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Apple CEO Tim Cook Teases 'Great Innovation' in Product Pipeline on CNBC's Mad Money
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Clock speed isn't everything.
CPUs are a lot more efficient and can do a lot more today with lower clocks than 5 years ago.
Continuity/Handoff is hardly innovations and it hardly working. Hand off is annoying when all your Apple devices start ringing when phone call comes in.
You seriously call 4 way speaker innovation? You call Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard innovation? Microsoft did that long times ago. It is merely overpriced stylus and keyboard accessories.
ATV is far from innovation, so is Mac Pro. Research kit, Carekit etc, other companies to that as well and far before Apple started those things.
So yeah. Not lot of innovation. I can call 3D Touch, Swift and Truetine display innovations. Other stuff are hardly innovations
Please, it needs an iPhone to function. It's nothing more than a glorified and overpriced accessory.
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What are we fighting about? I simply said that Apple is in it for the long haul.
By the way, TC is a yuuuge part of why you're making money on AAPL stock. Love me some Steve Jobs but TC is not running the company to the ground. Apple Computers has used his brain since 1998 to drive up it's stock and build amazing products and profits and fund the supply chain that Apple is leveraging today.
Apple was at $132.79 in October 2015 because of many factors and circumstances, including:
- a different economy one year ago
- rumored new macbook line
- months away from new iPhone 6s, which people were hoping would mirror the same growth jump as iPhone 6 when Apple went to larger screens for the first time
- bunch of hype from investors (eg. Carl Icahn)
- bunch of rumors about Apple car
- This was right after Apple released Apple Watch
- Samsung, HTC, et. al. competition are driving perceived market value down. (can Apple dominate much longer?)
- Not much phone sale growth happening in western world
- Not much happening in terms of new products (just updates)
- A lot of speculation, hence why Tim Cook took any time at all to be on CNBC's Mad Money of all shows.
- Where is the Apple car?
- People sell stock, others follow. It's like schools of fish. There are ebbs and flows based on herd mentality and cause-effect chains.
FYI I'm not a trader. I'm basically making all this up and I'm making 20,000% more sense than you because you contribute like 4 sentences to the conversation—and I don't even know why you're sour with me. I don't own Apple stock. I'm not defending Tim Cooks honor but I find it odd that people are attacking it. Why? Based on stock sliding? Look at market cap? https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/market_cap
Steve Jobs left it at $300 B. It's been as high as $700 under cook. Its now at $512 B and it's going to go up. You just don't believe it will because you're behind the future, when they release new products, and reap cashflow from services.
Your stock is double what it was when Jobs left, even after the slide. If you hang in there, you'll get richer and richer. If you think TC is bad, sell your stock now. I think that would please a lot of people who are waiting for it to drop even further before WWDC and Sept's iPhone 7.
If I had to guess, things will really pick up in 2017. Again... long term. Hang in there. Good luck.
apple has literally created the most accurate stylus this side of wacom but you know not innovative
"How could I have ever thought about not wearing this watch?"
Cause it's ugly and doesn't do anything I need other than telling the time.
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Cause it's ugly and doesn't do anything I need other than telling the time.
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Both the old and new Mac Pros have really nice designs. They keep cool and quiet, unlike other workstations. If you build your own PC, even just with pleb gaming parts, it sounds like a lawnmower no matter what you do.
Tim's lack of understand between the simple concepts of time marching forward and innovation is absolutely staggering.
Putting the latest technological commodities into already existing products cannot be regarded as innovation, it's just the expected, natural flow of things and a necessity to stay competitive. 8-bit becomes 16-bit, 16 becomes 32, 32 to 64, 64 to 128, and so on. This is an inherent property, it's not anything he or Apple is inventing. A larger screen, faster processing chip, higher res camera, again, this is just simple progress, not innovation.
He needs to stop using that word, period. He should also start giving a sh*t about the other 10s or 100s of millions people that don't sit on Apple's Board. The people paying much more for hardware made unusable because of his lack of oversight, caring, and decency to control the quality of software he's putting out.
Putting the latest technological commodities into already existing products cannot be regarded as innovation, it's just the expected, natural flow of things and a necessity to stay competitive. 8-bit becomes 16-bit, 16 becomes 32, 32 to 64, 64 to 128, and so on. This is an inherent property, it's not anything he or Apple is inventing. A larger screen, faster processing chip, higher res camera, again, this is just simple progress, not innovation.
