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Apple CEO Tim Cook Teases 'Great Innovation' in Product Pipeline on CNBC's Mad Money
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Inovation is not taking others ideas and using them yourself in my opinion. It may be clever implementation but NOT innovation. Apple hasn't done anything for any market for some time.
Firstly, please remember there is a world outside America, smartphones have existed for years before Apple showed up and many people had them.
iPhone SE was a response to it's customers demanding a smaller iPhone and not buying the new bigger models, thus affecting sales.
Apple watch has not hit it's sales targets though, and no it will not be a success, they have to persuade multiple generations that spending a lot of money to wear a watch, (after they stopped wearing one due to their smartphone in their pocket), that copies your phone is actually very good, the smartphone already had high market penetration so people adopted that far more easily, and you need an iPhone to use an Apple Watch. People won't update their Apple watches as often as their phones either, a watch has traditionally been jewllery, hell Apple acknowledges this with it's luxury materials and ridiculously inflated prices of the Edition range, and that mindset does not update jewellery every year.
Many would consider Samsung to have long overtaken Apple at ALL levels, and even people on here that were long term Apple fans have switched.
Apple has already built it's gardens, so not sure how they will go further with these?
Perhaps you failed to notice Apple did not mention their Watch sales in their quarterly results? It was mixed in with 'others' somewhere.
It's main drive is the iPhone, plain and simple, it lost huge sales on the iPhone, a thinner model with the same design, lack of headphone port, and a new top model with a better camera is hardly going to improve that. So that could be 2 years of dropping iPhones sales, that will lose investors.
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Let's not interview this guy anymore. There is no innovation in his answer.
Boy, I sure do hope that we get more innovation like a pencil or watch.
- You're an investor?
- And you don't want your investments to grow?
- What do you want?
- I didn't buy one either.
- I wasn't defending the functionality of the watch today.
- The first Apple Watch is more successful than the first Apple iPhone.
- Steve Balmer said the first Apple iPhone was a joke, too, and he was the CEO and co-founder of Microsoft.
- I didn't buy the first iPod, first iPhone, first MacBook, first Mac, first Apple anything. But just because I make conservative buying choices doesn't mean Apple isn't leveraging early adopters and growing the product category into a serious revenue stream.
If by innovation we mean a new product category, we aren't going to see that soon. Apple Watch, for better or worse, was the new major product category release for the decade. We might see something else brand new shortly before 2020, but I am not holding my breath. They just don't release major new products that often.
Even though I don't own an Apple Watch, it is still an intriguing device whose potential I can easily tell has yet to be fully realized. The ability to put convenient sensors and measure health alone is fabulous.
The kind of innovation we should expect is smaller-scale. Under Tim we've come to rely on Touch ID, 3D Touch (for those of you who have sprung for the 6S), integrated services, the Apple Pencil, TrueTone, etc.
Just remember: the default state of an Apple fan is waiting.
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We are mourning not gloating.
LOL this is total PR move to try and stop/slow the bleeding. Tim and Apple CORP are in panic mode.
This. Although apple has other devices to depend on...but iphone is their main flagship thing...which is devastating...and narrow sighted.
Quality software, quality hardware. Those are keys and the bugginess of the software is the main issue in my option. (Plus on the Pro side of the hardware a lack of good products).
Funny thing, take Tim's salary of $10.2 million for 2015 and divide by total iphones sold in 2015 (230.7 million) and Tim is literally getting a nickle for every iPhone sold.
TouchID is been out for awhile. Is he referring to 3D Touch? Yes Tim, that 3D Touch really changed my life it's so good that I don't even know it's there most of the time. 
And the Photos on OSX that one is good that it replaces the Aperture.
And the Photos on OSX that one is good that it replaces the Aperture.
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All your eggs in one basket, and those eggs are currently falling out of the basket at a fast rate. Not a brilliant business plan for long term investment when your chosen market is extremely cut throat, IMO.
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Even if he's good at his job, it's not the same job Steve Jobs was doing. Tim Cook is still acting as the COO, which he seems to be good at. Apple has an unfilled role.
