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Apple Board of Directors 'Concerned' About the Speed of Innovation?

Time for another "Think different" campaign at Apple...

Shortly after, they can unveil the AppleTV, the iWatch, the iTable surface computer, Mac OS 11 Puma, The 17" MacBook Air, the 17" Retina MacBook Pro...fire Tim Cook and bring back Jean Louis-Gaseé!

Did I give you some ideas Apple?

And please roll out the new Mac Pro before October!!
 
Tobym6 said:
I don't see how Timmy still has a job. To me it seems like Apple is trying to sabotage itself. The iPhone cannot even come close to competing with the competition. How would there not be screen size options by now? I work at a phone store and watch people go from iPhones to Android all day everyday. At this point there is no reason not to. Apple is Anti innovation right now. I would give Tim the boot ASAP. There are new Android innovations almost daily yet my iPhone looks the same as it did 5 years ago. I'm disgusted.
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Perhaps you would like to go n work as the Apple CEO then, you seem to know everything there is to know about leading a highly innovative, and technical company with many different faucets, and departments, areas of interests etc etc...

What disgusts you, makes me happy on a daily basis. I love the solidarity that I get from my iPhone and the services it uses (iCloud etc)

I don't see any particular reason to increase the screen size, there was a report done a few months back which pointed to the amount of phones that are purchased of a particular screen size within the Android ecosystem. From what I can recollect phablets and screens 4"+ were not nearly as popular as is perceived!

If you feel that your iPhone is causing you embarrassment, sell it on Ebay, someone else will be happy with it instead, n get an Android thing instead.

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rei101 said:
I do not get it.

Personally I have been saying that Apple is going down, iOS7 is horrible and the New Mac Pro has no innovation, it is just a design.

Tim Cook is not a creative person, he is management.

Since Steve died many things are not going well, pictures of every iPhone are leaking every day. Remember when the iPhones were a secret?

there are only changes in sizes in things that does not matter. Who cares if the iMac is thinner? Actually it lacks from an optical drive now.

Apple was no innovative, Steve Jobs was! And the problem with Apple is not lack of innovation, the problem is that is looking weak!

I said before but many people came against the things I was saying. Apple is a shy individual today, it is a company who wave is running out and is going to start flying on the air before going down.

What scares me AND MARK MY WORDS is for Apple to come with some out of the blue product half way done. Uff, that would be horrible. Like when FCP X came out but worse.
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It's not like the iPhone 4 leaked completely several months before launch...

You would be very naive to believe that every great innovation at Apple was down to Jobs. He didn't want an App Store a d had to be persuaded.

How is the new Mac Pro not innovative. Monsters university was practically made on it and its tiny. I'm the first to admit I don't know much about computers, but it's incredibly innovative to get that amount of power in such a small enclosure.
 
pirg said:
A high amount of android phones being sold. What do you think the logical long term outcome of selling 30m plus phones a qtr will be?
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I guess it all depends are people getting bored with their high end Android models and moving to iPhones, or are the getting bored with iPhones and selecting something else?

I've only ever known people do the latter
 
What most people don't realize Steve jobs biggest CEO things he did was say NO at stupid ideas that don't gel with the Apple vision. Plus he wasn't afraid to call an idiot and idiot. That was he secret CEO ways along with streamlining both Apple and it's product offering.

I just hope some of that rubbed off onto Tim. Tim has proven himself to be is own man but I hope he takes some core lessons from Steve.
 
Because you know you haven't 'innovated' until you've written a line of code that answer the phone when a huge object covers the camera.
 
Quu said:
Bit overreacting I think. iOS 7 is coming out soon and mavericks, Haswell refresh, the new Mac Pro.
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But like last year's shoes, we already have these.

And if they want to "innovate" they could bring out an iWatch.
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Already been done. Now… if Apple could figure out how to "reinvent" it like they did the cell phone...

Just for myself I'd like to buy an Apple 4K Display if they can get 4K content distribution and perhaps use a bandwidth saving codec like h.265 to deliver acceptable 4K quality within the confines of residential internet access.
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And that's what it will cost you…. $4k. :eek:

keysofanxiety said:
"sources are telling the Fox Business Network, about the pace of innovation over at Apple."

