Homepod is A.I. What place is Apple in? A.I. improves immensely with user data collection. What is Apple's 'long game' on that one?
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Homepod is A.I. What place is Apple in? A.I. improves immensely with user data collection. What is Apple's 'long game' on that one?
Where did they find the audience? Sounded like a Tim Cook fan club. Clearly Kara Swischer is a fan girl because Tim Cook is openly gay and a good liberal.
Apple is obviously in a much better position relative to Facebook, but Cook still looks awful when he makes broad statements like “I wouldn’t be in this situation” because he’s speculating about hypotheticals and opening himself up to backlash if those become “famous last words” after some unknown future data breach, etc.
That said, Apple has stood up for privacy and they deserve credit for doing so. Let’s hope they don’t get into the advertising business.
That said, Apple has stood up for privacy and they deserve credit for doing so. Let’s hope they don’t get into the advertising business.
Could you give us examples of "Foxconn working their employees to death literally"? I know that kind of thing happened at Samsung factories, with tons of pollution causing cancer and literally killing the employees, but what about Foxconn?
You haven't a clue what SJ would or would not do in today's political environment so just stop with the bumper stickers. Are you ok with the Mercer's, Koch brothers, Adleson, Wynn etc mixing their corporate governance and social engineering? My guess is yes, but I could be wrong.
Tim Cook is too political and cares more about profit than the customer. As time goes on this is proven more and more.
THIS! He is unable to balance profit and customer the was SJ did.
How is it proven? If you really believe that are you still buying Apple products? To me I don’t care about the political views of the ceo I have to like the products(which I do)
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Apple is literally 2X as profitable today than when Jobs was alive and Cook was running the company in 2011 too.
Profit follows when you please your customers. Cook is doing a fantastic job with customers. They love Apple products more than ever if you look at satisfaction, loyalty, and overall unit sales.
Jobs was great, but remember, Cook was closer to Jobs than anyone and was picked by Jobs to run the company. Cook is a genius in his own ways.
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Actually, we live at a time when our government is utterly incapable of doing anything good for its citizens. Someone has to fill the vacuum, and it's corporations.
Only if you disagree
Why can't Apple do both? It's not like the two are mutually exclusive. You don't think Bill Gates was (and continues to be) political? He was Chairman of the Board until 2014, but the Gates Foundation was involved politically in many countries well before then.
Steve Jobs knew most of what he said was bullsh*t. The problem with today's Apple is it actually believes its own bullsh*t.
I think the only reason Apple is what it is today (post Steve Jobs) is because of Tim Cook's leadership. He may not be doing anything great for the company in terms of innovation, but he's isn't letting it fall apart either. Most execs would love to tear the company apart while profiting personally. Whenever there is a big pot of money, a lot of weird people show up to try and get a piece. It is not easy to keep such a company focused and executing the way Apple has been doing.
It is very important to care about profits especially in the current financial environment. If a company is less profitable that its competitors, they will be put out of business very quickly. Name one company that is still in existence that builds awesome products and that isn't at least as focused on profits.
I would not think he is focused more on profits than on the customer. If Apple didn't care about its customers, they would go elsewhere.
Then why bother watching it ?
Is Tim passing himself off as a social engineering expert ?
This is something that someone who wants to get into politics would do.
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Did you forget the /S at the end of the post
What does /S mean?
Yeah, you do need political pressure Tim because you're full of crap
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China didn't start out with so called extraordinary skills. You went there and taught them these skills instead of doing that here in the U.S, because you were able to pay them dirt cheap wages. Stop the non stop bull, Cook. We're not idiots
Nearly $1T valuation and $240B cash. Yep the CEO is clueless. He should resign. What a clueless CEO.
Being political is anti-profitable.
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What about people who dont need a front facing camera on an iPhone? Do you want them to have a different version of iPhone for them? Your point sets a precedent for creating dozens of different products to make sure every single person is satisfied no matter their combination of preferances.
Thats just not how it works.
If u dont mind sharing your info to have a smarter AI, switch to the competition. Simple really
You just proved my point. Tim Cook's political views (liberal, homosexual agenda) have nothing to do with Apple the company. The purpose of a company is solely to make a profit. Apple is not too big to fail and Tim Cook is not the president of a country.
You are complaining that you can't use a device in a way that it wasn't designed to be used in? It does certain things that are stated black on white very clearly. I brought one with me from London and I couldn't be happier with it. Siri understands me just fine and it does all the things that it says it can very well too.
