{"id":508,"date":"2007-01-07T21:47:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T04:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/01\/07\/newsletter-371-preview-taking-a-long-term-view-of-apple-computer\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T00:19:42","slug":"newsletter-371-preview-taking-a-long-term-view-of-apple-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/01\/newsletter-371-preview-taking-a-long-term-view-of-apple-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #371 Preview: Taking a Long-Term View of Apple Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the business world these days, far too many companies are worried about this quarter&#8217;s bottom line, so they can make Wall Street analysts &#8212; a strange and often ignorant breed &#8212; content, along with their stockholders of course. If you tell them that your marketing strategy might not bear fruition for another couple of years, they might just sell your stock off and seek another avenue for instant gratification.<\/p>\n<p>Apple Computer poses a particularly troubling company to evaluate in such an environment. There is no doubt a long-term plan in place, but they won&#8217;t tell you what it is. You can barely get information more forward-looking than the new product announcement of the moment. The rare exceptions include Mac OS 10.5 Leopard, largely because Mac developers need advanced encounters with prerelease versions of the operating system to make their stuff compatible, so the news would get out anyway. And, of course, it&#8217;s always nice to play the &#8220;Microsoft-is-copying-us-again&#8221; game to an eager press and Mac users who care about such things.<\/p>\n<p>Myself? I don&#8217;t care who steals what from whom, so long as the final product works. 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