Maybe Apple is different? I'm not claiming that Apple IS in fact different. What I'm saying is that money hasn't been a driving force at Apple for its products. Ethics and great design and consumer experience have been the driving force. It is obvious that a company needs money to survive and more money to prosper; but there are some people and some companies that wish to go ahead of the rhetoric and make some thing that they could be proud of.
If you don't think Apple is that company, then good enough for you. No need to discredit someone's intentions and opinion just because you think you are right. Grow up.
Legally, Apple cannot be different.
Of course ethics, great design and consumer experience are important forces, because they get the consumer (the person who has the money) to spend money on Apple (who gets the money from the consumer).
Don't get me wrong, i'm sure companies like Apple make things they are proud of..because they believe consumers will pay top dollar for it. It's a win-win situation. Apple, or any company for that matter, won't invent something if they can't make a good buck from it, they would obviously make a good buck from it because the invention would 'change the world'.
Jonny is basically saying that they are, as a corporation...
fundamentally different from other corporations.
And that's false.
I am grown up, and i don't think i'm right.. i know i'm right, as i was just pointing out what felt very obvious to me.
It's amazing the number of people posting here that insist they know more about the inner workings of Apple than one of the key members.
You don't need to be a key member of a corporation to know how a corporation works. That's what business school is for.
Since Apple has become very successful financially a lot of people have decided the company is just evil and greedy like every other company out there.
Some people, maybe. I don't think profit maximization is a bad thing.
There's a lot of thinking going on at Apple collectively. About things we never get to know about. Yes, this is an assumption on my part, but one that is based on studying the history of Apple. One of Steve Jobs' legacies is the DNA he has instilled in the company which has created so much success. I take him at his word (and Ive) that the priority and passion was and is with creating the best products they possibly can.
Completely agreed, but definitely not 'top' priority.
Now, a part of any successful business is to be profitable, but that does not automatically mean that profits above all else are the number one concern for the company as a whole. Apple has seen some financial rough times in the past. I can imagine quite easily that Steve also wanted to make sure that would never happen again. Financial success enables Apple to be free to pursue ideas and designs without concerns for finances. It allows them to pool the appropriate resources to make things happen. I think this financial "freedom" would have been on Steve's mind, but this is not anything like the motivation (or perhaps obsession in many cases) for profit above all else.
Profits are not the number one concern for the company as a whole? Tell that to the shareholders.
I realise this post is most likely wasted on the many who seem to have jumped on the bandwagon of Apple Hating. It's become more and more difficult to put up with the sheer stupidity that some people display quite forcefully on internet forums. There is also a mental disorder that seems to show up quite regularly where people insist that they are right despite lacking a logical foundation, consistency or evidence. Counter arguments are simply dismissed and things often get a bit ugly.
It's a shame so many forums have degenerated into this.
Since when did pointing the obvious become Apple Hating? I don't see anything wrong with profit maximization, my issue is to blatantly lie that it's not about profits. And the fans who see that and say "see! this is why Apple is different than the rest", when it's just not true.
Are you calling the fans mental?
