Apple as an obsessive-compulsive case study

摘要

Regular readers of this column will know that I'm a fan of Apple products (hardware and software), but they might not realize just how much Apple the company itself frustrates me. Apple has had more "insanely great" (to use Steve Jobs's phrase) industry-changing products than just about any other company -along with a number of products that were insanely not-so-great (or at least were too far ahead of the state of the art to have a measurable effect).