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Maybe not that simple Posted: May 10, 2004 John Szurek, VP, Enterprise Architecture, Clear Channel Communications Inc. |
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All well-taken points, but the big picture may not be all that simple.
In the first place Apple has a very real and significant niche role in the enterprise space, you just have to realize that when you frankly build a niche product it is going to occupy a niche space, and that doesn't make it any less an enterprise product, that just makes it not a general purpose product. Second, I don't like to hear people discount creativity within a company like Microsoft just because it is a huge company. Sure, the battleship takes a long time to turn as a company, but I have seen people of the creativity and brilliance of Jobs working in their own little niches in Microsoft, IBM, and maybe even HP. There were once plenty in Xerox. What comes out of a big company are little flashes of brilliance in product design that are not as visible because we don't look at them the same way that we look at Apple, but it is unwise to discount them. Could Apple dominate the consumer market? Maybe, but all it would take is a couple of really hot products in the audio and video space and anybody - Sony, Samsung, could be on top. The consumer market is a shallow market because it doesn't have all the integration and interoperability characteristics of the enterprise computing market, and teenagers are fickle, so who knows what will happen tomorrow in that space....
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