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Apple Inks Apple Music Deal With Indian Ride-Hailing Company Ola
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Those critics are probably not even qualified for janitorial positions in Cupertino, much less CEO. But on MacRumors, they know best how to run the biggest corporation in the world.
As has been gone over many times - Steve Balmer's Microsoft grew mightily for several years, but when the dust settled, he was considered a lousy CEO. So keep talking about the profits and growth right now, that's what all the Steve Ballmer chearleaders did early on in his tenure.
http://qz.com/819739/why-tim-cook-is-steve-ballmer-and-why-he-still-has-his-job-at-apple/
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Read the link above and then listen to the Steve Jobs interview about Xerox I posted earlier in this forum. You are counting the current jar of beans and proclaiming Cook a great CEO, without looking any deeper.
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The couple of times that I took Ola in India, I heard nothing playing. I prefer to have a quiet time while I'm in a cab.
Google started out as cross/web platform. Apple did not and probably never fully do it. They build their software to sell hardware.
As for affordable.... Apple is positioned as a premium brand. They are not MS who wants to be all things to all people.
What Apple needs to do is hire more quality engineers and focus on their core services.... iCloud and iTunes for example need work!
...why would they let the customer control the temperature? You pick up one person who likes it warm, then afterwards you pick up another person who gets in, bitches about it being too hot and then cranks up your AC. Now they leave you with a 3 or 4 star review instead of 5 because the ride was initially uncomfortable.
People bring up profits all the time to determine if a company's course of action is good or bad and even more astoundingly whether it will be good or bad in the future.
This profits-first kind of thinking has me wondering what attracted these sometimes long Apple customers to Apple.
Those are not the core principles of the Apple I - quite honestly - fell a little bit in love with ages ago.
Also, I wonder what a cuck you gotta be to NOT at least voice your opinion when you don't like the direction of a company which's products and ecosystem you are heavily invested into all because short-term profits "legitimize" their actions.
As much as it's a company's job to keep their finances in control, which does include profits, it's also every customers right and dare I say obligation to voice their disconsent with a company's products in a market-based economy.
It's free market feedback for Apple, whether Apple wants to make use of it or not is entirely up to them.
So yes, arm-chair CEOs ARE good for their feedback.
A good company should either have a clear vision and straight forward direction of their own that keeps customers engaged and secures the company's success or do the little bit more of market research.
Tell you what, Apple's profits won't rise forever and if they want to be a trendy company they are subject to becoming untrendy, maybe even uncool at some point.
They still produce mass-market items that are commodities, not luxuary jewelry.
By the time the fashion crowd might - and I won't say they will for sure - drop them like hot potatoes, the average Apple user who might have switched by then won't even look at Apple's lineup anymore if they are unlucky.
Apple is playing a dangerous game, but sure enough, since Cook and Co. are highly paid professionals they must have a better sense for things than I do.
Big companies never go bankrupt or get close to such a situation and certainly Apple never has....
Oh wait...
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True, it's work. But having a parade of posts about "this is dumb, give me an iMac/Mac Pro/Time Capsule update" are silly. This isn't taking away from that work.
Well then we'll
No one, including Tim Cook, claims he is the visionary that Steve Jobs was. However, your denigration of him, despite Apple's literally record setting performance in so many areas since he took over, and prediction of gloom is like those fans from competing teams of the New England Patriots. Damn that coach Belichick. Yes, he has won four Superbowls and dominates year after year, but he's not that good of a coach. His success can't last and you wait until Tom Brady retires.
More importantly, though, Ballmer's path was nothing like Cook's, and that's where your analogy crashes. Ballmer rode the existing Microsoft monopoly and didn't effectively get into new areas like mobile. Cook's path has been very different. To cite just a few examples: He has taken Apple into entire new and critically important markets like China. He has launched Apple into wearables and while still early, Apple now thoroughly dominates a smart watch market despite huge competitors like Samsung. He launched Apple into music streaming and they are now #2 in a short period of time. He launched Apple Pay and again zoomed past huge competitors like Google to thoroughly dominate that market. He has taken Apple "services" which was routinely denigrated under Jobs, and grown it into the equivalent of a Fortune 100 company with billions in revenue each quarter.
Finally, despite your mis-characterization as lacking innovation, in addition to the above examples, under Cook, Apple has spent exponentially more on R&D than it ever did under Jobs, and is now spending over $10 billion a year. That alone is indication that Apple is aggressively exploring a myriad of new technological innovations. It's maybe news to you that Apple has acquired almost 30 of the most leading edge technology companies just in the past two years under Cook.
You don't mind that they can't secure TV content and have never commented on that? You must be a true 1 in 1 million macrumors visitor.
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Again, not what Jobs was talking about. I suppose it's easy to twist a dead man's words into whatever you want. BTW, you cannot have a monopoly on people, especially when there are a dozen decent solutions for each product that Apple cuts. I want Apple to do everything too but they won't and shouldn't. I guess they have more focus than we do.
This is really stupid.
This is about Apple music, not Apple's ability or lack thereof to secure TV content. Why have you taken it upon yourself to put words in my mouth and paint what you perceive my opinion to be when I've said nothing of the sort? I've literally said nothing about TV in this thread, yet you are convinced you know all about my position, which you don't. And if you did, it still wouldn't make **** of a difference for the purposes of this thread, so drop it.
Well said, there's a reason why Apple is Apple and Samsung, HP & LG are everything else.
Steve Jobs was about doing the right thing (or at least trying to do the right thing) and profits will come. Shareholders believed in his vision.
Cook is about profits and not knowing if it's the right thing. Shareholders simply believe in the short-term profits. There is no vision to believe in. And Cook simply is living up to the shareholders.
Still, so long as there is no better smartphone, tablet of computer, I will stick with Apple.
Cook is about profits and not knowing if it's the right thing. Shareholders simply believe in the short-term profits. There is no vision to believe in. And Cook simply is living up to the shareholders.
Still, so long as there is no better smartphone, tablet of computer, I will stick with Apple.