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The one reason that Apple stuff is so well designed (no, I wont get into an argument) is that Jobs continually tells his designers that they can do better than that piece of shit they just built, no matter how good it really is.
That's a real skill, lacking in most every other company leader on Earth.
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No that's not a particularly good skill. A great boss convinces his people that they can improve upon perfection and that they must to keep the company going.
A boss who convinces the customer that the product is perfect and his underlings that it is a piece of shit is simply a nasty piece of work.
The primary reason I can't stomach buying Apple products is the combination of a cult of personality for Jobs coupled with the shaft for too many of the top performers at Apple.
A good boss expects the world of his subordinates, but makes the effort worthwhile by shielding them from higher ups and making sure that they are recognized for their achievements.
Apple refines good but buggy competing products into great but proprietary products. Nowhere near the level of great corporate research and development operations like Bell Labs, PARC, or even Sarnoff or Thomas Watson Labs in their Heyday.
I am sure there are verbally abusive psychopaths in other companies.
The take home for me, the revealing piece that I think is a cornerstone to why Apple is successful, is this:
“Apple in my entire time never tested a thing in print or on TV,” Segall says. “Everybody else tests everything.”
Once you're experienced in a field, assuming you're good at it, you just know when something is great. You don't need market testing. All market testing will do is talk you out of great products and talk you into mediocre ones. If you don't put off 10-20% of the market with your product then it's mediocre. Bt a product that polarizes people will never make it through market testing.
Now, if you suck and you're going for bland, then by all means market test.
I can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke or not. That says something about the state of apple fanboy-ism, no?