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By your standards, Britain's last innovation was translating American Blues to the British Invasion. What has Britain done lately?
Because of the angle this picture was taken at, that elephant on the signpole looks like it's walking around in the mall...
Actually I disagree. I think home automation is not very close at all. The biggest reason being it is unnecessary. Open your own doors, turn on your own lights. Make your own sandwich.
Meanwhile, you think we might get a few more solar panels on our roofs and some pure electric cars. Been waiting three generations for that now.
Hmm, lets see
AppleTV - use everyday, love it, selling very well, I might add
iMac - the best computer and display combination I have ever used, use everyday, love it
iMac mini - optical is almost dead, not really appropriate for media station
MacPro - coming soon?
iPod - rocked the world
iPhone - rocked the world
iPad - rocked the world
OS. - the foundation of it all
I believe the person was trying to say...
What has Apple done for me lately.
From a stockholders point. Nothing.
From new tech (not a spec bump) what has Apple done. Again nothing but we're working on Great Things.
Tim & group should get;
Maps fixed
Siri fixed
Security fixed again
WiFi fixed on Mac OS & iOS
iOS. It's a great idea gone stale and very dated.
My opinion, please don't tell me do you have xx billion in cash overseas.
Yes, it's cool, and it's good to see they're FINALLY giving it more attention (like the bluetooth Keyboard support) but it could be SO MUCH BETTER than it currently is if they really put some serious effort into it. As many have said on here, an App Store for the Apple TV would TOTALLY ROCK. Right now the one thing that REALLY excites me about the Apple TV is being able to use AirPlay to display an iDevice's screen on the TV....
Yeah but he does have a point about functionality and especially performance being sacrificed for the sake of making it thinner- especially when it comes to the hard drive. Now you have to pay extra for an SSD or Fusion drive if you want good performance, otherwise you're going to get a 5400 rpm laptop drive...
When it comes to Movies, discs still dominate. Blu-ray is GROWING, not dying. The selection on streaming is terrible when it comes to films, and it takes a long time for the good stuff to get there.
Apple has said they are making something "Really Great" for their pro users- but that doesn't mean the pros are going to agree with their assessment. When Final Cut Pro 7 became long in the tooth, Apple said that the next version would be awesome! (Unfortunately there's no "LMAO" smilie...)
And if you watched your dimes like apple watches its $20M, you'd ... not even be able to buy a Mac. Wait! Something's wrong here.
The number of companies Apple has bought doesn't come anywhere close to the number of companies Google has bought up. Why don't you compare the two?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Google
And Apple has been in business since the 1970's while Google didn't start until 1998 and didn't become a public company until 2004.
You don't work for Google I suppose so that's nothing for you to be ashamed about. And there's nothing wrong with being an ad/marketing/PR company like Google is. Somebody has to do it and they are very good at it.
Oh certainly, I didn't compare because it's NOT a comparison. I'm speaking about Apple independently, not saying Google is any better.
Dear god i hope apple never touch dropbox, better on microsoft or google hands.
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Lol forstall mall
Going back to what I was saying about an AppleTV app store... Here's something that would make a nice addition to it:
http://www.homemediamagazine.com/streaming/ceo-hbo-go-could-be-bundled-isp-subscriptions-29957
Just imagine, you download the HBO GO app, input whatever information you need to enter to prove you have an ISP subscription that includes HBO GO, and BOOM- You're in...
http://www.homemediamagazine.com/streaming/ceo-hbo-go-could-be-bundled-isp-subscriptions-29957
Just imagine, you download the HBO GO app, input whatever information you need to enter to prove you have an ISP subscription that includes HBO GO, and BOOM- You're in...
Why would it be better with either of those companies? They already have their own established services (Drive and Skydrive) and would likely shut Dropbox down in order to have the focus be on either one of their services.
Why would you want to loose such awesome service ? Good that dropbox declined apples money, if they had only osx and ios would have the chance to enjoy file sync etc
Maps will never be fixed. Specific complaints will be addressed, like the melted bridge over Hoover Dam that now looks stunningly beautiful and far better than Google maps. But any example I give will receive complaints from people who say they don't think Hoover Dam is important, and that Apple should have sent a team to their street to fix that instead, and that the people who were complaining about Hoover Dam had their priorities criminally wrong.
On a related note, Google maps will never be fixed, either.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Like they did with Skype ??!!
LOL
What example do you have to base that on ?
If anyone is guilty of buying companies to shut them down it's Apple ...BIG TIME !
Please enlighten us with an example or two.
That's a fantasy of some of the worse Apple "fans" ("why don't they just buy XYZ and shut it down"), but I cannot think of any case where Apple bought any company with that intent. Of course the bought company will lose their identity, and side business that Apple isn't interested in will go away, but the company will live on as part of Apple.