The similarities are shocking 33 years later and the world has moved on. And in 1985 apple was worth what? 10 million. Today it's worth $750 billion. And that number is a credit to Tim Cook.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Apple's 'Ecosystem Has Never Been Stronger' and Long-Term Health Has 'Never Been Better'
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Yes, it sooo hobbled. You seem to have "forgotten" about the four 40 Gbit/sec Thunderbolt 3 ports, two USB 3 ports, HDMI 2, six core CPU option, up to 64GB memory, ability to drive three 4K displays, >2GB/sec SSD read rates, Bluetooth 5.0, 150 watt built-in power supply, and an option for 10Gb/sec ethernet. Just like the Mini from four years ago.
But yes, if your main focus when shopping for a computer is about looks, I can see why you're steamed about the case.
The problem is that there is far more negative than positive, let me give you some examples:
Siri is horribly stagnant and behind the competition. Look at the breakthrough Alexa is happening in the world, that should have been Apple. Alexa is frickin everywhere, from Ecobee's thermostat, to Sono's smart speaker. In the meantime Homepod remains limited, it's got caveman Siri with only Apple music, no Spotify connect. A product without vision.
Apple maps: When the iPhone came out, Apple maps was ahead of its time, now it's been stagnant and behind the competition.
iOS on iPad - There is no vision for iOS, the amazing iPad hardware is being limited by its OS.
What happened to the revolutionary TV service that Steve Jobs said he had cracked? Spotify beat Apple in leading the music streaming revolution, and it looks like Apple is behind in leading the TV streaming revolution as well.
iCar? Dead.
Yes, Apple is amazingly profitable and valuable, but the fact is it's living off Steve's foundations, and it's not doing much to keep the company sustainable for the next decade.
Which industries did the iPhone create? At most, existing industries ported to the product.
Sounds like someone who is afraid to admit that his company is dying
Everything that came about because of the modern smartphone. Remember that Android was going to compete with Blackberry. Windows Mobile was competing with Blackberry.
Your example ignores the context. Ferrari doesn’t court the same customer as Toyota, whereas Apple and Android do.
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??? Give examples. Otherwise, refrain from making bold claims.
I happen to know one Ferrari owner that has a Toyota also.
But that's not even the point as you stated in your logic about a "luxury" brand.
Is that serious? Let’s talk about streaming music. Let’s talk about how the app industry was basically nothing when it relied on carriers putting them on. Let’s talk about anything that plugs into smartphones to make them more useful. Hell, look at huge companies like Anker.
Oh man, seriously?!?!!! Don't say stuff like that when I'm drinking milk!
For me, when I use Siri, it does what I ask. I don't need or want a "personal digital assistant". But at times it's great when you can talk "Hey Siri" and get it to do something without your hands. Have an echo dot that was given as a present, it sits in a corner, unplugged and unused. But to each their own on digital assistants.
I've been using apple maps for a few years, and to me it's better than google maps. I much prefer the apple maps POI interface and search functions. YMMV.
Yes and no to this. Subjective depending on the use case.
Apple tends to catch up. Think Apple Pay that I remember got all of this negative sentiment on MR. In spite of what people say, today, very few businesses (Walmart) do not take apple pay, in my little corner of the east and west coast.
Maybe, maybe not.
Every famous company that has changed the world in some fashion that has been around for any length of time has to live off of someone else's foundation. As far as Apple, nobody knows where Apple will be in 10 years. Nobody knows where any large conglomerate will be in 10 years (or even anything or anyone).
It's not so much he cared as much as they were thread bare at that point having fired lot of people in the late 90s. Look at this graph for the people Apple had in 2004
https://www.statista.com/statistics/273439/number-of-employees-of-apple-since-2005/
Apple made lower cost iPhones - the SE and 5C. They just didn't sell well. We showed Apple with our buying that we wanted the expensive phones. There's plenty to desire in Apple's current products. The AirPods offer a wireless experience like nothing else on the market. What's happening now in no way mirrors what was happening when Steve was fired.
"Sell Sell Sell Selll"
"The Hindenburg (bullhorn)"
"A computer company that does NOT sell Computers?!"
^All courtesy of Jim Cramer and MadMoney!
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Being a stand up guy has NOTHING do do with being the face of the company. More than likely they are both detrimental to one another.
Being a stand up guy:
He'd run for office to fix issues (maybe)?
He'd contribute a LOT of his money to meaning social issues across the globe just because he WANTs to.
