Tim Cook is deluded if he thinks a single $600 phone design per year is enough to keep Apple relevant. Apple needs a phone with a larger screen and a phone at the $300 price point. Their current trajectory is plummeting towards single digit market share like a rock. Apple has the largest valuation of any corporation, gobs of cash, and they can only design one phone per year? Ridiculous.
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Apple Board of Directors 'Concerned' About the Speed of Innovation?
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Most "innovation" is beta testing stupid ideas
Seriously.
Apple has executed, for the most part, finished products. They do not innovate for innovation's sake. What has put Apple apart from others is the ability to slog through with iterations until something truly innovative does happen.
Innovation for innovation's sake sounds like a board room of business executives, not innovators.
I agree it is past time for Apple to have a range of phones, not just two older models discounted. They need to do to iPhone what they did with iPod and fast.
Again – most innovation out there is features for features sake. Not features that are truly innovative or truly needed or understood by consumers.
To lead in the Apple way is frustrating and always on the brink of failure.
Seriously.
Apple has executed, for the most part, finished products. They do not innovate for innovation's sake. What has put Apple apart from others is the ability to slog through with iterations until something truly innovative does happen.
Innovation for innovation's sake sounds like a board room of business executives, not innovators.
I agree it is past time for Apple to have a range of phones, not just two older models discounted. They need to do to iPhone what they did with iPod and fast.
Again – most innovation out there is features for features sake. Not features that are truly innovative or truly needed or understood by consumers.
To lead in the Apple way is frustrating and always on the brink of failure.
true story or not, i somewhat agree with it. apple isn't "doing well". apple is heading in the same direction that it was after the first time they fired jobs. they've not released anything new in years. just minor tweaks/updates to their current products.
Anyone here complaining about innovation and crying because Apple has not yet created a phenomenal phone that could shave your *-* while you sleep or project hologram videos that will impress your girlfriend should take a moment to go out and live more like a human. Not only it's ridiculous to demand innovative and super wow products but also indicates that you are like desperate spoiled children who just want pass their time with some more impressive toys.
Our life is already flooded with unnecessary needs and apps and all you do is ask for more. I am not saying it s not nice to have devices like the ones we have now, but asking for more innovate my *-* gadgets tends to be paranoid.
Our life is already flooded with unnecessary needs and apps and all you do is ask for more. I am not saying it s not nice to have devices like the ones we have now, but asking for more innovate my *-* gadgets tends to be paranoid.
I agree....
As a fan of both Fox News and Apple (I know, it's kind of like dividing by zero), I do have to admit it seems Fox reports a lot of negative Apple news. Such as this: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/08/08/iphone-sinks-as-android-seizes-market-share/
Which we here know is crap reporting because Apple still maintains a very good share in developed (i.e. profitable) contries.
I wish I knew why Fox takes this route with Apple.
As a fan of both Fox News and Apple (I know, it's kind of like dividing by zero), I do have to admit it seems Fox reports a lot of negative Apple news. Such as this: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/08/08/iphone-sinks-as-android-seizes-market-share/
Which we here know is crap reporting because Apple still maintains a very good share in developed (i.e. profitable) contries.
I wish I knew why Fox takes this route with Apple.
If whoever outed this story is working on dumping his portfolio and run, that should not be a problem.
I agree on some points, but others are a bit dramatic. I personally own a rMBP (13") and could never move to another (lower resolution) laptop. Being able to switch from 1280x800 while browsing to 1680x1050 for working and still have everything be pin sharp is amazing. Do note I write code most of the day, but I also use it for light video editing and Photoshop.
Mavericks is also a huge step up if you use multiple monitors like me. Also finder tabs (I end up having 5-6 finder windows open at all times, super cluttered for expose.) The behind the scenes features are quite amazing as well and should provide even better battery life/efficiency for older hardware (That supports it, of course
)iRadio is actually quite good, and will be putting Pandora out of business. Sure it doesn't compete with Rdio/Spotify but it is way cheaper for those who just want to put on a radio station and not mess around with playlists all day (Disclaimer: I subscribe to Rdio.)
The Apple TV is so close to being a really great product - the hardware has everything it needs, but it will require a huge software overhaul. Keep airplay as it is the primary selling point of the device right now. Integrate controls with iOS - I don't want to have to search for the Remote app on my phone.
