<story><title>Why Has Apple Spawned So Few Startups?</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_28266341/why-has-apple-spawned-so-few-startups</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bomanbot</author><text>Maybe another reason why Apple spawned comparatively few startups might be that some of the areas of expertise for Apple and their employees are harder to do in startup-sized companies; namely hardware engineering and mass manufacturing innovation.&lt;p&gt;Apple does a lot of work in hardware and hardware manufacturing, both areas which are pretty capital-intensive and might not lead themselves as easily to the startup world.&lt;p&gt;Say, you are an Apple engineer working on the Ax chips for the next iPhone and have an idea for something great in CPU design, you cannot exactly rent a scalable 14nm chip fab from AWS to try to build it on your own and sell it market.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Has Apple Spawned So Few Startups?</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_28266341/why-has-apple-spawned-so-few-startups</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pvg</author><text>Article doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to give any evidence of this. Apple&amp;#x27;s been around forever and former Apple (and NeXT, if you stick to the logic it&amp;#x27;s some sort of Jobsian startup-suppression field) employees have been involved in zillions of startups over the years. EA, Danger&amp;#x2F;Android, Nest, Flipboard come to mind.</text></comment>