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And I thought Amazon was a book distributor. And I thought Netflix was a DVD library. And I thought Microsoft was a productivity vendor. And I thought Google was a search engine. And......
You probably could? Then why don't you? Are you just holding your knowledge back from the world to spare us from advancing too quickly and not being overwhelmed by a sudden evolutionary jump? Also, how on earth did you infer that they pulled engineers and suddenly turned them into content creators? THAT makes absolutely NO sense. Instead, you claim "innovation" is providing a budget-priced piece of hardware to sit on a Best Buy shelf? Absurd. Why not just ask Apple to become another Circuit City?
Yes, they are very greedy. Selling stuff for money. How dare they.
P.S.: they sell clothes and food at their store at the headquarters in Cupertino.
The actors who win and want those awards, and will gravitate toward companies that help them do the work they want, which in turn will produce more content like The Crown, and less like The Bachelor. And the viewers will then be more likely to show up and pay for it. If you got rid of Netflix, Hulu's, and Amazon's flagship original shows, do ANY of them have an advantage over the others?
What do you guess the Apple TV 4K in your signature does with questions such as the one you asked?
You are correct. Relying solely on the iPhone is not a sustainable business model. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean Apple shouldn’t innovate in the hardware area any longer. But that sure seems to be the direction they’re going lately.
Yep. Face ID wasn’t innovation at all. Neither was Apple Pencil. Neither are AirPods. Neither is Apple Watch 4.
Face ID? Face ID is slow and undependable. How do I know? I have owned an iPhone X since December 2017, that’s how. It is nowhere near as fast or reliable as Touch ID. Face ID is a solution looking for a problem. Touch ID worked just fine... better, even. Apple Pencil? Nothing more than Apple’s version of something that had already been done by Microsoft with the Surface. A stylus... big whoop. Apple Watch 4 is another iteration of a product we’ve had for over 6 years now. Although the original was intriguing and fairly innovative. To be fair, the best example you gave was AirPods. AirPods are probably Apple’s greatest product achievement in a decade. I have a pair of them also. The problem with them... have you seen the recent news? Many prominent scientists in the world have agreed that they are concerned about the radiation they emanate that closely to your inner ear and, subsequently, your brain. Is that considered innovation? Probably. Is it considered good innovation? Now that’s definitely debatable.
Apple need to step up their game in the hardware department quite a bit if they want to compete. I see some of their competition coming up alongside them now. The competition is no longer in the rear view mirror.
Oh... and by the way, Apple purchased the already-established company that created Face ID and its components. Apple itself didn’t come up with the concept. Therefore, the credit for that innovation goes to someone else.
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Thats a stupid argument. Ask the pros how well that 6-year old Mac Pro is holding up against other vendors professional computers. Computer technology continues to move forward, yes, at a slower pace, but Apple just ignores it and charges high end prices on 6 year old trash bins of crap.