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Alan Kay once remarked “I don't know what Silicon Valley will do when it runs out of Doug's ideas."

+1 - feels like a once great product company is now taking its strategy cues from market analysts.

Last I checked, Apple is still the biggest company in the world in market cap. They are also on the very top in terms of revenue and profit.

Both things can be true. Fortunes do rise and fall. Microsoft used to be the 800 pound Gorilla and now they're not.

Personally, I hope they waste a huge amount of money on this push and fail miserably.

I also hope they lose their anti-trust case and get forced to play fair because you certainly cannot hope to make any money in the smartphone app market while ignoring Apple/iOS. They do have a monopoly on paying customers as someone else in this thread pointed out.

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