He needs to stop using that word, period. He should also start giving a sh*t about the other 10s or 100s of millions people that don't sit on Apple's Board. The people paying much more for hardware made unusable because of his lack of oversight, caring, and decency to control the quality of software he's putting out.
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You say you want him to deliver. What do you want him to deliver? You said he hadn't done anything but small iterative updates to products which is why I brought up the Apple Watch which was entirely new. He says the iPad is the most innovative. It it might not have all of what you want in it but it is the best iPad Apple has made and I believe it is the best tablet available bar none. There isn't a single laptop or desktop on the market that interests me in the slightest and I look often because I will be updating my MacBook to a new desktop sometime soon.
I don't think Apple is perfect and Cook isn't the worlds greatest CEO but I think people on here are being overly reactive to the fact that Apple couldn't keep the best growth streak in the history of business alive forever. I don't see any other company leaving Apple in the dust. I don't see any products that I look at and think man I wish my Apple stuff could do that. Sure I look forward to newer and better things, I guess I just don't have high enough expectations that I feel let down by Apple right now (except the Mac desktop line which I find extremely underwhelming other than the iMac display).
Edit: hardware talk here. Apple software needs a kick in the ass and is behind its competitors in many ways.
I believe Tim Cook is doing a commendable job under very challenging circumstances. Taking over for a deceased God, in the eyes of the faithful, is a monstrous task.
The Watch is Apple's first forray into the _existing_ Smartwatch category.
So while AW is a new Apple product, it's relatively late entry into an active segment of wearables, reveal it's Cupertino reacting, not innovating. A very important distinction.
That it works out for you is nice, but those who share your satisfaction with Apple Watch are too few and far between. All gathered here in this forum, gives off a misleading impression.
AW is a small niche market product that will only live as long as Apple provides life support.
to be fair, ipod was a relatively late entry into the mp3 market. iphone was a relatively late entry into the "smart phone" aka blackberry segment. ipad is just a bigger iphone. the world is ending, apple is bankrupt by this time next year.
Apple didn't sell a watch. Now they do. It's a new product. I didn't say it's the greatest thing ever made. I didn't say it's the next iPhone. I said it's a new product category and it absolutely is.
The iPhone was not the first smartphone, the iPad wasn't the first tablet... They had existed for over a decade. Apple was never first. The Apple Watch probably won't ever be considered the best smart watch by the majority of tech pundits in the way the iPhone or iPad are but everyone I know who has one love them. It will continue to get better and in ten years it will be commonplace to see people wearing them. It's a profitable business so "life support" is a bit of a stretch.
Two or three years ago, I would have believed what Cook said about products in the pipeline. Now, I don't....
This is all because of products he had absolutley NOTHING to do with. NOTHING. The man responsible for ALL of Apple's current success died and Tim became his succsessor. That's as far as his involvement goes. This is like a child inheriting a fortune from his or her parents and then constantly being congratulated and revered for all of his or her success. He is milking someone else's innovations to death.
He's shortsightedly brushing aside all other aspects of his company to milk every molecule out of a one or two products. This is not a good CEO. Apple's unprecedented growth and wealth was coming whether Tim Cook was next in line or Tim Allen, it wouldn't have mattered. My cat could have been named CEO, the iPhone was already out and unstoppable regardless of who was named CEO. All he's done, as far as I'm concerned, is turn a company that had passion and concern into a factory for novelty gadgets.
Yeah, people need to get a life instead of expecting technology to fill the hole in their souls.
I would REALLY like to see a legit, authentic colored rose gold iPhone. I think it would be cool, if they're going for the luxury brand thing to actually, have a line of phones that are durably plated with real precious metals for a few hundred bucks more. Yellow/rose gold and platinum. Would be very awesome to have some legit OEM bling
a solid gold iPhone would be going way too far...and I'm almost of the same opinion in regards to the solid gold Apple Watch....but having quality plated finishes would be a great upsell !!
He can't because there isn't anything to show.
Fighting can mean an act of conflict. Once you become rigid with language it loses it's beauty. Use language as a bridge to connect us, not a wall or moat to increase our distance.
Barely and I don't think in plural. I learned nothing from your post. Facts would have been educational.
I say the same to you. If Cook is so bad, back up your insults with funds and sell all your Apple stock. Come back after you sell AAPL.