I'm gonna call shenanigans on this rumor.
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Wow. A full 6 posts in before the obligatory (and highly predictable) FOX comment finds it way into the thread. You guys are slacking! :)

iLoveiTunes said:
Duh...Microsoft ... didn't you hear about there surface fire sale :lol: :lol:
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And… yet another zinger for MS who has absolutely nothing to do with this. You guys crack me up. :D

Nickerbocker said:
I feel bad for Tim Cook.
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As do I but I wish Timmy would jump up and down every now and then and work on his presentation a bit. Jobs was all about "passion" for the products and it showed. Cook comes across like he's selling an insurance policy he wouldn't even buy for himself.
 
Apple HAD to slow it down. You can't push a company that hard and that fast long term without making mistakes. They were also innovating faster than the market would absorb/but its products. Personally, I want to see them slow it down and add more polish rather than just pushing out more new stuff all the time. Make it better, faster, more useful rather than just becoming a new box on the shelf.
 
apolloa said:
And you'll be selling that iPhone for some damn good money, something your S3 won't do!
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Yep, resale value of iPhone is increasing while Samsung phone is dropping. Why, because samsung flooded the market with cheap crap!
 
apolloa said:
Your wrong, look anywhere and you will see people claiming phone cameras will fully replace digital compacts, so to make a off the cuff comment about other phones having better cameras is wrong, because cameras matter to people and the market, it is also thankfully one area Apple aren't too bad at but again they need to keep up with Sony and Nokia etc.
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ehmm just one word: Zoom
to me, NOONE is innovating on smartphone cameras (i just give a certain regard to the nokia pureview sensor, but more below..), they're just pushing more megapixels into the same sensor size, sure you went from 5mp to 13mp and from 720p 24fps to 1080p 120fps videos, but that's just the evolution of the same "platform".
i for example can't stand the 24-28mm equivalent FOV of smartphone cameras, they just look ugly in most of situations, and you tend to privilege just few kind of photos, you certainly can't make a decent portrait on a smartphone.
i'm not talking a full range zoom, but can't they even make a "stepped" zoom? a system that allows me to choose between few fixed lengths, say, 24-50-100mm? (i don't know that much about optics, so, i'm just using my imagination) oh and just to be clear, cropping is no solution for that, no.
 
Piggie said:
I guess it all depends are people getting bored with their high end Android models and moving to iPhones, or are the getting bored with iPhones and selecting something else?

I've only ever known people do the latter
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Strange that Apple's sales are growing then, no?
 
Not considering corporate buyers it takes individual consumers to purchase individual products. Most people do not own all of Apple's product lines so the game is to offer a wide range of appealing devices.

Here is one consumer's perspective. In the period from 2009 thru 2011 I could not get enough of Apple's wonderful products. Consequently I have a Mac mini, a MacBook Pro, a Mac Pro and an iPhone.

It's time to retire the poor old iPhone 3GS and the MBP 2.4 C2D. I would also like to replace the mini (my EyeTV DVR) with a 21.5 iMac.

Here is the problem. The laptops and all-in-ones are becoming glued together, non-user upgradeable throw-aways. The Mac Pro will become an extreme niche market thing leaving no real desktop Mac in the traditional form. The mini has become a goofy slab of aluminum that is not just a laptop in a box, it's a weak laptop in a box (for a lot of money).

Personally I am also a Windows 8 fan (with Metro dead). For less than $1000 from HP I can get a business quality, desktop Haswell i7 machine that uses real desktop hard drives and has up to four RAM slots (depending on the size of the case).

Same with Acer. The no-plastic, no-neon Veriton line has 3rd gen quads, an optical drive, one 3.5 storage bay, 4 USB2, 4USB3 and limited PCI-e for less than $800. I know, they're not Macs but they are solid, powerful desktops with three-year warranties for the price of a mini.

From this consumer's point of view Apple needs to widen the product line and quit trying to make everything smaller and glued together. I am ready to buy but I cannot buy something that is not for sale.
 
Why innovate at all? Everyone copies you, then says THEY invented it, and when you try to sue them for obvious copyright infringement....the courts side with THEM!!!???

Remind again why Apple should try to continue leading the way???

Let Google and SamSung lead the way. I mean they are the true innovators, right? ;)
At least hold them to the same level of "innovation" as Apple.

Let's cut to the chase. This is all about getting a more "Wallstreet friendly" CEO in at Apple so the financial mafia can raid Apple's cash via "dividends". Nothing but a smear campaign.

HOLD THE COURSE MR. COOK!!! STRONG WINDS AHEAD!!!
 
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