He'd set Apple for his 2019 yearly bonus to be contributions to the Poor, Homeless, abused, to medical research earmarked to work for everyone regardless of insurance package or income
^That's being a "stand up guy" is about. It's not a catch phrase.
And if we want to talk about financial contributions to society ... look at Jeff Besos, richest ($$) guy on the planet and he closed off 2018 with over 90million contributed ..... 50 million in just one week of November 2018!
Did you see what Siri co-founder did after leaving Apple? Amazing next-gen Viv which later Samsung acquired, it was a huge leap forward in AI, this is the type of innovation and progress Siri should have received, that's the entire argument.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/09/s...viv-the-intelligent-interface-for-everything/
My point is “good enough”. It’s good enough for the limited use I give it. For some siri won’t be “good enough”. Maybe apple will enhance it so some of the masses will feel it’s a better product.
I'll agree a better person should be leading at Apple, I just don't know whom that will be (internal/external).
riding on predecessor's legacy?
^Apple Watch; had nothing to do with Steve in any way. Jobs preference classical watches. Sorry you fail here.
^closed-loop source materials ... Aluminum and most likely glass. This is Cook's prevoius supply chain expertise all over it EVEN thought somone else is reporting it at the last major event.
^ Having more women (maybe just cause of the MeeToo fear) on stage presenting. To be honest I'm liking the big contributions at the last major presentation: the lady that introduced the new Air (now SHE can present and SHOULD be the coach for ALL Apple staff going to be on-stage in the future; she's that skilled).
This shows more that Apple is a team of employees not just the executives.
Innovation:
Apple get your pride out of your but and work with ALL video card manufacturers and OEMS and get drivers updated!! Apple VR/AR cannot happen on teh desktop with native OSX/macOS support. We the end user should NOT be using Windows to use 100% of an eGPU sold by Apple!!
Give us a much more powerful and complete iOS for iPad!
^in fact give us the same for iOS iPhone.
- I want to read an article in Safari without having to wait 5 seconds for a model alert front and center on my iPhone from completing another task and jumping to Safari.
- I want iOS to NOT update a fuly loaded page on Macrumors when I do NOT have a WiFi internet connection in the subway. And NO background process being turned off for Safari does NOT RESOLVE this!!
There are SOO MANY punk like things going on in iOS you'd wonder if people from the same company actually worked on it for 12yrs!
And Apple customers have never been so pissed off and ripped off.
Funny enough their "bloated" (which is anything but) MS Office suite gained from their online server and hosting business MS Office Online or Office 365. It's a MUCH better suite of products than has ever!!
Windows ALSO still brings in the most money.
Microsoft failures:
late to software as a service to the market - they're winning at this now!
Windows Vista/8
Windows Zune
Microsoft's purchase of Nokia ... assinine! Completely Assinine!
Every “industry” you listed existed prior to the iPhone in some shape or form and for other tools. The iPhone did not spawn their invention. Some were even more lucrative prior to their smartphone purpose.
Streaming music? That’s music distribution and radio repackaged. Apps? Software is nothing new. Accessories? I assume you meant standalone products that interface with a smartphone, rather than accoutrements. Again, existing tools using the phone as an accessory.
they are not falling apart but their quality of the software/hardware is certainly taking a hit. All you have to do is browse the forums.
What content are you going to create without services attached to the software therein?
Service as code:
AirDrop (sharing or receiving)
iCloud Drive (online secure storage; accessible between all your Apple devices)
iCloud Services - W1 chip in AirPods, BeatsSolo3 or BeatsStudio3 for rapid paring 1x and use many Apple devices.
Apple iOS Lookup (this goes to the built in dictionary and is accessible over 90% of iOS devices screens (native or 3rd party)
Services:
Apple Trailers
Apple U (if you haven't tried this you better start training your brain to learn a LOT more)
Apple Books
Apple iTunes (Music, Movies, TV Shows) we'll see a LOT more of the latter becoming available.
^ case in point about this. How many TV's do you think Disney creates and distributes? Over 20!
Apple iCloud (we may soon see this as an online TimeMachine backup)!
Apple iMessage ... yes it's just THAT kind of wonderful!
Apple Files
- Sure we had Box, Dropbox, MegaNZ, and Sugarsync ... yet NONE of those offered a great UI and capability to move content from your iPhone/iPad to their servers and THEN be able to copy from one service to another!!
There is a LOT more out there to do what you want, very few are that seemless and painless with implementation. Yet you still think you do not want services by Apple? really? I want what you want from Apple too in terms of hardware but I do want services that are well thoughtout and seemlessly implemented with proper support.