It’s hard for people to grasp the scale of Apple, AirPods revenue alone was $12B in 2021, compared to Adobe, AMD, NVIDIA, or Uber each at around $16B. iPhones alone were over $200B in 2022, which is about the same as Microsoft and Samsung, and if they were a standalone company would put it it in the top 30 of revenues worldwide.
Steve Jobs helped Apple grow to where it is now, but he was talking about a vastly different company than it is now. It is entirely naive to believe that the principles that made Apple successful as the underdog computer manufacturer in the late 90s would apply to the behemoth that it is now.
It’s hard for people to grasp the scale of Apple, AirPods revenue alone was $12B in 2021, compared to Adobe, AMD, NVIDIA, or Uber each at around $16B. iPhones alone were over $200B in 2022, which is about the same as Microsoft and Samsung, and if they were a standalone company would put it it in the top 30 of revenues worldwide.
Steve Jobs helped Apple grow to where it is now, but he was talking about a vastly different company than it is now. It is entirely naive to believe that the principles that made Apple successful as the underdog computer manufacturer in the late 90s would apply to the behemoth that it is now.