Apple used to sell windsurfs and a bunch of other stuff when Steve Jobs wasn't there. When executive have no direction they start to come up with things like that... like watches and cars.Is this sarcasm? B/c if not, I don't know what to say honestly.
OMG! That paints and entirely different picture. Apple has totally collapsed. You are right Apple is doomed! /SYou stopped a year early.
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OMG! That paints and entirely different picture. Apple has totally collapsed. You are right Apple is doomed! /S
BTW his claim was year over year declines.
2015 sure was a unusually large jump, wasn't it?
I suppose it was the increase in sales in Asia and the large phones but that was really dramatic.
I woke up in the morning to my alarm on my Apple phone. Then I put on my Apple watch. Then I drove to work in my Apple car (or it drove me). Then I showed up to work at Apple. Then I had an appl for lunch while listening to Apple Music.
Where will it end?
OMG! That paints and entirely different picture. Apple has totally collapsed. You are right Apple is doomed! /S
BTW his claim was year over year declines.
People said that about the iPhone. There were computers and there were phones -- and the two worlds were entirely separate. Not a core business at all.
I live in Beijing and I'm curious to know how self driving cars would react to the driving the habits of people in Beijing?
Apple cars will scatter and run away back to Cupertino. Or to the home chinese factory that produced it.I live in Beijing and I'm curious to know how self driving cars would react to the driving the habits of people in Beijing?
Jony Ive will design Apple pants for those cases. Didi pants in gold and rose gold.on the other side, member drivers for Didi Chuxing are not as educated as Uber drivers, and many cases of didi drivers raping women passengers or driving without pants etc...
Yes. I agree with your last statement. Prove me otherwise.Funny how you people want to have it both ways. Have you heard of the self-serving bias? That's where people take credit for their successes but blame forces outside themselves for their failures.
Steve Jobs worshippers have a Steve-serving bias. Anything Apple does that is good is the result of things Steve put in place and everything bad is the result of Tim Cook.
You forgot that at one time, Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy!I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say "Apple is doomed." Maybe you're just young, but I had an Apple IIe for my first computer. Every year since then I have listened to people say "the end for Apple is near." Still waiting...
It is inevitable that Apple will fade out someday, but if you think you can predict that day, well, you're wrong.
I would say yes. Steve was great at coming up with new products, but terrible at getting them ready in sufficient quantities to meet demand.I was just asking a question, that you didn't really answer. Are you saying that if Jobs was still around he wouldn't have achieved the same level of growth since Cook took over? Which era of Apple is really more likely to have been the driving force in Apples current success? Is that really debatable at this point in time? Has Cook really revolutionized the company or just kept it afloat? He has made a lot of rather odd decisions since he took over, especially the "big ones." (Purchase of Beats Electronics, Apple Watch, 1 billion dollar bribe/investment in a Chinese company who is the biggest competitor to a potential US powerhouse in UBER)
Bad example, IMO.
Smart watches were beginning to sell. Like other blossoming markets they've entered, that's why Apple got interested.
However, in typical Apple fashion, they locked their system down to make it impossible for anyone else to integrate with an iPhone. So of course their own device with secret access, would be the best selling on their own ecosystem.
As for marketing something to everyone, I agree. When the Watch came out, I noted that Apple had made sure it had something to appeal to everyone. Of course, when other companies do that, it's calling "throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks". Nothing wrong with that, though. Smart move.
Tim Cook has miserably failed to take Apple to the next level as a product company. Apple, at heart, is a consumer product company, not a service company. Once a company leaves it's true religion, it's set for failure.
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The Wall Street Journal wrote that Didi Chuxing is "not only an important ally in a key market, but also a rich data source for self-driving vehicles,"...
The self driving car can never replace the real driver.
Apple is whatever it needs to be at that particular point in time. The way I see it, Apple has grown, and is no longer the same Apple we knew from a decade ago. The same strategies that allowed it to become successful in the first place may not longer be relevant or applicable to this newer, larger and more profitable Apple.
I have never seen Apple has a product company for one. I like Apple because it sells me the ecosystem and the user experience, not so much just the hardware. The Apple of today is simply taking that to the next level by offering me more services that build on the existing Apple ecosystem and augment the end user experience.
After all, when you already have an iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air, iMac and a couple of Apple TVs, what hardware is there left to sell me?
(3) While iPhone has become more powerful, Apple computers have not. They have released lower power computers while keeping prices the same. Margin has been a priority and high power users have not. How else do you explain the Macbook? A lower power computer with only 1 port? Refreshes to Air and Pro have been non-existent.
(4) Apple Watch. A fundamental shift in the direction of how Apple decided to market a product. Fashion houses, models costing thousands of dollars, no longer is "status" subtle but blatant-depending on how much you paid for a particular model of the device. Advertisements in vogue, watches under fancy glass cases requiring a "sales pitch" from an Apple employee. The hiring of the CEO of an overpriced fashion house with no real tech experience to run the retail stores.
If Apple had a little brain they could have put together Safari and iWorks and create "Google Drive". But no... they have those applications cute looking doing nothing because no one is using them.
When the only person in charge is innovation is a designer, I don't see how much of innovation can come out of the company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reasoning
Remember after Steve was fired from Apple, they started dabbling into really weird niche products that had nothing to do with their core business and sales across the board began to tank due to lack of updates/innovation in the products that actually made money thus crippling the company revenue?
I look at the numbers for iPhones and Mac's going down year over year, stories like this one indicating more and more capital and resources being diverted from core product R&D into this "Apple Car," and I can't help but get a chilling sense of deja vu.
I don't see Apple that way. I see Apple as more of a liberator. Go back in the history and see what Apple did for music and for that matter for phone. It may look kind of obvious progression, but it's not. There are so many more things to do. I am fine Apple even looking into the car. May be they can bring more sophisticated automation to automobile technology. But investing into a taxi automation company???? That's not Apple!
The Air is a dead man walking, I was surprised they bumped it at all this year (it happened). That's the last refresh it'll get — it's only around as a cheaper entry point, just like the lingering older iPads. The MacBook is the new Air.
I have to agree with you here. When you look at the state of the Android Wear market, it's the same story as Android smartphones. It's heavily commoditised. People don't value it as they see it as another piece of cheap, throwaway tech, and it shows as general consensus is that the masses aren't willing to pay more than $100 or $200 for one.You have a better way to market wearable computers to the masses? Shoot Phil Schiller a note, I'm sure he'd LOVE to hear your ideas. :|