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Visit http://Ez.com/macs From the Editor’s Desk By Dan Moren Rooting for the Competition For its own sake and for ours, Apple needs to feel the heat of competition, and soon. Here’s why. ometimes you’re just ahead of Innovation vs. Old Reliable the game. Pumping out innovative new products Take, for example, the every few years is a hard business model Smakers of exotic sports cars— to sustain—and Apple does it better than Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini. From year most. But a flip side to the boom-level to year, how much do their high-end highs that come with innovative new products actually change? How much do products is that, during the downtime, their models even need to? when you’re evolving rather than revolu- In that respect, they share a thing or tionizing, your products should be as two with Apple. reliable and as bulletproof as possible. The comparison to high-end luxury Not everybody sees things that way, automakers isn’t novel, but it struck me clearly—we can all name plenty of tech anew as I walked the floor of the L.A. companies that have shipped products Auto Show recently. A companion said that seemed half-baked at best. Should that she was often less excited by those Apple be held to a different standard? exotic cars than by more ordinary ones, Well, yes and no. The company obviously since they didn’t undergo as many radical holds itself to a different standard, as its changes as consumer-oriented models. Looking at Apple’s latest customers do, fairly or not. After all, it’s not as if people are going to releases, such as iOS 7, The little things, in many ways, matter stop buying those luxury brands—even if I’ve started to see, for the more than the big. Though the high-end their cars offer worse gas mileage and luxury cars may not compete with econ- cost way more than one that will still get first time in a long time, omy automobiles on the basis of features, you from your house to Starbucks. Those certain rough edges. you still don’t want to pay more for a luxury automakers just aren’t driven by the fancy sports car only to be plagued by same scrum of competition that you find isn’t those other companies in the rear- dashboard lights that burn out or plastic among the Fords, Hondas, and Toyotas of view mirror—it’s yourself. It’s complacency. switches that snap off. Plenty of products the world. Certain people will still buy a I’m not talking doom-and-gloom, that look great on the outside—whether Porsche or a Ferrari, because customers “Apple must innovate or die.” Apple’s not smartphones or automobiles—lose their in that market are not shopping for cars going to go out of business if Amazon or luster once you actually use them. That the same way the rest of us are. Google suddenly turns out a revolution- shouldn’t happen with Apple products. Likewise, Apple doesn’t believe it’s ary smartphone, tablet, or PC, any more playing in the “tablet market” so much than a high-end Ford sports car is going The Race Is Not Always to the Swift as in the “iPad market.” That’s why the to put Ferrari out of business. So when I start to see those smaller company doesn’t allow itself to get But that doesn’t mean worrisome cracks problems and rough edges, that’s when dragged down into feature comparisons in the façade don’t occasionally appear. I start to root for the competition. Better or checklists. People will buy an iPad I’m less concerned about any perceived tablets, phones, and computers from because they want an iPad, comparisons lack of innovation from Apple than I am Apple’s competitors mean that Apple’s with other tablets being irrelevant. about some little things. people will work that much harder to Looking at Apple’s latest releases, I’ve make their products that much better. If The Horseless-Carriage Race started to see, for the first time in a long they don’t, someone else will. And that is why I find myself rooting for time, certain rough edges. This fall, Apple Even though I might not be the first the competition. shipped two major OS updates concur- person in line for a device from one of When you’re at the point where Apple rently, and to my mind both iOS 7 and Apple’s competitors, I do appreciate the is now, your competitive lead often Mavericks suffered for that, with glitches service they provide: They keep Apple seems to be measured not in gigabytes and bugs in established features, such as hungry and remind it that the company is PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT CARDIN ROBERT BY PHOTOGRAPH or megahertz, but in years. The enemy Mail, that should be rock-solid. where it is for a reason. MARCH 2014 • MACWORLD 5 SENIOR VP/EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Jason Snell EDITORS Philip Michaels, Dan Miller EXECUTIVE EDITOR Jonathan Seff MANAGING EDITOR Kimberly Brinson DESIGN DIRECTOR Rob Schultz ART DIRECTOR Beth Kamoroff SENIOR EDITORS Christopher Breen, Jackie Dove, Dan Frakes, Roman Loyola, Dan Moren, Scholle Sawyer McFarland ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR Sally Zahner ASSOCIATE EDITOR Serenity Caldwell ASSISTANT EDITOR Leah Yamshon SENIOR DESIGNER Kate Godfrey DESIGNERS Liz Marken Fiorentino, Yasmin Vahdatpour PHOTOGRAPHER/STUDIO MANAGER Robert Cardin DIGITAL IMAGING SPECIALIST Mike Homnick SENIOR COPY EDITORS Stephen Compton, Steven Gray, Tracy Yee-Vaught COPY EDITORS Sushmita Mitra, Gail Nelson-Bonebrake SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS Adam C.
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