Steven Levy Quotes

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

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.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest more than you've ever had.

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.

The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

It's always about mindshare, not market share.

Sometimes, for businesses, competition can be inconvenient, because competition means that the race is never over, the game is never won. No matter how well you were doing in the past, there's always someone who are out there wanting to take your place. So the temptation to avoid competition is powerful. It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.

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

I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.

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.

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.

Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.

Of course I'm not stupid enough to think that we could take on WWE head-on and win, because they're too big of a monster.

'First to market' is simply a demarcation on a calendar. It really doesn't mean anything.

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

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.

The second you get set in your ways is the second a newer, fresher, more innovative company is going to come in and take your market share.

Market share is key.

We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.