article of Harvard Business Paper

How Apple and Google Dominate

Posted by Umair Haque on March 12, 2008 11:14 AM

Last week, I promised to discuss another source of advantage in decay. We’re going to zoom out instead, in response to a flurry of announcements from , , and would-be competitors – to have a richer discussion in the weeks going forward.

It’s funny how flatfooted – how almost inept – everyone else in media, marketing, consumer electronics, mobile, a long and dangerously growing list of industries, seems compared to Apple and Google.

What gives? Why is that everyone that Google and Apple decide to take to the cleaners, well, gets taken to the cleaners?

After all, Apple and Google are radically different companies. Who, it appears, have already divided the next-gen media pie very neatly between them. Google, software. Apple, hardware. Google, search. Apple, conduit. Google, algorithm. Apple, human. Google, geeky, self-effacing ad-quants. Apple, a reality distortion field wearing jeans and a turtleneck.

That’s a product market level view – the view from the core. When we invert our traditional vision, and look at them from the edge, Google and Apple are strikingly similar: less like a power couple for whom opposites attract, and more like long-lost siblings.

IBL…

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butuh disemangati

I should got loose from my own cage. Arghhh, extremely need some motivation and someone to lead on…

“wait,, 11 days remaining to Good Friday and 13 days into Easter”

Entah kenapa, berasa banyyyyaaaakkkkkkkkk sekali tugas yang harus saya lakukan. Tapi, again and again, kenapa sih gak ada motivasi untuk menyelesaikan all problems inside my head?? Gee, it’s so damn full w/ something useless..

“sok sibuk kali, may. Lo emangnya ngapain aja?”

Gak sibuk aja sih, atau karena hobi-menumpuk-tugas-super-gila-sampai-waktu-deadline yang sudah akut ini ya? Mmmm, let me see..