Isn't controlling the end user experience essentially the same motivation for any large franchise brand, such as McDonalds? The idea being that whether you buy a Big Mac in New York or California, its the same "user experience?"
Wasn't Jobs essentially taking that concept one step further and into a new market? On Jan 22, 12:05 pm, Jason Service <[email protected]> wrote: > Cary, it would have been damn funny if you could have made the "sent from > my iPhone" line say "Sent from my Rokr" on that reply... > > > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > > And the original iTunes-compatible phone (Motorola Rokr) was a miserable > > failure. > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jan 21, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Van Plexico <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Go and read Isaacson's STEVE JOBS book. In hindsight it seems like half > > the book was about Jobs's philosophy of controlling the user experience > > from start to finish, and how he always had to fight to be able to. > > > > It was also fascinating to learn that the reason Apple first decided to > > make a phone was that other phones were beginning to be able to play music > > files, and they feared erosion of iPod sales. > > > > --Van > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "The Unique Geek" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Unique Geek" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
