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Apple Falls From 1st to 17th Spot in 'World's Most Innovative Company' Rankings
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Anyone who is worried because some random magazine made a list is probably the sort of person who spends a lot of time calling Apple’s CEO by his first name. On this board it’s always “Jobs” and “Tim.” Interesting.
It doesn't have to be touch screen. I personally don't like touchscreen on laptops. All windows laptops have it. My work laptop has it and I have never used it. Plus Mac laptops are mainly used by hard core developers who would rather use keyboard and mouse than touchscreen. For light users iPad works fine.
Historically, apple apple has been innovative in the sense that they have always taken the existing technologies and connected the dots in such a transforming way that, the new product is like a dream come true. Apple has huge workforce. But like they always say a culture of the company is derived by the upper management. And look at apples upper management. I don't think there is another there who has a transformational thinking mind. And that reflects in the product pipeline. Everything is just an incremental change that does not make your life any better. What improvement animoji or touchbar bring to your daily life that we need to rush to buy the devices?
On top of that, product reliability has gone down the hill. From battery to keyboard.. things have been disaster. I mean keyboard?? A basic component of a laptop. Heck, a 15$ keyboard lasts forever. The cheap Windows laptop.keyboards last for 10 years. And MacBook keyboards die within a year and so.
I think Tim Cook has no eye for good products. Everybody is just running over him and all he is doing is looking at the money. If you can bring in profit, you can do anything you want to modify that product. He cares **** about it.
If Apple wants to be back on position one, they need to start making reliable.product. Then find people who can transform product design. Otherwise, apple will die a slow death.
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I like this argument. Let's point fingers at others to hide our weakness.
Yes. I am sure it keeps the board of directors up all night that on some random list using unquantifiable criteria, by some random magazine, they have fallen down. Right now there is a rapid response team preparing to overhaul the company with the sole goal of improving their position on this particular list.
And what can you do with it besides playing YouTube video and taking pictures?
Here are the companies that are innovating their assess off: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, AMD. Since Jobs' death in 2011, Apple has been coasting on innovations made under his tenure. The only new product category launched under Tim Cook was Apple Watch. That's it. The Mac has seen unprecedented stagnation under Cook's watch, to the point where one wonders if Cook has a secret loathing for the product line. Some of us don't live on mobile devices. Some of us want kickass desktop computers and laptops. Some of us don't live on Instagram and spend all day long liking other peoples' posts and sling emojis.
Some of us are grown ups here and want Apple to grow up, too.
Some of us are grown ups here and want Apple to grow up, too.
Unless you have been under a rock for past couple of weeks, you have not been reading the news about Apple. According to wall street journal, management shake up is happening. You already saw Angela was shown the door. And she was the most high profile hiring by Apple. So yeah, BOD is definitely loosing sleep over it
“Loosing?”
No, the articles on the “shake up” were about a shifting focus to services, which everyone knows was long in the works (Cook said as much a year ago on the conference call), and has absolutely nothing to do with this article. Nobody at apple gives a rat’s ass about Fast Company.
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AMD? LOL. I worked there 10 years. They are iterating (better than Intel lately) but not innovating.
I totally agree about the list placement; who cares?! That said, I don't totally agree with the comment about the Fold. With that phone they are trying to address issues which are at the heart of many threads here. There are plenty of people complaining about the size of phones nowadays. Not to mention how many devices people buy to have different options. Having a more compact design that can expand into a larger size for different purposes is a good idea. Granted it doesn't really look like this first iteration is compact enough to cater to people looking for a small phone when folded, but it is trying to have several device types in one.
This is only the first iteration, so it may not be perfect but it's the best they can do today. I think this is an innovation that is true to what customers want, it's just in its infancy so it will take time to develop properly, which is why it may not solve all the issues.
Is there a point to releasing a device like this now just to be the first? Does Samsung actually think it's practical and well-designed? Could and will Apple design it better? There are many questions that we may never have the answers to, but it is an attempt at addressing customer issues while being innovative, so I'll give them credit for that.
Oh I completely agree. But it speaks to the values of the company that they abandoned their core user base who kept them alive in the name of quick profits.
Seems like apple has become too big and too slow. They can put out amazing products, but not at the pace they use to. I also believe that sticking to a yearly cadence of release has compromised quality and innovation. Apple needs to focus on making the best product they can make and if it takes 18 months instead of 12, so be it. Having such a short development cycle for a product as complicated as a phone means they have less time to prototype new features and can't push the design envelop as much in order for the whole production chain to succeed. Simple as that.
You fail as a leader when you let the wealthiest company in the world turn into a one trick pony
When did you use the Fold?
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And for others, Apple is the only company that can innovate or produce a worthwhile product.
With the bulk of the product lineup hovering between 400 and nearly 1900 days since their last upgrade I'm not overly surprised that their innovation ranking dipped a little in the past year.
Cell phones were already an established market, yet you claim the iPhone was innovation. Which is it? Is it possible for Apple to innovate in an established market or not?