Butler Trumpet said:
Yeah, I dont think I would ever get the old school rainbow Apple logo. Never really was a fan of that.
Oh well. I tried
What are your predictions of where Apple may be in twenty five years from now? I think I can guess a little bit where they are headed but what do you think?
Well one thing I've been watching throughout this Apple boom is how much cash they've got on-hand. When the media buzz fades, that's what will keep them going till the next innovation (assuming the iPod fizzles out in a few years when every possible feature, like video, has been added and media players truly turn into commodity devices.) And Apple's doing as well cash-wise now as ever. Back in the darkest Gil Amelio days they kept around 3 and a half billion sitting around, now Apple's cash reserves are like 5 and a half billion. So they ain't going anywhere soon. Apple could run out of sellable products today and probably have enough $$$ to dig them out of a deep hole.
But when you ask 25 years down the line...this is the computer industry. There is no way to tell. I mean, as of right now, Apple and Google are two of the world's top brands. There's nothing on the horizon to change that, except maybe a media backlash (the media hate success almost as much as they hate failure). But Steve Jobs does still emit a Reality-Distortion Field, so at any moment, we could be facing another Cube disaster no one inside the company can see coming.
Bottom line? If you were going to brand yourself with any computer manufacturer's logo and don't want the company to go bankrupt for a generation, Apple is probably your best bet. Apple's closest competitors have far smaller margins, very little growth room, lower quality merchandise, and have to compete in a cut-throat Wintel market that's obsessed with mergers and buy-outs. Meanwhile, Apple does more R&D than any of them, makes more on each machine sold, has room for explosive growth, and sets the terms for its market. That places Apple in a unique position to flow with technological progress and changing market conditions.
Oh and what about an "I love Steve Jobs" tattoo?
Just kidding
Even better--tattoo yourself with a turtleneck made entirely out of black ink.
