Why Isolationism & Protectionism will be the End of Apple

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I was reading this article, "Will Apple go the Way of Blackberry" and was reminded of why I have always said Apple will ultimately fail?unless it changes its culture and the way they go about business and product ideation.

For all of those who know me, I've always bemoaned the protectionist and isolationist company known as Apple. I've never used an Apple product (besides maybe touching an iPad once) and never will. Why? Companies, no matter how big, can still fall. Apple fell themselves in the late 90s, until a brash, me me me leader, in Steve Jobs, came along. He then kept everything quiet in product releases. Was a MAESTRO at marketing. But, despite this, ideas and innovation and sustainable production wants to be free. It needs shitty ideas in the system from time to time, because in those micro failures, innovation occurs, as you pivot to something you may have never discovered, thanks to that shitty idea. Hell, I could be wrong, but, when ALL ideas are let in to shape a product (or even a society), in the end, sustainability, happiness, and true innovation occurs.

You see it all the time in Apple product releases these days. "Apple releases blah blah blah..." and like that Simpson's parody on South Park, you can almost say, "Samsung/Android did it already."

Did Apple have a hell of a last 15 years? Hell yeah, they did, but only at the behest of a mortal leader who would not be around forever. That's not sustainability, that's capturing something in a bottle for a finite period of time. It's leaning on ONE Person, not a group of diverse individuals with many ideas, to succeed. Typically, monarchies don't last nor do dictatorships or cults.

I've been saying it for a while, and I knew that it would take a long time, but like RIM/Blackberry, I think we will see the long death of Apple. They got a lot of cash to buy things, but will they continue to buy and HOLD under their thumb, or will they start to embrace the open world (Open source) that android has done? Or the fail fast and iterate fast that Samsung puts forward? I don't know, but I can tell you, we are starting to see the cracks in the Kingdom.

P.S. We have a current candidate running for office that thinks protectionism and isolationism are also a good thing. I for one do not want America to become the Blackberry of economies.?