{"id":1079,"date":"2015-04-04T14:03:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T18:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2015-04-04T14:03:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T18:03:19","slug":"apples-innovation-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2015\/04\/04\/apples-innovation-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s Innovation Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of our discussion about RIM&#8217;s failure to innovate, here is a short article Forbes arguing that Apple has not innovated since the iphone. Despite the record profits and stock price the companies long term health is questionable.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/petercohan\/2015\/04\/01\/stanford-lecturer-on-apples-innovation-drought\/2\/<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the iPhone, Apple has had no innovation. The iPad and all the versions of the iPhone since are variations on the same thing. The only interesting possibility for innovation is Apple Pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the article describes two types of CEO&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;opportunity-driven ones who transform organizations to seize new markets and operationally-driven ones who boost profitability and make\u00a0a company\u2019s\u00a0numbers each quarter.&#8221; The article concludes with the author stating that Tim Cook seems to be operationally-driven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of our discussion about RIM&#8217;s failure to innovate, here is a short article Forbes arguing that Apple has not innovated since the iphone. Despite the record profits and stock price the companies long term health is questionable. http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/petercohan\/2015\/04\/01\/stanford-lecturer-on-apples-innovation-drought\/2\/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2015\/04\/04\/apples-innovation-drought\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1921,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}