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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Apple's 'Ecosystem Has Never Been Stronger' and Long-Term Health Has 'Never Been Better'

I saw a MacBook Pro today space gray, looks gorgeous , has an awful keyboard what I know, a more awfully Touch Bar. But wait, what was most disgusting was that ugly white power dlivery thing.

That’s not by any means the apple I adored, it looked like a cheap Chinese rip off in a backyard.

I will never ever buy this, it would make me look cheap and a loser.

People who buy this, do they have left a little sense for beauty.

Ugly white power device , it was really a shock to me, as You can feel.
 
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I like how the chairs they're in make it look like they're planning on removing them in post, so they float for the whole interview.
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We know you're gonna make the edit so they're floating. Stop teasing us and get to work :p
 
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…cheap battery replacements impacted Q1 2019 earnings.
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Let’s be more specific. The revelation that a battery’s health has more impact on hardware performance than imagined—and Apple’s attempt to disquise this fact—cost Apple. Cheap batteries are not the reason. Cheap batteries were always available elsewhere. It was Apple’s refusal to divulge the battery solution and refusal to replace batteries on request alone.

I’ll never forgive their exploit, or purchase another iPhone until Cook is long gone.
 
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Mr. Dee said:
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I think Apple will realize the pricing risks they took in 2017 and 2018 are not attractive and sustainable. They are gonna reintroduce some sanity.

Expect an iPhone flagship (OLED, A13, stainless chassis etc) starting at $750. The iPhone XR series will be dropped, replaced by 2018 iPhone XS at 650, remaining stock of XR at 450.
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The price reductions will not happen under Cook.

Look at the chosen reporting metric now: Gross margins by sector. No volumes reported, anymore.

So, Cook's mission is reduced to lift gross margins. Otherwise, APPL stock will falter -- and that is the one metric he cares about, apparently.

Again, just my view.
 
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Even when it was a trillion dollar company?

Apple's long-term health has "never been better," the product pipeline has "never been better" and the "ecosystem has never been stronger," especially when it comes to services, according to Cook.

"But ... my honest opinion is that there is a culture of innovation in Apple and that culture of innovation combined with these incredible, loyal customers, happy customers, this ecosystem, this virtuous ecosystem, is something that is probably underappreciated."

Hate when people use honest that way. You’re not always honest?

Where’s the virtue in battery replacements and to a lesser degree bent iPads?
 
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mcfrazieriv said:
Profit is not the only key indicator that the company is going to succeed. You need to look at the color of the water. If every market they are in or are entering is RED, then one day those profits will collapse. What you want is BLUE WATER and massive INNOVATION.

Apple needs a new revolution. All we have had since his predecessor died was evolution.
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What is the next revolution that others are coming up with instead of Apple? It's not like these are easy ideas to come up with or implement.

I would say Apple Watch is a pretty big revolution with a ton of growth, especially in health, ahead of it.
 
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Not sure what anyone expected from a CEO in that position, other than a scripted response.

So Apple revenues are down a little, it had to happen sooner or later and it would have happened regardless of who was in charge.

Through years and years of bigger profits and expectation that people will buy a turd if it has an Apple logo on it, maybe, just maybe this gives them a kick and they do something to break the mundane path they have been on.

I mean Samsung announced AirPlay 2 and iTunes on their Smart TV's, whoda thought it!
 
Cook needs to stop talking, or at least stop being so defensive. Also if any part of Apple is under appreciated whose fault is that? The executive team that’s whose.

Everyone is now obsessed with turning Apple into a services company. That’s not the company’s DNA and I’m not convinced becoming a Microsoft or Adobe is going to be successful for Apple. I do think the company made a mistake in increasing prices to offset slower unit sales growth but I think doing a fast pivot to services, services, services is a mistake too. One the current services offerings aren’t good enough and two, if someone can get said services on someone else’s hardware for a cheaper price what incentive is there to buy Apple hardware? There’s no way services can completely make up for fewer hardware sales. Netflix has over 137M subscribers yet is barely profitable. The bulk of Amazon’s profit comes from AWS not their video streaming service. And right now the bulk of Apple’s services revenue comes from the company’s cut of IAP. In other words the bulk of service revenues are tied to iPhone.

