An American Perspective
From Kevin Maney’s Technology Column, USA Today, 5 August 2004.
“Apple is behaving stupidly as usual (as with its Macs of 1985, it is attempting total control of its latest I-pod product rather than going for open architecture and licenced production) with regard to allowing other companies to add value to its products”, says Avram Miller, a tech investor and former vice president at Intel, which benefited greatly from Job’s (Apple CEO) past mistakes. “It can only lead to reducing Apple’s share of the market it helped create.”
Miller goes on to call Apple “the Singapore of computing”.
“You know Singapore: autocratic, insular, elegantly engineered, repressively controlled – and destined to never amount to more than a small but interesting dot on the world map.”