News: Mac in the enterprise, the value of innovation, Apple Store lessons, and more!

Written by Benny Ling | 24 November 2011
Posted in Apple

Sales of the Mac in the ever-important enterprise sector grew by 44% last quarter, continuing the trend of impressive growth in enterprise sales from previous sales quarters. Even so, the 44% increase only represents a portion of the Mac's 5.2% worldwide market share even though that number represents a 15-year high for Apple, showing that there's still plenty of room to improve even further.

Horace Deidu from Asymco puts forward an interesting point: is innovation valuable? Or are companies such as Apple only as valuable as their product line? He goes so far as to say that Apple are a small collection of (successful) product bets, but what happens when the well runs out? Does history repeat itself, or are Apple just going to churn out hit after hit until the end of time?

Ron Johnson, former head of Retail Operations at Apple, has a few lessons from what he learned building arguably the most successful retail platform in the world, the Apple Store. The Genius Bar was initially a failure — but because Johnson knew it was a great idea, he stuck with it, and now look how successful it is.

Raskin is unlike any other Mac app you've ever seen before. Yes, it's billed as a Finder replacement, but honestly, it has a completely different paradigm of interaction that it's enough to alienate pretty much everyone.

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