{"id":90490,"date":"2013-05-25T07:05:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90490"},"modified":"2026-10-10T05:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:15:41","slug":"apples-billions-are-building-an-empire-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90490","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s Billions Are Building an Empire for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/13\/05\/18\/editorial-apples-billions-are-building-an-empire-for-the-future?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At last, somebody who appreciates the Apple accomplishment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0The same pundits who doubted every new product Apple ever released are now, in hindsight, attributing Apple&#8217;s success entirely to &#8220;lucky&#8221; blockbuster products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad, and somehow drawing the conclusion that Apple can&#8217;t replicate its historical success because there&#8217;s either no more obvious opportunities left, there&#8217;s too much competition, or because other companies haven&#8217;t been able to figure out how to make money in a given field.<\/p>\n<p>What they are missing is that Apple&#8217;s product success isn&#8217;t a matter of lucky products or of marketing magic. Apple is a cash machine because Apple has invested in building great products. And that means building the talent to conceptualize, develop, orchestrate, deliver and support those products. That&#8217;s something Apple&#8217;s competitors don&#8217;t currently seem to be doing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. At last, somebody who appreciates the Apple accomplishment. \u00a0The same pundits who doubted every new product Apple ever released are now, in hindsight, attributing Apple&#8217;s success entirely to &#8220;lucky&#8221; blockbuster products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad, and somehow drawing the conclusion that Apple can&#8217;t replicate its historical success because there&#8217;s either no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421533,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90490\/revisions\/421533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}