Jonathan Ive Quotes

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

Facebook is a powerful company, yes, but so was IBM.

We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

The Yahoo story is still being written.

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

I truly believe that Yahoo! is one of the most compelling and dominant companies in the world.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

The great issue before the American people today is the control of Government and industry by private monopoly.

Women will take over the Ford Motor Company someday—and wreck it. That’s what happened at Gulf Oil

Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

I'm delighted to be returning to my California roots and joining Google.

Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

It is time to call out Google for what it is: a monopolist in search, video, maps and browser, and a thin-skinned tyrant when it comes to ideas.

Google is basically too big for anyone to go against in a serious way.

You can't be in a certain business and not sell to Amazon or not sell to Wal-Mart. You have to reckon with them, because even though there are other buyers, they're the only buyers that matter.