No matter how things are now, successful Apple was all about Steve Jobs.
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Apple Turns 40: Reflecting on Four Decades of History
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Flying a pirate flag does absolutely nothing. Some of the most beautiful things in my place are Apple products. It's too bad they all work like **** these days.
Remember when things just worked? I do and I really miss those days... as my time machine back up stalls yet again...etc
Remember when things just worked? I do and I really miss those days... as my time machine back up stalls yet again...etc
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Obscene. Some people seem to be utterly ignorante about what a pirate is. HInt: murders, kidnappings, violations, destruction and robbery. Apple, this time you are pathetic.
Wayne? Just saw that he was from Cleveland, Ohio. My home town! Very cool
. Although one former Apple worker formed Small Dog Electronics here in Vermont as a local retail chain for Apple products.
Jobs would've never had a 40th celebration. And where are the FW800 ports? Fail.
Agree. While it would be hard to replicate that incredible period between 2001-2011 where Apple hit home run after home run, it feels a bit ruddlerless right now. It's either new sizes of already created products (iPad, iPhone) or watered down versions of previous products (iMac, Mini). Reception to the new products (Apple Watch and MacBook) has been lukewarm.
While they remain insanely profitable and have cash to burn, it doesn't feel like they have the focus and direction that they used to have.
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This is one time I can confirm without a doubt how Steve Jobs would have felt about the Pirate Flag, and the Anniversary sentimentality.
He would have hated it, and not let Apple do it. That is the one thing, if nothing else, he was consistent about year after year.
It's Tim Cook that's the problem
Tim Cook isn't a vision guy. Tim Cook is an accountant, and he's probably not a good fit for the job. I'm willing to stipulate he has impeccable moral clarity, but I don't think he's product oriented per se.
And yet Steve Jobs decided this non-vision accountant was the right man to lead Apple once he was gone. Are you saying then that really Steve was the one without vision?
It's Tim Cook that's the problem
Tim Cook, the guy that Steve Jobs chose to replace him. So you're saying Steve Jobs was crap when it came to picking leaders? Or did illness cause cloudy judgement?
Sadly this has been the way of things for a few years now. Updates that bring finder bugs, system hangs, GPU issues, breaking software like NEC Spectraview making my monitor useless, and now with 10.11.4 inability to shut down apps and restart. Yay.
Very true. People forget they have lots of things cooking in the oven like the Apple Car which could potentially turn the car industry upside down like they did with the iPhone.
What is amazing is that I have been around for the entire ride. I got the Apple ][ as a kid in 79 i think and have been an Apple fan ever since. I guess that makes me a fart as well.
Tesla are already doing that.
I think it's great that Apple are doing a car, however. The more minds we have working on self-driving and electric vehicle tech, the better. These things are more important for the world than thinner phones!
With Cue and P. Upsell Schiller, pleaaase...It's Tim Cook that's the problem