It’s the question to answer based on comments I received to yesterday’s post about Apple CEO Steve Job’s return from medical leave. Some commenters scolded me—OK, one said I should commit suicide—for the tone of the post. Many others asserted that Apple has always improved products incrementally.
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2009 keynote was the strangest ever—and not just for CEO Steve Jobs’ absence. Apple cut prices where unexpected, while keeping them high where Wall Street analysts expected cuts. The $29 Snow Leopard upgrade is simply stunning.
Everyone should ask: Why is Apple is asking so little for seemingly so much? That from a company that normally charges more for products.
This second installment of Quick Quotes focuses on Apple’s announcements from the Worldwide Developer Conference.
Microsoft’s newest “Laptop Hunters” commercial, embedded below, is the most ambitious yet and perhaps most misleading. The buyer’s budget is bigger and her laptop criteria slaps Apple where it hurts: Among core constituency of artists, designers and filmmakers.
