@nixCraft this indicates the usual Apple strategy on the hype cycle: when a product is at the peak of inflated expectations, Apple doesn't want to burn money. They wait for the innovative companies to go belly-up during the trough of disillusionement and then hire the laid-off scientists and engineers and buy the patents cheaply, succeeding on the slope of enlightenment.
@nixCraft this indicates the usual Apple strategy on the hype cycle: when a product is at the peak of inflated expectations, Apple doesn't want to burn money. They wait for the innovative companies to go belly-up during the trough of disillusionement and then hire the laid-off scientists and engineers and buy the patents cheaply, succeeding on the slope of enlightenment.