twistedonion

Is Apple Beginning Its Long Delayed Descent?

"By taking on product risk, they might put out clunkers (like the Apple Airport Extreme) and turn off potential clients for their core products."

Not to rain on your parade but Apple has been selling the Airport Extreme router for a few years now! Where's the product risk in a tried and tested product that has just been upgraded?!?

Apples core products used to consist of Computers, Disc Drives, Printers, Servers, Software. Now they've added iPods, Tv, How is a router not a "core product" for a company that sells hardware that needs to communicate. For goodness sake, if you had even done a bit of research you would find that Apple is a company that has had networking at the core of it's business model (Appletalk anyone?). When Microsoft saw no potential in the internet Apple created it's own browser and AOL type ISP (Cyberdog).

I might also add that I bought my first mac 10 years ago, the sales person advised me against it because of Apples decline and the fact they were "being bought out by Microsoft". Oh how they declined.