The biggest feature they need: Allow Siri on people's iOS devices to interface with the living room apple TV. I should be able to search all available content on the device just using my iPhone's siri implementation, and then be able to play it without touching a device.
I think the main issue is that the board/analysts are looking for the next big hardware advance from Apple and they have been stagnant there. The iPad was introduced just 3 years ago, so judging on their past product launches they are coming due for a new category. The question is whether it will be another iPad level success or a Rokr level failure.
You've brought up some excellent points. Other than having their minds bogged down with all this negative energy that surrounds the law suits and related buzz, I do wonder why Apple is acting like General Motors in denial. All talk and nothing released is not a great strategy. Yet mislead by their own ego, they must be convinced they are invincible. Believing they know better than anyone else, it is fun to watch this play out. No longer the only game in town when it comes to mobile devices, at least now we have many great Android devices to enjoy while we wait for Apple to have the baby...
Sure I can see a lot of disruption, but does it really make them money & is it really innovative?
We already know how Microsofts disruption is doing to them.
Amazon has been doing well. But I do see its Fire HD tablets as not up to expectations for the general public. Losing money off of its tablets to try to make up by services. Then try to slip in some ad's later on when that was not working.
Google was hoping to put its ad's and services on Android to make money that way. But it still makes much more money off of Apples iOS then it ever did with Android.
You think by doing anything, is good enough. Apple is not just going to do something haphazardly just to see what sticks on the wall. They have a plans that sometimes takes years to set up.
Last REAL innovation was the iPhone. That changed an entire industry, if not our communication habits as well. Before that - the iPod, with the same effect, entire music industry was affected. So, it takes time but I admit that I am a bit worried too, now innovation seems to be an iPhone a few units larger than before or an iPad a bit smaller then before... The Google glasses should have come from Apple...
Yeah that's a good point. Also, Fox News is known for pulling stuff out of their rear...
Well, except for their heads, anyway.
Honestly, I don't think the iPad was so "groundbreaking". Call it what you want, but it was (and is) basically a large iPod touch. It's what the people did with it and how they used it that made it become so special.
Before Apple products would stay the same for year. Now, people expect a revolution faster than products used to get revised.
After Mass Effect 3 and Lost, everyone come to think the final season of everything will suck.
That's the kind of BS I hear at my job all the time. I really don't think Apple works like that.
Anyway, this "report" sounds like BS to me, and even if there is a grain of truth to it, it's still BS. It's barely been 4 years since iPad and the competition is still playing catch-up. It's going to take another 5 years for the competition to catch up to the new MacPro. Apple is chugging along just fine.
I disagree, and don't think they ever would have. Apple is a very introverted company, and they make products that are very personal. Google Glass is very extroverted, public, and let's be honest, a little obnoxious. I don't see a product like that coming from Apple. But then again, I've been way wrong before.
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Apple Insider folks said back in 2010 that the year was a sink or swim for iCloud against Google Cloud. Now it looks like iCloud has sunk. What about other things?
People who don't make voice calls anymore and just use apps maybe? Do you have kids or someone younger to see how they use their smartphones?
Apple's not in trouble because they lack technological innovation. They're in trouble because they lack market innovation. They're so focused on the profitable customers they already have that they have neglected the area where the market is growing. GM is the 70's is an apt metaphor. GM was so focused on selling high margin Buicks and Caddies to old guys that they didn't want to market quality small cars that had low margins. Honda Civics and Toyota Corrolas won a lot of fans with their quality while GM build crappy "penalty boxes" so they didn't cannabalize their profitable bigger cars. 20 years later all those kids who bought the little japanese cars are drivinf Lexus and Acuras and GM goes bankrupt.
That's where Apple is sitting right now. They're afraid that fielding a $300 iPhone will cannabalize their $600 premium iPhone with crazy good margins. You know what, it will. But if they don't cannabalize themselves, somebody else will (or already has). That's the law of the jungle.
That's where Apple is sitting right now. They're afraid that fielding a $300 iPhone will cannabalize their $600 premium iPhone with crazy good margins. You know what, it will. But if they don't cannabalize themselves, somebody else will (or already has). That's the law of the jungle.
Talking about new casing for iPhone not new then all cars not new just because they redesigning the body . This is no making sense. Give us a new look. We tired same old