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Larry Ellison Hints at Bleak Future For Apple Without Steve Jobs
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Just look at both of their SEC filings and it SAS it all. Nice stock short moves!
Aren't pretty much all phones incremental updates at this point? Bigger screens, better displays, faster processors, etc. The competiton has always "out featured" or "out spec'd" Apple. That certainly happened when Steve was around.
iOS7, OSX Mavericks, new AppleTV, new Mac Pro, iWatch ... and a constant flow of incremental updates to the worlds best laptops, all-in-ones, smartphones and tablets.
I simply don't see this ship sinking for the foreseeable future.
BTW, I have never liked Apple's #1 position at anything when it comes to sales, marketshare or money in the bank. The Apple I know and love is a challenger brand at heart. I don't care if they make or sell the most of anything but they do need to make the best of the things they do, and sell a healthy portion of those products.
I simply don't see this ship sinking for the foreseeable future.
BTW, I have never liked Apple's #1 position at anything when it comes to sales, marketshare or money in the bank. The Apple I know and love is a challenger brand at heart. I don't care if they make or sell the most of anything but they do need to make the best of the things they do, and sell a healthy portion of those products.
I can tell right away that you're ignorant because you still mention the green felt. Get over it, it was in an app no one cares about, and it wasn't that big of a deal. Regarding the notes app, I'll take the yellow notepad theme over the eye blinding white, absolutely void of any design ios7 notes app. But that's just my personal opinion. I didn't care about the felt.
These icons are what I'm talking about. Specifically on the bottom right
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Well, we know at least ONE of these answers ....
The rumored new TV set from Apple is still a project from the "Steve Jobs pipeline", if you believe what was said by Walter Isaacson.
Everything I heard pointed to Jobs taking an interest in Apple doing a parallel thing with television that it succeeded in doing with music.
IMO, the series of AppleTV boxes Apple always insisted were a "hobby project" were the first signs of that interest. But as Jobs quickly discovered after releasing the first revision of AppleTV, the television networks and movie studios were much more difficult to negotiate with than the music industry was. (When iTunes launched, the music industry was in upheaval, feeling attacked from all sides by people sharing around digital copies of tracks without the industry getting their cut. They were blindsided by such things as Napster. So Jobs was able to herd them his direction, at least to give it an experimental trial. When money started flowing in, they signed the contracts.) The TV/movie industry has the hindsight of that whole experience and saw the pros and cons of it. They also know there are other "giants" competing to offer streaming programming, like Amazon and Google.
If I had to guess, one of Jobs' last thoughts on this was to build an "insanely great" television set, so people would have a reason to look to Apple for the TV and movie content. The AppleTV set top boxes just weren't unique enough, or offered enough value to accomplish that. With the right hardware, Apple *could* finally get some real negotiating leverage for content.
The rumored new TV set from Apple is still a project from the "Steve Jobs pipeline", if you believe what was said by Walter Isaacson.
Everything I heard pointed to Jobs taking an interest in Apple doing a parallel thing with television that it succeeded in doing with music.
IMO, the series of AppleTV boxes Apple always insisted were a "hobby project" were the first signs of that interest. But as Jobs quickly discovered after releasing the first revision of AppleTV, the television networks and movie studios were much more difficult to negotiate with than the music industry was. (When iTunes launched, the music industry was in upheaval, feeling attacked from all sides by people sharing around digital copies of tracks without the industry getting their cut. They were blindsided by such things as Napster. So Jobs was able to herd them his direction, at least to give it an experimental trial. When money started flowing in, they signed the contracts.) The TV/movie industry has the hindsight of that whole experience and saw the pros and cons of it. They also know there are other "giants" competing to offer streaming programming, like Amazon and Google.
If I had to guess, one of Jobs' last thoughts on this was to build an "insanely great" television set, so people would have a reason to look to Apple for the TV and movie content. The AppleTV set top boxes just weren't unique enough, or offered enough value to accomplish that. With the right hardware, Apple *could* finally get some real negotiating leverage for content.
I agree with some of comments here about Apple and Steve. The biggest and most successful creation of Steve Jobs is Apple itself - the way how Apple conducts its business has not changed, i.e., they refuse to release a half-baked product, and they don't go after the very low ends of the markets, etc.
Larry and everybody else outside the company only see the products they release every year, and there has been a big gap between products releases in the last 9 months or so. Naturally people will have doubts and get impatient. But you can't cross Apple out just because of one bad year.
Larry and everybody else outside the company only see the products they release every year, and there has been a big gap between products releases in the last 9 months or so. Naturally people will have doubts and get impatient. But you can't cross Apple out just because of one bad year.
Yeah, comedy gold. For some odd reason Ming the Merciless popped into my head.
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What does LARRY ELLISON make? Not "Oracle" or sitting on a board, but what does he MAKE? When was his last personal patent for Database operations? Steve Is STILL getting patents granted and he's dead.
