The word "incompetent" aside (which was used and I thought you were alluding to Jony Ive
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...he-notch-in-2019.2132842/page-3#post-27598541), the lack of seeing the bigger picture, has been, imo, an endemic here. Armchair CEOs and CFOs reign supreme and so far, most of them have gotten little right about apple.
It should come as no surprise that the people who criticise Apple the loudest perhaps understand Apple the least.
Therein lies the great hypocrisy. Yes, if I were to keep parroting the same tired “Apple is doomed” refrain day after day, month after month, year after year, there may well come a way when Apple’s fortunes do wane and I am eventually proven right.
This may not happen tomorrow. It may not happen in the next decade. It may not happen in my lifetime ever. I suppose I should resign myself to the fact that for as long as I am fit and able to browse this forum, such proclamations will continue to be a constant fixture. The norm, rather than the exception.
And here’s the thing. Even if Apple does fail one day and the critics are finally proven right, it would have come after having being proven wrong about Apple for so many decades running that in the greater scheme of things, they would have been wrong.
Like a broken clock which technically still shows the correct time twice a day, but I certainly won’t classify it as “working” by any means.
I suppose I should feel fortuitous that I can at least seek solace in the fact that Apple’s fortunes are not in any way reliant on random Macrumours comments or how vocal their critics get.
Apple will go on being Apple, and go on to be bigger and more profitable for it, which will in turn tick off the haters. The cycle renews and well, that’s just the way she goes.