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Title: The Macalope: High-hanging fruit Post by: HCK on February 26, 2013, 11:01:03 pm The Macalope: High-hanging fruit
The Macalope sometimes excuses himself for picking the low-hanging fruit when it is particularly lush. But it’s not always the lowest fruit that’s the fruitiest. Writing for the New Yorker, Tim Wu asks “Does a Company Like Apple Need a Genius Like Steve Jobs?” (tip o’ the antlers to Nick Heer). Yep. Heeeeere we go again. The old tech adage is that “open beats closed.” In other words, open technological systems, or those that allow interoperability, always beat their closed competitors. This is an article of faith for certain engineers. It’s also the lesson from Windows’ defeat of the Apple Macintosh in the nineteen-nineties, Google’s triumph in the early aughts, and, more broadly, the success of the Internet over its closed rivals (remember AOL?). But is it still true? To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here http://www.macworld.com/article/2029364/macalope-high-hanging-fruit.html |