1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial
"The triumph of the entrepreneur over the ideologue."
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Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Thursday, October 06, 2011
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- Name: Mark J. Perry
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Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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1 Comments:
The problem is that Steve Jobs and his company became the very thing that the commercial despised. They have a customer base and company mindset that is more ideological than IBM was purported to be.
If you see an IBM or a Lenovo prototype around somewhere, you don't have the SFPD and a couple of private investigators on you - for simply having it.
Criticizing their products for dropping features is considered a cardinal sin, along with their reintroduction. Cases in point being the sealed battery, no high-speed data on the original iPhone, and copy/paste on iPhones.
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