AAPL has *grown* to $93.64 today from $132.79 5/22/2015.
I bought the shares when Amelio was CEO so I ain't no day trader.
I love it when the people who just bought an iPhone on time explain the market in an attempt to defend TC's honor.
The lack of a headphone jack in 7 just to make it water proof is pure lunacy and crazy. Another example of what Apple wants not what the customer wants. Again They will vote with their feet and sales will suffer.
My whole family has a ton of different Sennheiser headphones and audiophiles laugh at Beats. I even have a small tube amp that goes to my studio monitor headphones from the phone, pod and pad.
What the world does not need now is another adapter. It won't increase Beats sales - just hack off the customer base. I can not believe Apple engineers could not design a water proof jack.
My whole family has a ton of different Sennheiser headphones and audiophiles laugh at Beats. I even have a small tube amp that goes to my studio monitor headphones from the phone, pod and pad.
What the world does not need now is another adapter. It won't increase Beats sales - just hack off the customer base. I can not believe Apple engineers could not design a water proof jack.
Tim's channeling Dirty Dancing for his innovation ideas.....
For the last dance we always do the maruangue..... how about this year we end it with the.... pachanga!
I honestly don't give a hooties cow what the next phone has to offer.... I upgrade yearly and will continue to do so... Why? Because I can and the iPhone does what I need it to do. I pick up other phones and they feel cheap by comparison...... even the newest from X manufacturer. I'm also entrenched in the iPhone ecosystem. All the whining about antenna bands and camera bumps is ridiculous IMHO but hey, to each their own.
For the last dance we always do the maruangue..... how about this year we end it with the.... pachanga!
I honestly don't give a hooties cow what the next phone has to offer.... I upgrade yearly and will continue to do so... Why? Because I can and the iPhone does what I need it to do. I pick up other phones and they feel cheap by comparison...... even the newest from X manufacturer. I'm also entrenched in the iPhone ecosystem. All the whining about antenna bands and camera bumps is ridiculous IMHO but hey, to each their own.
No need to be offensive. How do you know what car I drive? "not a loyalist?" You've got to be kidding me. Sorry I don't drink the BMW cool-aid
First of all, traffic updates are not 4g, that's your sirius XM radio. As a loyalist you should've known that. Now it is true that you don't need an active subscription for traffic but the maps themselves are never as good as something that updates all the time. Your map app is literally static and your software is static. Your'e done, they're not adding any more functionality to it.
Next, you want local businesses? No 4g connection means you aren't searching for any new businesses, your'e stuck with what the car software has. Apple carplay has yelp now, and I trust yelp more than a built in BMW system.
Touchscreen does take your eyes off the road, and that's why SIRI is such a big help. But you know what else takes your eye off the road? responding to texts. Checking scores. Checking what music to play. Maybe switching to a podcast. What device do you use to do those things? A phone. BMW will always be a middleman representation of those things. Carplay will literally be your device. How will BMW interface reflect spotify? Apple music? Not well, they rely on your phone having those apps, additionally none of your BMW interface will help with that. Voice control, can you tell BMW to play a music on apple music? no.
On that subject, does BMW have continuously updated apps? Can you take your car into BMW and ask them to integrate MLB at Bat for example? Can you tell your car to schedule an appointment for you?
I think it's actually completely hilarious to me how much your'e defending the idrive interface system. The idrive interface will forever be the middleman between your car and your phone. Why not let Apple control that interface? I think it's sad that you don't realize car manufacturers are making a killing selling an interface to you that you'll end up just looking down on your phone for that interface instead.
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Pretty optimistic for an ******* who's ruining Apple.
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Tim (or Apple) announced the details of iPhone 7?
TC is failing as a snake oil salesman. He should enroll in Trump U and find out how it's done.
Sony have been doing waterproof headphone ports for several years, Samsung have also done it for a while now.
The same one that was in charge of Apple over more than the past 5 years while Apple continued earning more and more, being the most valued company in the world, and breaking all-time worldwide earnings records to top it off?
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