don't...
...tion is about picking from a much smaller cone of possibilities. A company like Apple has highly autonomous execution but does not encourage high agency for all but a very small number of people. The more it's about execution, the more...
No one at Apple did a TAM analysis to embark on the decade-long journey to get ID cards into Apple Wallet. It was simply a thing that must be so. What's the chance t...
...on--quite a feat! This means that the web is a proper platform with no ceiling. Apple has done something similar with the App Store. But Apple has done it with extreme centralization. Apple's an aggregator, with a strong (and low) ceil...
I assert that the implications of Apple's ATT policy changes are some of the most wide-reaching in technology in the last decade. But lots of people, even in tech, don't really know that mu...
It's not possible to mash together Apple's goal (relentlessly high quality) and Amazon's tactics (bottom up emergent entrepreneurialism).
Reflecting on the way that Apple's culture operationalizes quality standards. To be honest, this is a style of running a company I have a hard time grasping because it's outside my l...
...ve all three of the broad bottom-up entrepreneurially of Amazon, the quality of Apple, and scale.
In many situations, patience is a secret weapon. The secret to Apple's deep product quality is patience. If you bake a cake for 60% of the time the box says, you won't get a cake that 60% of people want to eat, you'll ...