How does Tim Cook not see that the ease of use of their entire ecosystem (from routers, monitors to software utilities) is what justified spending twice as much on a mac or an iPhone as a competitor's product? Thinning that ecosystem makes their hardware premiums much harder to justify.
> How does Tim Cook not see that the ease of use of their entire ecosystem (from routers, monitors to software utilities) is what justified spending twice as much on a mac or an iPhone as a competitor's product?
I used to laugh at critics who used to say something about Steve Jobs not being around (after his death) and point to that as the reason for something they disliked. But lately I feel that things would've been very different if Steve Jobs were still around. Tim Cook and gang have grown Apple's financial numbers a lot in the first few years after Steve Jobs's death, but they seem to be floundering in the last few years in making an entire ecosystem or in satisfying the various (connected) needs people have that Apple could sit at every point and make things simpler and more enjoyable.
