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Apple's Profit Downturn and Negative Customer Opinions Threaten 'Decade-Long Malaise' for Company
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Microsoft and Google also think mobile computing is the future. Are they wrong also?
I agree completely. Apple has been riding high for a long time and management has lost touch. Another year or two and their competition will be offering comparable, if not better, products and, more importantly, user experiences. Go try a Surface Studio. It's very impressive. Phil's dogmatic insistence that touch does not work on the desktop is utter nonsense. Microsoft has delivered the best iMac.
I do not doubt Tim's operations savvy but he lacks vision and unfortunately so does the rest of the abysmal executive team. I see Phil and Eddie as the weakest links and while I still admire Jony's hardware designs overall, since UI/UX came under his control, the iOS and macOS experiences have both degenerated.
More of these type of media stories will create uncertainty, share price will drop and Timmy isn't going to look so good.
Sure, they are still making a lot of profit but that is on the back on existing products, not new innovative products. Apple can't milk its existing product line up forever. This is beginning to show.
Sure, they are still making a lot of profit but that is on the back on existing products, not new innovative products. Apple can't milk its existing product line up forever. This is beginning to show.
Then congrats. You know more than the three biggest tech companies in the world. Tell us again which company you own that has gotten it right?
Thanks,
By your logic everyone should be using Windows phone and Google glass, because, they are so smart, that they cant be wrong.
Maybe he's been reading Mac sites / lots of Apple experience for years prior to signing up?
"Join date" means jack ****.
Posting to MR is not going to help short Apple's share prices... MR is rather insignificant in that regard.
I would be pouring money into Apple right now if they updated their iMac with some really top notch specs and a redesign, a second gen iPad Pro with dedicated pro software and features!
I feel that annually updating macs with good solid updates and worthwhile features would make a lot of people happy.
I feel that annually updating macs with good solid updates and worthwhile features would make a lot of people happy.
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Good video but Tim isn't a salesman.
There are always exceptions - Sir Alan Sugar calls himself a 'salesman' but there again Amstrad is no more, so maybe not the best example.
Steve was a great business man and a natural at sales purely due to passion and belief.
If the iPhone vanished tomorrow Apple would instantly LOSE over 60% of its ENTIRE income! It would fall harder then the heaviest bomb from 80,000 feet! It would fail spectacularly.
Yep, I'm russian, but I know a lot about Apple and other gadgets
[doublepost=1480711335][/doublepost]I want to see powerful phone on sailfish system one day. Android will sucks
Sorry I didn't mean to be disrespectful, welcome to MacRumors I hope you stick around.
Greetings from the UK
Your right! We must be missing something, as it seems so simple to just upgrade the specs of the iMac, Mac Pro - yet they haven't :S
Apple has always made decisions for the customer in order to make their stuff easier and more fun to use. The difference —since Jobs died and Forstall left — is that those decisions are no longer great decisions. Instead of Apple's software and hardware being a series of delightful conveniences, Apple's decisions are often head-scratchingly bad. To their credit, many of the decisions get fixed after a year or two (iOS 10 is much better than iOS 7, and the current Apple Watch software is much less frustrating). However, many Apple users no longer feel the pleasant sensation of things just working.
Apple was once run by a visionary who could dictate what the customer wanted. Now it is run by an accountant without a clear vision but it is still trying to dictate to the customer. It does not work.
With that line of thinking, there is nothing they could do to get you to stop sucking up to them.
This actually kind of illustrates my point perfectly.
What I was trying to say, which got confused in the naming, is that the first Apple Watch is actually the series 0, the Series 1 is the new Apple Watch processor but same features as the old Series 0, and the Series 2 is the new Apple Watch processor with the new features.
Yeah. But Apple somehow thinks this won't confuse people.
Anybody who says "simplistic solution X is the future of complicated field Y" needs to be ignored.
The whole "Mobile is the future" thing was a useful distraction when the PC market started to mature & saturate - but it probably contributed to stagnation in the PC industry as development was funnelled into mobile (& MS made some major gaffes trying to turn windows into a mobile OS).
Mobile is already an important part of the present of computing and the main player seems to be the large-screen smartphone - however that market matured very quickly and is already pretty saturated with no obvious game-changers on the horizon - the size of the phone market was also inflated for years by the way mobile phone contracts worked, strongly incentivising people to upgrade every 18 months, something that seems to be declining. Tablet use - at least "pure" tablets - shows all the signs of having peaked already because the reality is that their usefulness is very constrained: they're not as portable as phones, they're ergonomically horrible as cameras or phones and they lack the large screens and proper keyboards of PCs.
Everything I see today suggests this: yes, those people who never really needed a computer can make do with a large-screen phone for communications and consumption, but anybody who ever does any serious writing, number crunching or other content creation uses mobile devices as companions to a half-decent laptop or desktop PC/Mac.
(ad break) "Hi, I'm a professional fashion photographer and I use an <i>insert phone brand</i> for all my photo shoots because <i>insert phone brand</i> paid me to - assuming I'm not an actor - and if you think this advert was shot and edited on a phone there's a bridge in Brooklyn you might like to buy..." (I assume that the on-screen text "sequence accelerated" bit means "we cut out the boring bit where the 4-man film crew came in and re-shot most of it with proper lenses, lights and sound gear").
The proper link to include for "universe of negativity ... becoming more noticeable" really ought to be forums.macrumors.com.
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You must have missed the many months leading up to the release of the iPhone 7.
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"Analyst" reads rumor websites, writes a summary to sell to his clients. Rumor websites publish announcement report from analyst as news article. Website audience feels vindicated, saying, "see, this is exactly what we've been saying!" Yep, it is.
I was here for those months, but I think the "hello again" event was worse.
Yes there was a lot of negative rumors about the iPhone 7, so when it came out, no one was surprised. With the "hello again" event, I think there was hope and a growing optimism on the forums, only to be let down hard. That is why I think the past month has been worse.
Plus, following the "hello again" event, there was article, after article of negative news about the new MBP. This just added to the "universe of negativity".