[Sigia-l] Not All Innovations Are Equal?

[Eric Scheid]

On 7/12/05 10:50 AM, "Listera" <listera at rcn.com> wrote:

> Again, look at Apple. It used to be that an Apple computer was chockfull of
> proprietary hardware across the board. That was very expensive to design and
> manufacture. Whatever edge Apple had in terms of  the innovative nature of
> these components was dwarfed by the sheer cost of maintaining an Apple-only
> universe. Today pretty much everything in an Apple box is "off-the-shelf."
> Apple no longer "innovates" its own video cards, DSPs, I/O busses, iPod
> subsystems, etc. OS X and many Apple apps are based largely on open source
> frameworks.
> 
> The big difference is that Apple now innovates as a last resort, not as the
> knee-jerk reaction that comes out of the not-invented-here syndrome.

What? Apple using "best practices"? Ziya saying that's a good thing?

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell ya.

;-)

e.