People love to parrot this, yet if you think for a second this isnt true at all in all the many ways.
1. Siri - not the first assistant, absolute garbage.
2. Apple Maps (original) - utter garbage at launch, slightly better today in US.
3. Vision Pro - Not the first VR headset. Massive failure.
If anything, Apple has been tremendously successful few times when they were not first (phones, tablets, silicon ..) but they have also been tremendously faltered when they were not first.
Non sequitur. Nobody argued everything Apple has ever launched has been a success. I'm just pushing back on the notion that the "problem with Apple is that their corporate culture doesn't vibe well with a lot of new tech." That's not a problem, that's the key to their success (where it's been found).
These first two bullets launched well over a decade ago.
The third bullet is soft because ALL vr headsets have been flops.
All told you are actually painting a pretty solid picture of apples track record. They’ve launched so many things in the past 20 years and expanded into new markets (wearables, headphones, streaming hardware and services) that it’s impressive there aren’t more flops
1. Siri - not the first assistant, absolute garbage.
2. Apple Maps (original) - utter garbage at launch, slightly better today in US.
3. Vision Pro - Not the first VR headset. Massive failure.
If anything, Apple has been tremendously successful few times when they were not first (phones, tablets, silicon ..) but they have also been tremendously faltered when they were not first.