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Apple Renews 'Carpool Karaoke' for a Third Season

jdiamond said:
Guys, I know this is a really newbie type question, but is there anyway to watch Apple TV shows from a Mac? Or are they only available on AppleTV?

Thanks,
- Jeff
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Exactly. Completely agree. But notice Sony is in no danger of going out of business. And they even still make some products that inspire, like their cameras, and possibly still some TVs, and some good movies now and then. So there's the MECHANISM that is the Apple Corporation, and there's the joy that the customers feel, and those two aren't necessarily linked. After all, look how happy Apple customers were a decade ago when Apple was not so successful. The main danger is we transition all the way to full Microsoft-like customers, where we absolutely hate the products, but still mostly have to use them anyway because there's no real alternative.
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agreed.

I would add that the Apple Machine began to decline 8 or 10 years ago, and they have been coasting on inertia and old ideas. And things Steve was working on before he passed.

When those old ideas inevitably peter out, Apple will find out that it's Accountant King failed to plant the seeds of the next great world-changing paradigms.

This is similar to Sony's experience. Which is why they are now a shell of their former selves...a zombie, doomed to plod along making versions of the same ideas you can find at other vendors. Eventually divesting of what used to be core business areas altogether.

Sound familiar?

#FIRETHEACCOUNTANT
 
Dirtfarmer said:
FIRE THE ACCOUNTANT

Get back to focusing on the core business, which is falling apart.

Macs are only 6% of computer sold, mobile sales have fallen off a cliff, bluetooth speakers didn't work out, digital assistant is objectively bad, watch sales have plateaued, iTunes discontinued because it sucks, and your laptop keyboards quit working after awhile.

But you are putting money into podcasts, youtube video series, inventing new colours of watch band, and buying rap star headphone companies whose products are overpriced and make bad sound.

Like COME ON. Priorities!

#FIRETHEACCOUNTANT
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I saw "FIRE THE ACCOUNTANT", and I gave you an instant like. I despise accountants. Why? I work in IT.
 
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Emanuel Rodriguez said:
I saw "FIRE THE ACCOUNTANT", and I gave you an instant like. I despise accountants. Why? I work in IT.
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I work in IT and have accountants as some of my clients. They’re fine.

Also, Tim Cook is clearly not an accountant (nor does he fit the stereotype), so the dumb hashtag isn’t even accurate.
 
TheMacDaddy1 said:
I honestly forget that Apple bought this. This and it is actually hard to find so you can watch it. Last time I tried I had to use Apple Music?
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Is that where you're supposed to find it? I thought it was a YouTube series or an app or something. Where exactly is Apple going to put all these new shows they're supposedly building, especially now that they're going to gut iTunes?
 
Dirtfarmer said:
agreed.

I would add that the Apple Machine began to decline 8 or 10 years ago, and they have been coasting on inertia and old ideas. And things Steve was working on before he passed.

When those old ideas inevitably peter out, Apple will find out that it's Accountant King failed to plant the seeds of the next great world-changing paradigms.

This is similar to Sony's experience. Which is why they are now a shell of their former selves...a zombie, doomed to plod along making versions of the same ideas you can find at other vendors. Eventually divesting of what used to be core business areas altogether.

Sound familiar?

#FIRETHEACCOUNTANT
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sounds like fanboys who loved to love a small company because it was cool, like loving a band before they became a hit then hating them because they have become ‘too commercial’. The rest of your arguement looks on the jobs era with rose tinted specs and you memory compressing events to make it all seem like hit after hit in close succession, which it wasn’t.
 
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Marshall73 said:
sounds like fanboys who loved to love a small company because it was cool, like loving a band before they became a hit then hating them because they have become ‘too commercial’. The rest of your arguement looks on the jobs era with rose tinted specs and you memory compressing events to make it all seem like hit after hit in close succession, which it wasn’t.
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You've made two very good points.

The people who get bent out of shape about a band going off in a different direction - can't they still enjoy the music the band previously made, perhaps looking forward to the band "getting back on track" at a later date? Could it be that maybe they've established a one-sided "personal relationship" with that band, perhaps putting far too much importance on that relationship, as if it was the key to life or something?

Everything wasn't roses when Steve was in charge. There were some bad design decisions, some failed projects and actual releases, and some very public defects that he had to face. In the moment, there were times we wondered where everything was going and if it would come together. It did, though.

I think the reason was that the guy was the best kind of despot, with a master plan (everything must give people the power to do more than before, elegantly and easily) and some guiding principles (4 quadrant product matrix, intersection of arts/science, have exactly what you need and pare away the rest) that were simple yet powerful. Having the right people in the right slots - and keeping them coloring within their lines - was also a major key to success. Apple does seem to have lost that, and cutting products like their excellent routers while moving into content creation seems to be a true beancounter move.

I stopped caring for the most part, with just a small part of me saying "look at what we had, and look at what could be", while the rest is saying "Meh. Steve is gone, it'll never be the same and "better" doesn't seem to be on the radar".
 
Marshall73 said:
sounds like fanboys who loved to love a small company because it was cool, like loving a band before they became a hit then hating them because they have become ‘too commercial’. The rest of your arguement looks on the jobs era with rose tinted specs and you memory compressing events to make it all seem like hit after hit in close succession, which it wasn’t.
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at least they were constantly trying, constantly taking risks, constantly striving for the next big revolution.

At least they were willing to do big things; willing to fail big in pursuit of executing a brilliant vision.

The Accountant King plays it safe by recycling the old stuff that he knows will sell.

The last time a world-changing paradigm shift was announced, Steve was on stage. That was a long time ago.

#FIRETHEACCOUNTANT
 
chucker23n1 said:
I work in IT and have accountants as some of my clients. They’re fine.

Also, Tim Cook is clearly not an accountant (nor does he fit the stereotype), so the dumb hashtag isn’t even accurate.
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They fine as clients. They're not fine telling you that you can't buy something you need to do your job. They're not all like that obviously, but I've had experiences...

The way I see it is that the accountants and bookkeepers of the world are there to squeeze your company dry until it can't function, because they know too little about the business to really be the best judge of what can and cannot be bought. They WILL cut necessary costs if you let them, thereby killing your business (look at Apple of the 90s). The responsibility of any business is to keep their accountants and bookkeepers in check so that they can do their job without bringing the entire business down.

Unfortunately, when they do control the business, being able to do your job is often a luxury (nice when it happens, but often doesn't).
 
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