{"id":24718,"date":"2011-11-06T15:37:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T15:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/apple-has-built-a-closed-ecosystem-where-it-exerts\/"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T15:37:06","slug":"apple-has-built-a-closed-ecosystem-where-it-exerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/apple-has-built-a-closed-ecosystem-where-it-exerts\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Apple has built a closed ecosystem where it exerts control over nearly every piece of the supply chain, from design to retail store. Because of its volume\u2014and its occasional ruthlessness\u2014Apple gets big discounts on parts, manufacturing capacity, and air freight. \u201cOperations expertise is as big an asset for Apple as product innovation or marketing,\u201d says Mike Fawkes, the former supply-chain chief at Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and now a venture capitalist with VantagePoint Capital Partners. \u201cThey\u2019ve taken operational excellence to a level never seen before.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/apples-supplychain-secret-hoard-lasers-11032011.html\">Apple&rsquo;s Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers &#8211; Businessweek<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has built a closed ecosystem where it exerts control over nearly every piece of the supply chain, from design to retail store. Because of its volume\u2014and its occasional ruthlessness\u2014Apple gets big discounts on parts, manufacturing capacity, and air freight. \u201cOperations expertise is as big an asset for Apple as product innovation or marketing,\u201d says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6qG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}