Apple Shares Full Video of March 'It's Show Time' Event on YouTube

[thei3ug]

Agree. As I was watching the Event yesterday, it dawned on me that there’s probably nothing to look forward to when it comes to future Apple product releases. And that’s why we got yesterday’s event.

With hundreds of billions in the bank, Apple absolutely refuse to spend relatively small amounts to do simple things like modernize iCloud and fix the obvious issues with most of their current Mac hardware. And relief just isn’t coming for those product lines.

I don’t want to leave the ecosystem. But I probably won’t have a choice soon without having to trick myself into believing Apple products remain worthwhile buys. And I’ve been using them for 27 years.

Fixing iCloud won’t be a priority until utilization drops enough to warrant a new investment.

It’s not about product, it’s about return. Why spend money to fix a service if they don’t anticipate new revenue from it?

Same with Mac. User base is relatively stable, and fixing the issues won’t create new Mac users. So.... no fixing. It’s not about making great products, it’s a balance between investment and revenue. That’s the math they do.

iCloud will never compete with OneDrive, google drive, so keep it just usable enough to be a feature of other products. Mac is just usable enough for niche segments (video, fashion, nerds for nice trackpads), but it will never grow relative to other markets, so.... minimum investment to keep user base stable.

We are back seat to new faster ROI products. They have us, no need to spend except to keep us.

I’m already out on most services. The underlying OS keeps me.

 

[macfacts]

Their previous financial dependancy on iPhone sales was always a huge risk and now a memory.

Youre talking like these subscriptions are a sure thing. More consumption services.

 

[ELman]

Lots of announcements with the wording available later this year. I found the credit card the most interesting, but that won’t be available until later this year.

 

[joueboy]

Why bother they could have just reposted MacRumor's 5 minute video.

 

[5105973]

Like it or not, this is quite remarkable business strategy and almost certain to pay them and their shareholders even more dividends.

Without cannibalising their existing lineup, they are opening up more revenue streams. Indeed, they are actually complimenting their (iOS) products by augmenting the ecosystem functions as well. For any other business it would be a huge and complex step into the unknown, Apple however appear to be achieving it as natural progression, all the while supporting what for the last ~8 years has been their core business.

Their previous financial dependancy on iPhone sales was always a huge risk and now a memory.

The strategy is a good idea. I’m just shocked that the presentation was so poorly executed. I’d have thought they’ve got more than a few people on the payroll to design a knock your socks off presentation. This was a blathering incoherent mess through some parts and then long winded pretentious fluff through others. It’s sort of like a compilation of my posting history!

 

[Vanilla35]

Agree. As I was watching the Event yesterday, it dawned on me that there’s probably nothing to look forward to when it comes to future Apple product releases. And that’s why we got yesterday’s event.

With hundreds of billions in the bank, Apple absolutely refuse to spend relatively small amounts to do simple things like modernize iCloud and fix the obvious issues with most of their current Mac hardware. And relief just isn’t coming for those product lines.

I don’t want to leave the ecosystem. But I probably won’t have a choice soon without having to trick myself into believing Apple products remain worthwhile buys. And I’ve been using them for 27 years.

Totally agree with you, and have picked up on this over the last several years. I'm on the way out within the next 1-2 years. Luckily I don't utilize a lot of the ecosystem features, just hand off and imessages.

 

[dan9700]

It has Tim's favourite subject, "Immigration". And so called "human stories" from Iran, Syria etc.

Yeah political propaganda ruined this event,

 

[IRockThat828pScreen]

They really should have put out Trailers for each show. It's the best way to do it.

Honestly that's what I was expecting this entire event to be. I thought we would get like 20 minutes on Apple News+ and then the rest of the event would be like 10-15 trailers for Apple TV+

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

All the benefits of Ambien without the nasty side effects.

There are reports of people watching this and then inexplicably showing up at an Apple Store, and they don't remember how they got there.

 

[Vanilla35]

The only way I can describe this keynote is by saying it's very California. Not my thing, personally.

 

[adamw]

Glad Apple put it up on YouTube for all the world to see. Now let's see if they can deliver on making all these services top notch.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

Pretty sure Apple isn’t interested in providing an additional forum for the Apple-hate crowd, who have already turned various Apple-centric sites into comment cesspools.

Apple reaps what it sows when it comes to public opinion.

 

[scottrngr]

I hope the Apple tv service shows reruns of Happy Days. How ironic would it be to watch Fonzie jump the shark on the product that Apple jumped the shark.

 

[derekamoss]

Here is some fun lol

https://mspoweruser.com/apple-news-hacked-already/

 

[Muzzakus]

Good, the POS Apple Events app no longer works on the ATV for me.

 

[1050792]

Here is some fun lol

https://mspoweruser.com/apple-news-hacked-already/

"Security" what happens on your iPhone stays in the cache.

 

[CarpalMac]

Youre talking like these subscriptions are a sure thing. More consumption services.

I'm referring to their ongoing strategy to increase revenues from services. 19% YOY growth? No matter what your allegiance, that's nauseatingly impressive! https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/29/apple-services-revenue-q1-2019/

 

[Mike_Trivisonno]

Comments disabled lol


wait all their videos have commenting disabled

use dissenter

 

[JetTester]

Great! Whenever I can't sleep, I can bring this up and off to sleep I go.

 

[NMBob]

I can certainly imagine a very dangerous religion continuing to grow around the company (and the tech industry as a whole).

Yup, yup and yup. Maybe the Apple Floaty Chair will come out before the Apple Car.

 

[Apple Master]

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This time the sledgehammer bounced off the screen...

I was thinking the same thing as Apple now is big brother.

 

[Vasilioskn]

My god please no. Make it stop.

 

[Jeezeypeeps]

He; am I the only one that just loves to watch celebs massaging their own egos and pretending they invented story-telling / TV / Drama / pretty-much-everything.

Guess so :-(

p.s. magazines?

 

[kagharaht]

Apple is still a computer company. You guys need to remember that. All this stuff is just to "enhance" the experience and expand services to use with Apple Computers, Mobile Devices. Apple didn't say they are going to stop making the products that Apple was built on. So relax you guys.

 

[trauma62]

Nothing appealing. Waste of time. $10 for news and a bunch of magazines a month? pleeeeazze