What do computer years have to do with Apple? It's not a computer company anymore, and the brainless twit of a CEO is wandering around the hallways of the spaceship muttering "Duh, what's a computer?"
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What do computer years have to do with Apple? It's not a computer company anymore, and the brainless twit of a CEO is wandering around the hallways of the spaceship muttering "Duh, what's a computer?"
You also forget Apple quickly slashed prices not long after release, and gave early buyers store credit.
If you seriously think the most successful CEO in the world who increased the size and sales of Apple by many times is a “brainless twit” you may want to rethink your outlook on life.
If you think selling out a company for short term profit make a successful CEO, go read about John Sculley. He made Apple the most profitable company in Silicon Valley and he was the most highly paid CEO in America during his tenure at Apple. And his practices destroyed the company. Tim Crook is the spiritual reincarnation of him. He is using the exact same tactics Sculley did with the exact same result. And the market is already turning on Apple just as it did during the Sculley years you see it as so much more hostility here that you're complaining about. It is history repeating itself.
And then again, this is a forum about Apple products by and for people who like them. Why do you think a laser focus on profits means anything at all? I've said this to you before, but if all you care about are profits and have no passion for the product, go find a forum worshiping a bank or energy company. You'll be a lot happier there.
“short term profit?’ The guy has been running the company since 2009.
As for the rest, you called the guy an idiot. He’s clearly not.
Few of the Apple-hate crowd understand that Apple uses the higher margin SKUs (of which they sell relatively few) to subsidize the entry level models in a given product line, giving them the margin they need on a weighted-average basis across all SKUs.
But how could they possibly be expected to wrap their head around this concept? They’re already convinced the entry level model is “overpriced” so their eyes just spin if you try to explain this pricing technique.
Do they really, though? Or do we just see everyone under the sun talking about issues because we're members of an Apple products website? In my home office, I have 4 iPhones, 4 iPads, an iMac, two MacBook Pros, two Mac Minis, two MacBook Airs, an Airport Extreme, and I'm sure I'm missing something else, but whatevs. I literally can't remember the last time I've had a hardware issue. But yeah, I'm sure that a bunch of people here and there have a one-off issue and they come here to talk about it or ask for advice. I don't think this website is an accurate portrayal of Apple's reliability.
I called him a brainless twit who has no idea what a computer is or what tech products have to do with Apple. As a fan of Apple products who could not care less how much profit Apple makes off each sale, I stand by my comment. He clearly is an idiot.
Rather than talk about Apple products he wants to rant against hate speech. While Apple is a platform that made promoters of hate speech like Dre into billionaires. Again, he clearly is an idiot.
Their brains would explode if they saw how Tesla charges for battery increments. (Especially given that all the cars have the biggest battery, and they just don’t enable it all unless you pay).
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I guess you’d know that sort of thing. Thanks for educating the rest of us.
Yes, of course, but the fact remains that there were lines of people camping out in front of stores for days before it was released, and they were all willing to pay $699.
I was thinking about this independently earlier.
During the steve jobs era, tech companies did not deal in politics. Steve was “positionless” on many issues and didnt let apple get roped into much. Gates was retired and becoming an activist, woz was always a free thinker, but the industry was about the race to make better products.
Once Steve died, Cook and friends all of a sudden turned silicon valley into the world political power brokers. Now its a race to see who can control more people, more speech, more content, more private data.
It always seemed fishy to be that steve died of a disease most people who can afford treatment survive...
Oh, goody. This again.
Though with a conspiracy theory twist? Nice.
p.s.: Steve didn’t seek treatment at first. He probably died needlessly because he believed a crackpot diet could cure him and waited until it was too late to die of the one form of pancreatic cancer that can actually often be successfully treated.
Have there been a lot of apps making real good use out of the Touchbar now that it is two years old?So you folks want Apple to “innovate” and include the latest technology in your iPad Minis, but give you older function key technology in your MacBook Pros. Got it....
Personally I think the best deal is the iPhone 7 at $449. With an A10/2GB it’s got lots of life left, and the camera is excellent.
Just don’t pretend it’s something Tim Cook brought to the table.
The lack of innovation to justify the price increases is what Tim Cook brought to the table.
Not sure what you are counting as premium? The $2000 folding phones from Korea and China? If that’s what your complaint is about, then go buy them and leave the rest of Apple-using folks alone.
Not to sure how they are behind. Do you mean in hardware? Because in software their OSes are still ahead of everyone.
Exactly, there has ALWAYS been an Apple Tax. Not sure what bunker all these folks have been in all these years.
Sure. Let’s pretend someone didn’t post exactly the same thing on this website back in the days when everyone on here was bitching about Steve Jobs just releasing new iPod colors instead of innovating.
Falling on deaf ears.
In high school I could afford an iPod, which led me and every other college kid to get a Mac, then an iPhone.
Your high schooler can’t afford the halo product, which in turn sells the eco system.
In high school I could afford an iPod, which led me and every other college kid to get a Mac, then an iPhone.
Your high schooler can’t afford the halo product, which in turn sells the eco system.
For historical reference, the Apple Smart Keyboard Folio basically combines the Apple Smart Keyboard and the Apple Silicone Case, which I bought from Apple at a combined cost of ($169 + $79) $248USD. If you look at it that way, the $199 cost is not that bad.
The downside of the new Folio, however, is the lack of edge protection on the iPad Pro, so it’s not all hot dogs and Skittles from a true drop protection perspective.
The rise in the price of the Apple Pencil from $99 to $129 irritates me way more than the Smart Keyboard folio price hike.
Lastly, who thought it was a good idea to release a Pencil whose ONLY source of charging capability was the iPad Pro itself and without an alternate wireless charging mechanism? The lack of AirPower being a shipping product is really disappointing.
This also illustrates a form over function issue as Apple solved two issues (lost Pencil/dead Pencil), but created two new problems (limited charging option/limited case protection to preserve the limited charging option. The latter outweighs the former in my mind in terms of a bad design decision.
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I’m surprised you find the pencil charging a problem. It’s always attached to my iPad so it’s always charged - i like this much better than the old pencil (which had lots of charging options and yet, for me, was always discharged).
Now, the stupid tap thing, on the other hand (I can’t do the tap thing. It’s like trying to use chopsticks with my non-dominant hand - my fingers just don’t go that way, and whenever i try to do it the pencil falls out of my hand),.