They've been dead for a long time. Switching away from PPC was the final nail in their coffin, clearly.
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2014...Apple's worst year ? iPhone 6 plus
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They've been dead for a long time. Switching away from PPC was the final nail in their coffin, clearly.
If you think this is Apple's worst year, you haven't been following the company very long.
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Nah, I think they lost it when they abandoned Applesoft and turned all their attention to graphical user interfaces.
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Nah, I think they lost it when they abandoned Applesoft and turned all their attention to graphical user interfaces.
What blow? What are you guys smoking? How exactly do you measure this blow? In your minds? Please give me some objective measure that's obviously not their income or stock price, as those obviously contradict this fantasy.
Take a look at the forums here. You can see people grumbling about the problems with the bending, the iOS 8 issues, the update today, etc, etc.
All of these are small things, but think of it as an attack of a thousand tiny cuts - each one chips away at a person's faith in a company and the image they have. For example, BB's image was security and great for corporate use, the phone for business people, etc. People associate Apple with smooth workings and 'it just works', etc.
Now, do I think that Apple is ~doomed~, that they suck, that things are going down the tubes, etc, etc? No, absolutely not. But if you don't think that some people's faith in Apple has been shaken then you're a bit blind. It'll blow over as long as things go back to normal, but if it keeps happening then people will lose confidence.
I didn't say that.
Yes, a couple of MacRumors posters are grumbling, some are trolling.
To go from THAT to Apple is doomed, or any effect on Apple whatsoever, is to say an ant fart toppled the great pyramids.
It's called hyperbole. And these posts are thick with it.
Ya I don't see the bending being any where close to being a major hit to apple. Only stupid people put a long, tall flat phone I their tight pants to sit down and ruin it.
I work in the field by day, coach high school basketball and travel baseball. The phone is always placed in an area that won't be an issue. I'd be stupid to out orbit my pocket, it would eventually get damage by falling or being hit by a ball.
I work in the field by day, coach high school basketball and travel baseball. The phone is always placed in an area that won't be an issue. I'd be stupid to out orbit my pocket, it would eventually get damage by falling or being hit by a ball.
Most valuable company in the world just sold 10 million phones in three days. If that's a dead company, then every other phone/computer manufacturer is extinct.
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People don't come to forums to wax poetically on their products - most come to forums like these to either a) ask questions/complain about stuff or b) to troll the people who are enjoying their products. Nobody uses forums as a representation of the user base as a whole because they're biased by their very nature. People have been using forums like these to predict the death of Apple for years and they keep growing instead. The bottom line is that it's the user base as a whole that determines the fate of Apple, not idiot bloggers working for Forbes or Business Insider or the small subset of Apple users who frequent forums like these.
Well, considering the fact that their stock was rising and remaining slightly stable at close to $700 a share, which triggered them to do a 7/1 stock split in entice new investors again, I would say they had a pretty good 2014.
In a league that is "Non-Profit", although I don't think teams don't operate that way.
What? Do you understand business? You are comparing a football team that basically is given fans from the population of the large city its in vs. a company built from the ground up that sells merchandise.
Apple could buy the Cowboys, shut them down, pay Jerry Jones to go live in a shack, and still be sitting pretty.
Err... the 6 and 6+ both way more than the 5/5S, so if it was too light, you got problems.
Can't believe you were allowed to post such tosh and not be brought to task for it.
https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/compare/
We got not one but TWO new iPhones.
We got iOS 8, buggy, but probably the most exciting iOS to date.
We got Yosemite, the most exciting OS X since Leopard.
We finally got to see iWatch.
The only thing we didn't get is new Macs, which has more to do with Intel's incompetence rather than Apple's.
The only thing we can blame Apple for is the lack of a Mac mini, which should've been upgraded with Haswell. In all, I think 2014 was a pretty sweet year. And look at all this stuff we're getting for free. Yosemite runs perfectly on my 2010 MBP and it didn't cost me anything. Remember when you had to pay 130$ for a new OS X?
I'm not complaining at all. I'll see how real bend gate is when I get the 6+ in my own hands and put it in my pocket.
The battery of my iphone 6 with ios 8 could not be great I have more than 24 hours without recharging.
About the bend issues do you know that the iphone 5 has the same issue? And after months nobody cares. If you take care of your iphone it will not bend
10 million iphones is a lot of iphones. Believe me this year for Apple is going to be one of the best ever for them.
And all that publicity of the bend issue will only make Apple to sell more.
About the bend issues do you know that the iphone 5 has the same issue? And after months nobody cares. If you take care of your iphone it will not bend
10 million iphones is a lot of iphones. Believe me this year for Apple is going to be one of the best ever for them.
And all that publicity of the bend issue will only make Apple to sell more.
Address it? People need to stop sitting down with their 6.2" long device in their pockets right over their hips.
Sit on a phone, it'll break. Not a scandal.
Its good thing you the Internetz, or you'd have a hard time finding something to complain about.
Everything you stated is complete garbage.
I think with Steve being gone now, there are a number of missteps occurring that might not have happened under his reign.
Sure Apple had their issues while he ran the company (antennagate for instance) but his attention to detail translated to high quality. I think that zealous desire to have the best quality product is missing and its staring to show. iOS 8.01 rolling out causing havoc, iCloud security issues which it seems they were aware of but did nothing, and of course the iPhone 6 plus issues.
Sure Apple had their issues while he ran the company (antennagate for instance) but his attention to detail translated to high quality. I think that zealous desire to have the best quality product is missing and its staring to show. iOS 8.01 rolling out causing havoc, iCloud security issues which it seems they were aware of but did nothing, and of course the iPhone 6 plus issues.
