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“….Specifically, The NY Times’ Paul Kedrosky thinks that, in
the power-vacuum following Steve Jobs' death, the design team, led by Jony Ive,
have been given too much latitude--such that Apple is now designing products
that it is not capable of manufacturing as smoothly and quickly as it needs to
to meet demand.
“When Jobs was alive, Kedrosky implies, this
"tension" between the design teams and manufacturing teams was in
almost perfect balance. Jobs's brilliance as both a product designer and
business executive kept the company from "over-designing" its
products, or, just as bad, focusing so much on the numbers that its design
standards sagged. And this balance, Kedrosky suggests, allowed Apple to
continually out-design and out-produce the competition. But now that Jobs is
gone, Kedrosky suggests, Jony Ive's design team has been given too much
power--without a critical check and balance on whether Ive's products can
actually be produced in the quantity and timeframe that Apple needs to produce
them to meet demand….”
Read all about it at : http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-kedrosky-on-what-has-gone-wrong-at-apple-2013-2
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