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The iPhone at several points has been the world's most popular smartphone.
Rubbish.
Gone, nearly forgotten about, poor effort... monitors and matte screens, routers, 17in laptops, reasonably priced 14in/17in laptops, mac mini, mac pro, MacOS, servers, constant improvements in software products, questionable and inconsistent design decisions, AppleTV OS, back-lit keyboards with AA batteries, etc.
Most effort seems to be in selling iPhones and providing media for consumption now.
Gone, nearly forgotten about, poor effort... monitors and matte screens, routers, 17in laptops, reasonably priced 14in/17in laptops, mac mini, mac pro, MacOS, servers, constant improvements in software products, questionable and inconsistent design decisions, AppleTV OS, back-lit keyboards with AA batteries, etc.
Most effort seems to be in selling iPhones and providing media for consumption now.
This is why I never understood the cord cutting craze. So instead of paying one bill to Comcast or whoever you’re now paying Apple, Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Hulu, Disney etc. and still in many cases not getting live news or sports. How is that better exactly?
Apple needs to use that money to fix their software security bugs instead of buying "original" content.
For sure Eddy Cue should lose iCloud (and any pro apps he might still oversee). But I doubt Craig Federighi, Dan Riccio or Johny Srouji are spending any time Apple’s content endeavors. I wouldn’t mind seeing it spun off and Eddy Cue sent to LA but Wall Street is obsessed with Apple becoming a services company with predictable recurring revenue streams so I can’t see the board ever spinning off this business.
It's not & if you subscribe to all of those services, you'll probably end up paying more.
Most people just share logins to make it financially viable.
Stick with your core products, Apple. Remind people that Apple products are the best way to view/listen to content.
Oh, what’s the point?
Oh, what’s the point?
Incredibly well said! I saw the same thing in commercial radio 10-15 years ago and now radio is... dead!
Do you watch every channel and show you get through cable? I only get Netflix and OTA and I still have tons to watch.
Plenty of college basketball, NFL, and college football. I also get ESPN3 already included in my Internet only plan. For news I just record NBC Nightly News and PBS NewsHour. There’s also the free 24 hour network CBS News available everywhere online.
What Steve felt, thought, wanted was at a fixed point in time, before 2011.
It's 2018.
Different landscape.
You have no idea what he would of felt, thought, wanted at this point in time.
Pulling out the Steve card is no longer valid.
No but I don’t care. I want one bill, local channels and additional sports coverage (which I get with DirecTV). I don’t want to deal with OTA or multiple $10-15 bills.
How much does DirecTV charge you? I bet going the DirecTV Now, Sling TV, YouTubeTV, or other OTT service would save you more money. The only big thing DirecTV has now is probably NFL Sunday Ticket. And even then I believe AT&T DirecTV is in discussions with the NFL to expand that portion to DirecTV Now.
Sometimes I think they are trying to do too much with Apple Music. I have had nothing but problems with iCloud Music Library.
I'm just worried about their delivery:
"Come watch all the Apple Original TV shows.... by subscribing to Apple Music..."
Also... it pretty much requires buying an Apple TV to watch this content on a TV... since you can't watch it on any ol' smart TV, Roku box, etc.
That will limit its appeal too.
I think even my toaster has Netflix.
So true, and Apple TV so under delivers. I also find their remotes completely and utterly useless
It’s combines with my AT&T bill. I actually get like $20 off my bill because I’m an AT&T customer.
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I don’t think iCloud music library sucks because Apple is doing to much, it sucks because Apple sucks when it comes to cloud services. Eddy Cue has no business overseeing iCloud. Tim Cook should poach someone from Amazon, Google or Microsoft to run Apple’s cloud business. Or buy Dropbox and let them run it.
When will people finally realize that Apple Engineers who works on iPhones, Macs, iOS, MacOS doesn't have a part on making these TV Shows?
Again. When will people finally realize that Apple Engineers who works on iPhones, Macs, iOS, MacOS, etc.. doesn't have a part on making these TV Shows?
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When will people realise that without product focus and vision you go from leading the industry to being part of the pack.
This has nothing to do with engineers , engineers or developers need product vision! This is one of most silly replies i see on MR, it's not about engineering! It's where the company is focusing its roadmap on or lack of focus
The problem isn't the availability of resources but the high level strategy.
Regardless of the size of the company, there is only one person at the top making these decisions (even if these decisions are filtered down and the results filtered up through myriad layers of management and public relations figureheads).
Apple used to make great computers for software development not because it had great technicians but because of Steve Job's focus on what they were doing. This started to slip when iPads and iPhones became the thing and, for a while, Apple phones were the undisputed leader of that market. Then came music distribution, headphones, shops, TV boxes, self driving cars, watches, and now home decor and sci-fi programs.
When this happens, the ability to build class leading products in any individual class ebbs away. Given the impossibility of devoting the time required to any of these specialisations, senior management must delegate strategic decisions and feign interest in detail.
The net result is that products eventually become commoditised, safe, built to a price, built to fit a market profile. Passion, vision and ambition (other than for profit) wither.
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Footnote: An interesting article on the BBC today. In a technology that Apple ought to own, the best you can say is that they get mentioned...
Amazon Alexa v Google Assistant - fight gets fierce
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42630606
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