06-06-2016, 10:21 PM
Practically all electronic goodies eventually become, for all practical purposes, toys. As competitors build knockoffs and create competition for price, the profit margins diminish until the object becomes a throw-away toy. Just think of how much of a throwaway object that a tablet will be when people will find them inexpensive ways to deliver information. -- as if in recent years a VHS or audio tape, then a DVD or floppy disk.
Apple will have to come up with some new, high-tech, high-price object to supplant the current devices.
Real money comes from supplying services.
Apple will have to come up with some new, high-tech, high-price object to supplant the current devices.
Real money comes from supplying services.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.