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   From: andrew@spam.net   
      
   David Brooks wrote on Tue, 3 Sep 2024 20:21:14 +0100 :   
      
   > May I respectfully suggest that you watch and listen here?   
   >   
   > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJZ5YcMsgD4   
      
   As you duly noted, Apple and Big Tobacco have a lot in common.   
      
   For example, both Big Tobacco & Apple spend the least in R&D and the most   
   in Marketing than any company in the technology sector in the entire world.   
      
   All Marketing.   
   No R&D.   
      
   Big Tobacco called "Virginia Slims" an "innovation" just like Apple does.   
   They marketed those copies to gullible uneducated people; just like Apple.   
      
   Which is exactly why their customer base is exactly what it happens to be.   
   Remember, Big Tobacco highly marketed Virginia Slims. And it worked.   
      
   Just like Apple's strategy is to copy what other people innovate first.   
   But the fact Apple can't innovate is why 3/4 of the world is on Android.   
      
   For Big Tobacco to simply copy cigarettes is one thing - but for Apple to   
   only be able to copy innovation means Apple will always lag far behind.   
      
   As a direct result of Apple being incapable of doing anything but copying,   
   you do realize Apple is 5 to 10 years behind the competition, don't you?   
      
   If not, tell me how far behind Qualcomm Apple is on 5G modems.   
   And how many generations behind Google Apple is on AI.   
   Or how many years behind Hauwei Apple is on just integrating a 5G modem.   
   etc.   
      
   The main reason Apple is five to ten years behind is that Apple long ago   
   lost the ability to innovate to the point all Apple can do, today, is copy.   
      
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