{"id":5528,"date":"2010-02-07T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2010-02-06T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T04:19:08","slug":"newsletter-issue-532-the-waiting-for-apple-to-fail-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2010\/02\/newsletter-issue-532-the-waiting-for-apple-to-fail-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #532: The Waiting for Apple to Fail Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are strange beasts. I wonder what an alien race might think of us if they come to Earth to observe our society and psychology. Consider how we root for the winner, and then, in an abrupt change of face, fervently hope for their defeat.<\/p>\n<p>So consider Apple\u2019s plight over the years. Despite a loyal fan base, it hasn\u2019t always been so easy to get the press to come along for the ride, except for those who depend on Mac users for all or most of their traffic. Indeed, The Mac Observer had an Apple \u201cdeath knell\u201d section for years, where they\u2019d recount the latest efforts on the part of the media to declare the company an abject failure.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not as if Apple didn\u2019t help things along. Consider all the missteps they made over the years. Despite having what was undeniably a superior product, a knock-off, better known as Windows, ruled the operating system empire then and now.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say that the Mac could have achieved total dominance in the same fashion as Apple has today with the iPod. But it wouldn\u2019t be so one-sided a battle if Apple\u2019s executives in those years had a clear-eyed vision for the future and not the failed vision of salespeople whose only concern was this quarter and the next, while innovation took a back seat.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2010\/02\/newsletter-issue-532\/#seat\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are strange beasts. I wonder what an alien race might think of us if they come to Earth to observe our society and psychology. Consider how we root for the winner, and then, in an abrupt change of face, fervently hope for their defeat. So consider Apple\u2019s plight over the years. 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