Honestly I’d like to see Apple move faster in the ‘other’ category. They should have stayed in the router business. They should be in the stand alone display business. Heck maybe even get in the TV business or buy Vizio. There should be a cheaper companion to HomePod. Keep pulling the string on health and wearables. Apple is a product company. If it turns into a software services company it will never have the same caché or people willing to pay a premium for its products.
 
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No one commenting about Samsung’s price model in the recent post about their revenue going down. I swear the staff here needs to clean up these clearly troll accounts. You can’t just have people post memes all the time in some sort of anti Apple agenda in an Apple centric site. It will make people leave this site. Constructive criticism is one thing but memes are memes and most people who “critic” Apple here never owned an Apple device.
 
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eatrains said:
"Where's the innovation?!?" is the laziest, emptiest criticism.
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Fair enough. I'll jump in and comment that there is indeed innovation going on, lots of it we get to see in the increasing capabilities of the Ax chip line, as well as the feature/functions of their hardware and software. That said - and this is just my personal opinion - for a company with as many smart employees and working capital there is a frustratingly small number of products and updates coming out of Apple.

Case in point: The recent announcements of iTunes content support on Smart Televisions from major manufacturers. IMO that's a great move by Apple, particularly as they move into the content production. However, that also seems a bit like they're giving up on the TV platform. It has so much potential but so little effort.

IMO, **THAT** is where we see a lack of innovation. Apple has traditionally like to make small moves over multiple product iterations, but that time is passed. They need to focus teams on every product and really push the envelope again. Please Apple... make me WANT TO GIVE YOU MONEY! :)
 
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A publicly traded company has only one main goal. That is to make sure that Shareholders Stock Value rises and continues to have value. It doesn't matter if the company is profitable by the billions year after year. If the stock value drops the company, leaders and workers are in trouble and subject to review.
 
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rtomyj said:
No one commenting about Samsung’s price model in the recent post about their revenue going down. I swear the staff here needs to clean up these clearly troll accounts. You can’t just have people post memes all the time in some sort of anti Apple agenda in an Apple centric site. It will make people leave this site. Constructive criticism is one thing but memes are memes and most people who “critic” Apple here never owned an Apple device.
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To be fair Apples entire business is practically based on the iPhone selling, it’s much bigger news when apple claims it’ll miss targets massively due to it not selling.

Samsung makes everything under the Sun and as a group probably isn’t losing revenue, they build Ships even!
 
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It's pretty hard to think long-term if Apple is so secretive. Not that sharing all their plans is a good idea, but I get why people wouldn't believe him. What's next after iPhone? When is AirPower coming? Nobody knows.
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I think Apple's secrecy is greatly overstated. When was the last time Apple had a major product for which we didn't have major leaks?

The original iPhone is the only one I can think of, and that was 12 years ago.

... that's crazy to think about how old the iPhone is at this point...
 
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Apple clearly was managed by Tim to benefit near-term shareholders - which includes Tim & top level staff. We make a mistake when we think the long-term route via customer focus and risk-taking investments leveraging the companies core expertise is in play. Note: this article is written to suggest Tim had to acquiesce to its investors which is not necessarily the case. Risk to him of not doing so, of course, might cause him to be forced out. Much easier to appease them, and pocket $700 million for yourself. Again, hate Google all you want, but they have taken a lot of risks, and may be on the cusp of changing the world because of it (Waymo, Malta, etc.) Link:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/apple-google-capitalism/532995/
 
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Maybe it's a bit off topic, but anyone know how to write a Safari extension to filter and remove content that includes the string "Jim Cramer"?
 
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