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Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls AirPods 'A Runaway Success,' Says 'It's Been a Great Holiday'
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Actually yes, while MR members posting negative things usually don't have any facts at all.
I have no idea what the exposure from the air pods is, but I don't ever put the phone next to my head.
I used the corded headphones and when possible plug the phone into a speaker.
Putting a radio right next to your brain box is not wise.
Well it was a tongue in cheek comment, the story directly below this was how air pods were having battery issues. I don't own air pods. I do own several other products, so my negative comments are more disappointments than unfair blasting.
I guess its their call..
meanwhile, I'll keep buying the old macs until I can't!
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Um cause it don't look stylish
Really?
guess you answered your own question!
Nope. In fact, as one poster here already shared, Cook relies a lot more on classic salesman emotive pitches and is short on specifics compared to the Steve Jobs apple:
https://www.techinasia.com/apple-language
You buy into the bs though. Good for you.
I answered my own question? What are you on about?I guess its their call..
meanwhile, I'll keep buying the old macs until I can't!
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Um cause it don't look stylish
Really?
guess you answered your own question!
and NEVER sit between another phone user and the cell tower, that'll keep him busy running around!
The signals for most wireless devices aren't directional. They emit in all directions. A cell tower doesn't send communications like a cable through space - the signal going to your phone is also going to your dog house and the heavily forested area five miles down the road. Doesn't matter if your phone is connected to it for voice or just pinging it sporadically or totally off.
Furthermore, if you're worried about the microwave radiation from cell phones you should stay inside with the lights off somewhere hundreds of miles from any cell towers. Lightbulbs emit microwave radiation. The sun does too, and at *actually dangerous* strengths.
Microwave ovens, operating at approximately 5,000 TIMES the strength of your cell phone's microwave radiation, are still unable to damage DNA. Sure, it might create a ton of heat and the heat could damage the DNA, but the microwaves themselves would not.
I'm pretty sure I read an article about how the headphone wires take that phone signal and focus it straight through your brain more than you'd get just putting the phone to your ear.
Yep. He's busy with reality, not the online fantasy land echo chamber fraudulent nonsense.
can't really disagree... but at the same time, I'm sure that Cook (and every other CEO) measure their statements to the press. If the press interviewed him for a half hour, the press will pick out the most controversial comment, twist it around and sensationalize it for click-bait in big headlines.
Eg:
Tim: (After 30 minutes of interview and dialog) ... "things sold out but, admittedly, we could have did a better job with the Airpod rollout, I'm hearing some complaints from vocal customers that couldn't put them under the tree for Christmas"
Press: "Cook: Apple disappointed customers for holidays"
Business Press: "Apple CEO admits slow shipments will affect Q1 forecast"
Sports Press: "Apple continues to fumble again with poor execution"
Chinese Press: "Apple concerns with itself with only western holidays, and ignores China's lunar New Year"
...etc, I'm sure you can make more up.
I think Tim is reaching for any success he can get.
That being said, I think Apple did a good job with the Airpods. They are expensive, and it would have been good if they had something for those of use who are active with headphones and can fall out, but other than that they didn't do a bad job. Issues like they are facing are bound to come up first generation.
BUT as I have mentioned this on another thread, I can't believe you can't charge these airpods off a new Macbook PRO! A PRO machine! You need a dongle! Another dongle to add to your collection!
That my friends, is the epitome of greed. Either it's excessive greed or fetish a for dongles, or he is just a bad leader who can't get his products in Apple's ecosystem to be linear. I think it's all of the above.
That being said, I think Apple did a good job with the Airpods. They are expensive, and it would have been good if they had something for those of use who are active with headphones and can fall out, but other than that they didn't do a bad job. Issues like they are facing are bound to come up first generation.
BUT as I have mentioned this on another thread, I can't believe you can't charge these airpods off a new Macbook PRO! A PRO machine! You need a dongle! Another dongle to add to your collection!
That my friends, is the epitome of greed. Either it's excessive greed or fetish a for dongles, or he is just a bad leader who can't get his products in Apple's ecosystem to be linear. I think it's all of the above.
I instantly thought Cook meant underwhelming when he said "great".
Should have been "incredible" at least.
Incredible is Apple's "very good".
Exactly. At our company they love to over use the word "I'm Excited" on every PR memo, every new management change, or internal quarter earnings update. I am so sick of those words. Tim's are no different. It's so fake and everybody sees through it.
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There is little to no evidence that there is a negative effect on your brain from cell phone use. While I agree this is far from conclusive, I would advocate that any negative effect would be so small (assuming average phone use) that it is negligible in comparison to other day to day risks that we expose ourselves to, including the act of driving down the street. Then there are all sorts of issues with the chemicals in our containers, antibiotics in our meats, pesticides in our vegetables... There are many risk factors that it's a) impossible to eliminate them all and b) can drive ourselves crazy trying to.
That being said, I would likely take some sort of precaution myself if I were to use a phone to an extreme amount (10+ hours daily), but considering how little I use it, it's not worth the worry.
huh? it's not microwaves. You're already exposed to RF signals all around you in your everyday life. I don't see how this is different. It's a heck of a lot safer than putting your cell phone right up to your ear.
Well in all fairness, what's he gonna say, "it's been a GD nightmare... we're disguising low sales as high demand with evidence of stock-outs because these things are too GD hard to make and we can't keep them on the shelves?"
PR speak is one thing, but we'll see just how well the quarter went at the next call. If he keeps AirPod sales buried in the "accessories" category along with the Apple Watch and Beats headphones without specifically calling out numbers, we'll know exactly how well they did.
[doublepost=1482961026][/doublepost]Just want to point out too in case anyone missed it, Best Buy has the 13" 256GB Non-TB 2016 MB on sale for $1,349 right now, or $1,241 if you go with the certified open box. That's a good deal considering it's going for what Apple should have priced the thing at to begin with.
PR speak is one thing, but we'll see just how well the quarter went at the next call. If he keeps AirPod sales buried in the "accessories" category along with the Apple Watch and Beats headphones without specifically calling out numbers, we'll know exactly how well they did.
[doublepost=1482961026][/doublepost]Just want to point out too in case anyone missed it, Best Buy has the 13" 256GB Non-TB 2016 MB on sale for $1,349 right now, or $1,241 if you go with the certified open box. That's a good deal considering it's going for what Apple should have priced the thing at to begin with.
And that's exactly where they belong, and will stay, in the accessory category. They're just wireless earphones after all.
"PR speak is one thing, but we'll see just how well the quarter went at the next call."
I'd say it's looking pretty good. Last September when Apple released their Q4 2016 report, revenue for the quarter was stated at $46.9 billion. What's interesting though, along with that report, Apple provided revenue guidance for the following Q1 2017 quarter of between $76 billion and $78 billion, a huge increase. Apple has always been very conservative on guidance so I suspect it will be somewhere around there.
Guess that can be attributed to holding back supply of Apple products to stimulate demand, right?
So you're saying that Cook shouldn't miss the opportunity to be disingenuously positive about their latest product? Maybe I'm just not quite that cynical yet. I expect him to be truthful if AirPod numbers are great and to mention some other good thing if they're not.