The need a handful of really crazy product developers... Woz kind of nuts-n-bolts guys that just make crazy stuff that breaks all the existing rules...Just to piss Johnny off.
Steve's real talent was picking the best "rough diamond" out of a bag o rocks and then selling it. Apple needs a new source of "bags of rocks" and the stomach to back crazy bad ideas just for practice.
They almost need a second company that can play fast and loose with all of Apple's established rules. Something about one step up from a Maker-space... And when that company finds great ideas, Apple can polish them up.
Well.....
dont take a genius to figure out Apple will have problems without the late Mr. Jobs. A leader, visionary, marketing guru, design mind and so on. A truly and real creative force.
Cant be replaced....... Mimicked? Maybe....But maybe Apple will need 5 or 6 people with abilities above average to accomplish that...and still fail.............
dont take a genius to figure out Apple will have problems without the late Mr. Jobs. A leader, visionary, marketing guru, design mind and so on. A truly and real creative force.
Cant be replaced.......
Mimicked? Maybe....But maybe Apple will need 5 or 6 people with abilities above average to accomplish that...and still fail.............One to One
I tend to agree on the hard sell of One to One. I did not purchase it when I bought my Mac. I booked a few consumer workshops. Some informative others not so much. The experience was pleasant even when presenter lacked knowledge on the topic.
One day I went in and an employee approached me with the good news that the manager is making an exception for me. They are offering One to One to me even though I bought the Mac several months prior. I never inquired about One to One. I did purchase as there was no graceful way not to. Then the fun began.
If I went to the Apple Store for any reason a trainer was following me around trying to train me on the spot. I was not interested. They persisted. It was obvious that trainers were being pressured to schedule appointments.
I did THREE private sessions. They were ok but no gret revelation. I get more from MM or Dummies. The last time I checked my One to One profile it indicated SEVEN training sessions a few listed as group sessions. Not possible to do group as the can't seem to get two One to One members in the same session.
Finally it got to the point that I avoided the store. I was tired of trainer pressuring me to do an on the spot session. I made purchases elsewhere to avoid a trainer following me around the store.
Would be good if they followed the policy on One to One only offered at the time a Mac is purchased.
Not sure why they are hard selling One to One. They got $99 and lost sales as I went elsewhere to purchase items. Curious that they pad the customer profile to indicate we did sessions that we did not.
I bought my Mac on Black Friday 2012. One to One April 4, 2013. Nice grace period
I tend to agree on the hard sell of One to One. I did not purchase it when I bought my Mac. I booked a few consumer workshops. Some informative others not so much. The experience was pleasant even when presenter lacked knowledge on the topic.
One day I went in and an employee approached me with the good news that the manager is making an exception for me. They are offering One to One to me even though I bought the Mac several months prior. I never inquired about One to One. I did purchase as there was no graceful way not to. Then the fun began.
If I went to the Apple Store for any reason a trainer was following me around trying to train me on the spot. I was not interested. They persisted. It was obvious that trainers were being pressured to schedule appointments.
I did THREE private sessions. They were ok but no gret revelation. I get more from MM or Dummies. The last time I checked my One to One profile it indicated SEVEN training sessions a few listed as group sessions. Not possible to do group as the can't seem to get two One to One members in the same session.
Finally it got to the point that I avoided the store. I was tired of trainer pressuring me to do an on the spot session. I made purchases elsewhere to avoid a trainer following me around the store.
Would be good if they followed the policy on One to One only offered at the time a Mac is purchased.
Not sure why they are hard selling One to One. They got $99 and lost sales as I went elsewhere to purchase items. Curious that they pad the customer profile to indicate we did sessions that we did not.
I bought my Mac on Black Friday 2012. One to One April 4, 2013. Nice grace period
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Made me smile - but very true. Thanks!
Steve will be getting patents granted for years and years. That's from personal experience.
Oh that. Ehh, it was partially aluminum and really bad quality.
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So far, it looks like a way bigger improvement over the 5 than the 4S was over the 4, and the 4S was a hit. If the investors were worried about it looking the same, that would have already been factored into the stock price because of all the leaks.
Oh come on......those "cheap plastic iPhones" are mainly catered for a specific market where the current iPhone is beyond the what the local inhabitants can afford, e.g. China. Samsung Android smartphones are killing iPhones in the Asian perimeter. Jobs trusted Johnny Ives judgement. Ives is the driving force behind IOS 7. If we are to accept your view, Jobs would have said no to Ives and IOS 7. I don't think so. Ives is behind most of the important achievements that made Apple great. Now, you argue lets reject Johnny Ives because we should no longer trust his judgement because of IOS 7. You are in the minority my friend. IOS 7 will be well received by the Apple Faithful.
Not quite. Forstall's really off on vacation working on his zen skills. It was all part of Steve's plan.
Forstall will spend a lonely, contemplative winter in the wilderness, before returning to save Apple! And as it was before, so it will be now.
There! That's my rumor for the day.
You're a management consultant? Or you have some other expertise in corporate management?