Lol. The Mac is a premium product with a premium price. There are no premium cars that do not offer air conditioning standard. That is the point you do not get. It is a premium price point with substandard components. But is ok because everything is "magical".
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Health Industry is 'Ripe for Simplicity and a New View'
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It wouldn't be Macrumors if Tim said something about "...not doing it for the money." and nobody mentioned anything about 16 GB this or 5400 rpm that.
"Don't get full of yourself. Don't smoke your own exhaust. Don't worry about cannibalizing yourself," he said. "I think being hungry -- not being driven by money, but being driven by some higher purpose and building great products -- is really key. Never do something strictly for money. Do it for love, do it for passion."
What a colossal hypocrite! He is a member of the most astonishingly self-serving bunch of overpaid egotists on the planet. Give away all your cash and stock options then and get by on $100k a year then Tim. Only the rich can afford to spout such excrement.
What a colossal hypocrite! He is a member of the most astonishingly self-serving bunch of overpaid egotists on the planet. Give away all your cash and stock options then and get by on $100k a year then Tim. Only the rich can afford to spout such excrement.
The only thing Apple wants to do is make everything, including people, thinner.
Diabetes
I do not understand why Apple still does not offer its own hardware for diabetics. They have the money to calm the FDA preventer guys, to buy patents, and to set up easy-to-handle hardware. Today, there are various insulin pumps and cgm systems available, but looking on simplicity, they all are LPs instead of MP3s. Diabetes is a huge, determinable, defeatable, prospective and permanent market. Automobile market is so much harder to enter.
So, I personally am still dreaming of an Apple-Watch that monitors Blood Glucose and controlles an Apple Insulin pump. Then... I will buy my first Apple Watch. Promised.
I do not understand why Apple still does not offer its own hardware for diabetics. They have the money to calm the FDA preventer guys, to buy patents, and to set up easy-to-handle hardware. Today, there are various insulin pumps and cgm systems available, but looking on simplicity, they all are LPs instead of MP3s. Diabetes is a huge, determinable, defeatable, prospective and permanent market. Automobile market is so much harder to enter.
So, I personally am still dreaming of an Apple-Watch that monitors Blood Glucose and controlles an Apple Insulin pump. Then... I will buy my first Apple Watch. Promised.
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I hope he finally realized something and Apple Watch will turn into a really useful health tracking product.
Apple is completely about the money!! Apple is all about bringing you into there ecosystem and to their App store, and making you use proprietary hardware and docks!
Why do you think Apple watch only connects to iOS? Do you really think they care about people's health? well they do if you have an iphone i guess...
Tim is soo full of him self while Apple is tanking. I do think wearables will have a health revolution, I hope Google and others innovate and get it done!
Tim said in the past FDA approving is too cumbersome and he doesn't want to deal with that. Maybe he changed his mind finally.
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Yes, absolutely.
The more a company says it's not about the money, the more you know it's a lie.
The fact they need to mention it says enough.
Just say what you are doing and why you think it's magical.
Otherwise give us 20 GB of iCloud storage for free, please. Enough for the regular backups.
The fact they need to mention it says enough.
Just say what you are doing and why you think it's magical.
Otherwise give us 20 GB of iCloud storage for free, please. Enough for the regular backups.
While passion should trump over money, I think it's a bit rich of Tim to say this.
I would have preferred if he added something about being profitable, good margins and rewarding yourself. At least he wouldn't come off sounding like such a hypocrite.
"Ripe"?
Considering he's talking down to people as if they're toddlers with "magical" and other nonsense... he can can the act and find a new song and dance. Especially as healthcare costs are already through the roof, using a company with huge profit margins and higher costs than competition sure as heck isn't going to help anyone. Except his wallet.
Government doesn't have much money. Maybe Apple will offer a YUGE discount? I mean, with Apple's walled gardens it can do what any drug dealer does - offer free samples, lock 'em in, then jack up the prices so they effectively can't leave. Simple.
Government should use true open source instead of relying on these companies to spoonfeed, especially as these companies exist to profit first while selling an image of anything else.
Considering he's talking down to people as if they're toddlers with "magical" and other nonsense... he can can the act and find a new song and dance. Especially as healthcare costs are already through the roof, using a company with huge profit margins and higher costs than competition sure as heck isn't going to help anyone. Except his wallet.
Government doesn't have much money. Maybe Apple will offer a YUGE discount? I mean, with Apple's walled gardens it can do what any drug dealer does - offer free samples, lock 'em in, then jack up the prices so they effectively can't leave. Simple.
Government should use true open source instead of relying on these companies to spoonfeed, especially as these companies exist to profit first while selling an image of anything else.
I hope so! They're on Wall Street, and they don't fill 501c3 forms for a reason.
True. Once you buy an apple product you get electrocuted even at the idea of switching back to Win/Linux/Android/BeOS. You are FORCED into this madness, and you can't get out!
Thankfully they're the only company like that. My bank cares about me. Microsoft cares about me. And google? yes, they do care about me. I love 'em all, except greedy apple.
"Don't smoke your own exhaust"
LOL -- but from what I've seen coming out of Cupertino lately it's OK for the design staff to smoke rope.
Well, capitalism did sell the rope to the communists...
Yes, thank you. I do remember and I feel with him (FDA just declares to care for people, in real they slow down any innovation). Nobody likes to colaborate with mafia-like organisations, but... At least, I hope, Tim will use his capabilities to get things running.
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A for-profit company is about profit, money, first and foremost. It will do as little as necessary to get the biggest amount of money as a result. That's the purest definition, and the college professor who taught us that that was by no means a commie liberal. Though he might have been ironic, given the college's policies but I went above and beyond when I was allowed to anyway...
Wearables existed long before Apple got into the gimmick and are a fad after a certain point, and who needs a Polar Loop to count a pulse when one can use their fingers over the wrist, learn how to add, learn how to look at a clock, and how to multiply by x depending on how long they count the number of thumps. A $50 toy isn't worth it and one can rely on their own biological processes, how they feel, as to when it's time to cool off, go faster, or stop. Over-reliance on gizmos is simply stupid, as people will discover like how they could have even 10 years ago. There are so many obvious ways but we live in an economy that tries to be separate from nature, so it's no wonder they don't want to-- nevermind.
Having said that, the iPhone build quality is pretty darn good (better than the Samsung S7 Edge in crash tests and by a decent margin) and I'm sure the watch is of good build quality as well. And iTunes' AAC format beats the snot out of a comparable MP3 (256kbps). As much as I gripe about build quality in some of Apple's other products, I refuse to be one-sided.
Tim took good lessons from mentor and friend Jobs, though I suspect Jobs knew things would have gone downhill regardless. Though unlike Jobs he's done a lot better with recalls and extended plans, even if one of them was more of a quick and dirty workaround than a proper fix.But by now even I would be close to replacing that model of machine fully, but for a $2500 laptop I'd expect 5 or 6 years without a single hiccup. Most customers would.
Pretty sure he is talking to everyone bashing him for not being Steve Jobs on that one.
Carrow's restaurants, founded by David Nancarrow (who also founded Coco's and other enterprises). That is who I heard speak, not long before he died, after which the company was sold to corporate types who proceeded to run it into the ground.