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Apple not industry standard? Posted: May 14, 2004 George Colony, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Forrester Research, Inc |
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I've gotten a bunch of emails beating on me for my statement, "...Apple isn't industry standard..." Here's a good representative:
A reader wrote: "Please write a correction. In addition to being better, the new Jobs-Apple is committed to using industry standards and standard parts!! Gone are the Apple proprietary ADB connectors, SCSI drives and specialized graphics components. Jobs has replaced them with USB, Firewire, ATA disk drives, standard graphics cards, etc. Jobs-Apple was the early promoter for several industry-standards including 801.2 WIFI and Firewire..." Yes, much of this is true -- Apple has committed to many dejure tech standards. However, the company has often strayed way outside of the defacto standard guardrails. But in the non-enterprise world it hasn't mattered. That's why Apple's impact is on the rise.
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