On Jan 11, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Terence Love wrote:
> I would guess
> that Apple undertakes much less than 1% of the design necessary to create
> its products and get them to market. This is true of most companies - think
> IKEA, Toyota, Samsung.... Where the standard time from idea to market is
> 13-17 years, usually a lot of people and companies are involved other than
> those that sell the final product.
Terry,
I'm not sure what this means. Are you saying that 99% of the stuff in their products isn't invented and produced by them? You seem to think that the implications are obvious (and maybe they are to others but not to me.)
Gunnar
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