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Apple Falls From 1st to 17th Spot in 'World's Most Innovative Company' Rankings
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Is that really all you've gotten from Apple the fast few years?? Just this list? Look at the Apple Watch and EKG, AirPods (most bluetooth earbuds or headsets at its price point is crap), A-series is STILL the best mobile processor on the market and the gap widens each year, HomePods, how about their ability to actually release consistent speedy updates and how long they actually support their devices which no one STILL can match - that's not innovative? How about having the best biometric authentication method in the market and the only one secure enough for mobile payment? How about their work in recording video - iPhone is STILL the best video recording phone out there. There's plenty to appreciate from Apple.
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How about performance leading AND efficient. iPhone sips a lot less power when doing things like recording video, taking pictures, playing video games, etc. How about the fact that they actually have their own CPU and don't have to rely on a Snapdragon like 80% of the Android market. You know their CPUs have gotten to the point where people believe they could rival Intel in their laptops ... that's quite the achieve within a VERY short timespan. It used to be Android fans laughing at Apple's performance, of course starting with the first 64-bit mobile processor, those goal posts have moved and isn't even a discussion anymore. Sure I'd like to see more software to take advantage, and I think we'll see that with iOS13, apps spanning across iOS and MacOS, etc ... but you certainly don't need ANY flagship phone/mobile processor for watching YT videos lol.
A lot better than paying millions to someone after sexually assaulting employees, election tampering, or selling off your data for billions. That's innovative too, just in an "evil" way.
Or in other words, IN THE ONLY CATEGORY THEY COMPETE IN, APPLE IS STILL #1.
What a B.S. Article!
What I'm waiting to see -and I've said it before- for Apple to innovate is to put their money where their mouth is and turn the whole iOS hardware into something really usable. Some might disagree, but ditch the Mac already! Current x86 architecture is actually old, overpriced and reached a lot of its limits and makes Apple depend on third parties even more.
Go to iPads and iPhones and put the advantage of their tight integration and extremely advanced processor architecture to work. Make iOS more of a macOS... or replace that damn iOS with macOS already. Make iPads compatible with a mouse. That alone would change the way CAD works on iPads.
Examples that I can just think about from the top of my head: For 3D artists, use that FaceID scanner to acquire 3D data from objects and viceversa: load an OBJ file into your iPhone and texture it using images around you and adjust/paint them using Apple Pencil. Yes, there are some apps that do that, but in a very rudimentary way that's oriented more towards experimentation or leisure than actual work. Or instead of using all the scanner tech inside an iPhone for Animojis, load your OBJ/FBS character file and animate their facial expression, or fine limbs movements, walk cycles, etc, using the scanner/camera and then send it back to Maya/Unity/Unreal. And that's the tip of the iceberg only for 3D work. The possibilities are endless and they have the resources!... oh, but those applications are not available for iOS. Not even Final Cut Pro X or Logic/Mainstage are available for iOS. What are they waiting for?!
I'm actually disappointed that they cannot see actual use cases like the ones I mentioned. And they are not new... a lot of professionals all over the web have expressed a lot of similar advantages to making iPads and iPhones really "Pro."
That's the leap we are waiting for in my opinion, and what will propel them back to the top. Not trying to convince us that the iPad Pro is for you to take it to a meeting and write down notes on it. Actual pen and paper are way better for this and thousands of dollar cheaper. Apple was respected because their workflow was powerful enough for pros, and at the same time very intuitive and easy to learn for a kid to grab a computer and do anything on it, be creative on it... not make you addicted to social networks or IAP games.
Do it, Apple... catering actual professional work will push your R&D and creativity even further. Casual users will just reap the fruits from that.
That's the passion old Apple drove into fans. New Apple... meh. Just extremely expensive and underpowered hardware.
Go to iPads and iPhones and put the advantage of their tight integration and extremely advanced processor architecture to work. Make iOS more of a macOS... or replace that damn iOS with macOS already. Make iPads compatible with a mouse. That alone would change the way CAD works on iPads.
Examples that I can just think about from the top of my head: For 3D artists, use that FaceID scanner to acquire 3D data from objects and viceversa: load an OBJ file into your iPhone and texture it using images around you and adjust/paint them using Apple Pencil. Yes, there are some apps that do that, but in a very rudimentary way that's oriented more towards experimentation or leisure than actual work. Or instead of using all the scanner tech inside an iPhone for Animojis, load your OBJ/FBS character file and animate their facial expression, or fine limbs movements, walk cycles, etc, using the scanner/camera and then send it back to Maya/Unity/Unreal. And that's the tip of the iceberg only for 3D work. The possibilities are endless and they have the resources!... oh, but those applications are not available for iOS. Not even Final Cut Pro X or Logic/Mainstage are available for iOS. What are they waiting for?!
I'm actually disappointed that they cannot see actual use cases like the ones I mentioned. And they are not new... a lot of professionals all over the web have expressed a lot of similar advantages to making iPads and iPhones really "Pro."
That's the leap we are waiting for in my opinion, and what will propel them back to the top. Not trying to convince us that the iPad Pro is for you to take it to a meeting and write down notes on it. Actual pen and paper are way better for this and thousands of dollar cheaper. Apple was respected because their workflow was powerful enough for pros, and at the same time very intuitive and easy to learn for a kid to grab a computer and do anything on it, be creative on it... not make you addicted to social networks or IAP games.
Do it, Apple... catering actual professional work will push your R&D and creativity even further. Casual users will just reap the fruits from that.
That's the passion old Apple drove into fans. New Apple... meh. Just extremely expensive and underpowered hardware.
Has someone here (or many people as you suggest above) actually said:
"Apple is the only company that can innovate or produce a worthwhile product." ?
Funny.. you are not including microsoft into the competition anymore? Just Google and facebook?
Not something Tim will be highlighting next month before he announces Apple’s next “innovation”, subscription news service.
Or they could be very passionate about Apple and are currently disappointed with the state of Apple and obvious lack of innovation as of late. That's just my take on the current atmosphere here.
Lack of innovation not to be confused with not being able to continuously feed minds easily prone to boredom
Yesterday I was reading the report about Samsung’s foldable phone on Appleinsider and practically every comment was trashing Samsung. What’s the difference?
go open the thread about the new samsung devices. there are dozens if not hundreds of "COPY CAT" statements with complete ignoring of any and all reality.
there are people on these forums from both camps that will refuse to listen to fact in order to fit their either Pro Apple or Anti Apple sentiment regardless of fact that back it.
and many of them seem to have no hesitation trying to get their FUD in as fast as possible.
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They are commonly referred to as trolls.
Yup, somehow grafting the Uber “give it to me now” *business model* is innovative. It may be an innovative business tactic (or just another example of late stage capitalism), but I don’t get how service delivery is innovation.
I find a strong cup of coffee and free floating internet rage in the morning helps keep me regular.
And they’re saying Apple is the only company that can innovate or produce a worthwhile product?
yes. There are a few who have used nearly those identical words.
for the most part it's easy to just move on and ignore them.
here are some random quotes from the earphones thread, names removed for hopefully obvious purposes:
could go on. thats just from the first 3 pages
this isn't also saying there aren't also people from the other side of the spectrum that dump on everything Apple every single time either. There are some user who are in fact only here to do so and troll as well.
just saying that both "ends" of this have users who do more harm than help as they repeat FUD and nonsense without any real ability to have them corrected, other than call them out (which just has them label you a hater / fanboy and ignore you anyways)
this forums biggest mistake was removal of the downvote button for these very nonsense posts that should be buried deeper than the marianna's trench
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