Canada can't win a Stanley Cup either.
That's OK, my team has won 24 of them, time to let others have a chance.
Canada can't win a Stanley Cup either.
Competition
The Nexus 7 is getting good reviews and has forced a Retina iPad mini update. Android itself is getting "good enough" and Google is starting to take a more active role which will make the platform stronger.
They still haven't cracked online in any meaningful way. And forget about social.
Incremental innovation
The move to subscription music pricing is something Apple is missing the boat on - I went Spotify and just can't even imagine going back to buying music.
They spent too long treating AppleTV as a hobby and are about to have their legs cut out from under them by Google, and even if it doesn't, they basically have stiff competition in a low-margin area.
Transformational innovation
Google Glass is at least an attempt at changing the computing paradigm. Leap is also doing interesting things. Amazon has Liquavista displays in the wings which will change tablet computing again potentially.
So there is a mix of competitors catching up, incremental innovation going on, and transformational stuff waiting in the wings and Apple doesn't seem to be positioned against any of it. If I was the Board, I'd be worried too. They have enormous goodwill built up that could get them through for a bit, but they have been sitting on massive capital while having obvious areas of weakness that suggests willful blindness.
I don't see medicine come up with anything that save more lives than indoor plumbing and toilet.
If we can call Tesla a tech company, they sure are.
The company that mass produces and markets a battery that recharges from 0%-100% in under 10 minutes wins.
It's not unheard of for a Board director to leak information to the media that they are unhappy with the CEO performance simply because they can't exactly come out and say it directly themselves without either forcing a vote or resigning.
The Fox Business News guy said that his sources were absolutely solid on this story.
I see some general comments made about collaboration and a reshuffling of many of the top executives at Apple, but I don't see a video where Cook specifically says that Forstall was let go because of collaboration problems. I see a lot of speculation online, and I believe Forstall could have been difficult to work with, but I didn't find any videos with Cook speaking directly about Forstall. I am not saying there aren't any, but I just can't find them.
Firstly, I call ******** on the whole story. But let's pretend for a moment that it's true.
The original iPod was launched in October 2001; assuming that the fabricators of this story only accept completely new product categories as "innovation", then the next "innovation" from Apple didn't arrive until the original Apple TV and the original iPhone in 2007. Yes, a 6-year gap between "innovations". Then it was 3 years until the next "innovation" with the iPad. But now that Steve Jobs has passed, Apple is expected to enter new product markets every 2 years or else they aren't "innovating" quickly enough? What would satisfy the board and shareholders? A watch in 2013, a television in 2014, a car in 2015, and hoverboards by 2016?
If Steve Jobs were still alive, what innovative products does anyone believe he'd have brought to market by this time?
I see, not very important in your view. Live long and prosper!
Better, the company the produces a new method of greater power storage at current physical wins. Especially if it there is the future prospect of greater capacity along that tech. And they really win if it doesn't involved expensive rare elements.
0 to 100 charge in 10 minutes would be cool and all, but that means you'd still have to be plugging in at least once a day. I can sell you a batter/charger system now that goes from 0 to 100 in 10 minutes... it just won't last you 24+ hours of heavy processor/radio intensive usage.
Prototypes and "testing the waters" with a few new products here and there isn't really innovation. I'm viewing innovation as game changing products, we haven't seen one of those in a very, very long time. Yeah it's arguable, because ONE person might think something is game changing for THEM, I'm talking about for the entire industry and for consumers. We've been stagnant for a long time, what has changed the way we live lately??
True. Be mindful with your lifestyle, what what you eat, and your body can take care of the rest. Eastern medicine works that way. Medicine itself is an afterthought.
And I think ancient Chinese cities will never break a million-per-city threshold without water pipes and sewage canals.
But it changes the functionality of the device!edit:
Making a 27" tablet and calling it innovative is like making a 40" PC monitor and calling it innovative. Its merely a form factor change.
You'd be correct if any of Apple's competitors were innovating; they're not. The only company who has set the bar for innovation for Apple is Apple. What new product categories have Google, Samsung, Microsoft, etc successfully disrupted in the past 3 years? None. They've all followed Apple into the tablet category, just as they followed Apple into the smartphone category, but none of them have done what investors and the board of directors are allegedly expecting Apple to do.You're looking at this wrong. Instead of comparing today's Apple to its past, you should be comparing today's Apple to its current competition in the technology marketplace.
There is no doubt in any reasonable person's mind that Apple's recent strategy for profit has been to rely on the fact that customers are invested in its iTunes ecosystem. Its a good strategy for the short term, but the lack of innovation (dual flash and a fingerprint sensor? LOL) could be a reasonable long term concern for the board.
As fascinating as it is to read the rundown of previous "innovative" products in this thread, it misses the point.
Yeah it's a crap strategy. Nothing new all year and then come September they'll hold an event or three and say, "Here's the new iPhone, iPad, iMacs and Macbook Pros. Merry Christmas everybody, see y'all next year!". It's a poor strategy; their quarterly profits are already down because it, and their sales overall will be down as the new products compete for the same consumer dollars.I own a lot of Apple products and enjoy having their "latest and greatest" but you are correct. Come fall I will have to pick and choose what I want with everything coming out at the same time. Then I will end up waiting for the NEXT FALL REFRESH to get what I skipped this time around. They need to stagger their products. It would create hype and interest in the brand all year long instead of just before the holidays.
Canada can't win a Stanley Cup either.
You'd be correct if any of Apple's competitors were innovating; they're not. The only company who has set the bar for innovation for Apple is Apple. What new product categories have Google, Samsung, Microsoft, etc successfully disrupted in the past 3 years? None. They've all followed Apple into the tablet category, just as they followed Apple into the smartphone category, but none of them have done what investors and the board of directors are allegedly expecting Apple to do.
You laugh at dual-flash and fingerprint sensor; what Pray tell are the amazing innovative features Apple's smartphone competitors have introduced this year? What are the amazing new features of the 2013 Android and Surface tablets?
Samsung and Microsoft were players in the smartphone category long before Apple
Fingerprint sensor is intriguing
Dual-flash is a crappy solution, especially since we're moving into the era of Xenon flashes on phones
There are a handful of phones and PDAs with fingerprint sensors, including the LG LP3800 and Toshiba’s Portégé Windows Mobile phones like the G920. Siemens brought out the first fingerprint-protected mobile phone in 1999.
Been done already. First in 1999.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/security-biometric-fingerprint,review-1062.html
I don't understand this big hoopla over fingerprint scanning. The Atrix 4G had it already in 2011 in a modern day device.
http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_atrix_4g-review-589p3.php
Why is everyone making this feature something that is revolutionary when it's been done many times before?
But of course this being APPLE, many will think they invented it.