Not "on that", but I can definitely grab a docking station or an HDMI cable + dongle and cast it to a larger monitor, effectively making the phone a daily driver.
I personally don't like that option, but hey, it's a possibility.
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I personally don't like that option, but hey, it's a possibility.
Apple is a great company and Cook is an outstanding leader. Apple's massive success and roughly a billion active customers, many repeat, speaks for itself.
As do Apple's 170,000 employees who were not subject to massive layoffs as so many other tech companies were (which is *still* happening). Many people conveniently forget Cook also holds an engineering degree in addition to his MBA. Is Cook a coder, or chip designer? Nope. But he certainly understands tapping new markets and technology.
The point is you probably care if the screen you are casting to in that case is dirty way more that if the screen on the phone you are casting from is dirty.
From what I know, Apple and MS copied (or as you said, ripped) from Xerox. But at the end, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates took those ideas to another level. Thats the reason macOS and Windows still dominating the computer market.
Regarding his health expertise, I have don't have any idea of it, neither I care.
I'm... not sure I get your point?
If I'm giving a presentation to 40+ people, I'm probably casting my cell phone to a TV, which probably will be a non-touch device.
But if even so the screen is dirty, I can just... you know, wipe it with 100% cloth fabric?
I’d say 99.999%. Unfortunately I can’t run that tentpole GameCube game, Resident Evil 4. 😉
You can, if you run Moonlight.
Just stream the game to your iPad and you'll control it remotely.
It's like a personal cloud.
So you refuse to actively consider my comments and instead choose to double down on your original statement and add a bunch of irrelevant nonsense to boot?
I don’t have a specific candidate in mind but that isn’t the point. The point is that Tim Cook is not especially interested in design and innovation.
I didn’t claim Apple had experienced a demise. I said that under Cook innovation has clearly not been a priority. And again, Ive is an example of why this comment is accurate.
Not relevant. The point is that Apple, a design focused company, has failed to include a top flight designer in their leadership.
The point. Your response to eropko conflated laptop devices with handheld devices.
Valid statement. Now north of 50, I have to be mindful where I spend as Father Time knocks louder. Plus, what I have works. Just a scrub having fun.
Of course it hasn't been a priority. During the pandemic and resulting economic downturn, Cook's number one priority was keeping Apple's 160,000 employees employed, while just about every other large tech company was laying off many thousands of employees.
That said, AVP certainly qualifies as an innovative product. At least for those who understand the difference between VR and AR/XR (many here don't) and understand the markets and potential.
With respect to recent times, I'd also include iPhone now incorporating worldwide SOS emergency communications using a satellite network, which has already saved lives of Apple iPhone owners.
Many here sling the word innovation around without even being able muster up even a wee bit of imagination suggesting what that could possibly be. Other than something mice-nuts and lame that Apple has already considered and decided to not pursue, such as MacOS running on an iPad.
Perhaps you can come up with a half dozen truly innovative product ideas that would be worth a large investment in both $ and Apple resources? Should be easy, right?
The pandemic has only been around for a small part of Cook’s tenure. That isn’t a rebuttal. Cook clearly doesn’t prioritize design and innovation.
As far as the Vision Pro goes, no, it’s not especially innovative. If anything it appears to be headed for Newton status.
Yeah that was just too many words to get lost in, wasn't it? My mistake, I should have drawn you an accompanying diagram, maybe with crayons, or put it in meme format.
TIM CUKE = OK
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ABBLE BRODUCS = CUD BE BETTA
CONKLOOZUN: GIT PRODUKT GUY PLOX KTHXBYE
Better?
During his tenure, apple launched the watch, AirPods, its own chipset, and a $85B (ttm) services business.
While you speak mostly about, and in favour of CEO responsibilities to shareholders, I’m about a CEO responsibility to consumer, who are the ones who enable the value in the first place. And, forget about niche features; no one is talking about that. You’re bringing that up to justify your position.
Not relevant to you, but to those bemoaning Ive's departure. I personally miss Evans Hankey most. But please do tell us about a relevant top flight designer that can innovate Apple's hardware?
👍👍. I have 4, two of whom got/are getting phones this year and their own SIM cards. First got my 12 Mini, second gets the SE I’m currently using when my 15PM arrives. Next one is 4 years away, so I’m aiming for 4-5 years with the 15PM.
We see how their design division is structured now. They design by committee. There is no single visionary behind the overall direction of the software or hardware. That’s a problem.
You'll likely hear crickets on that. Or some hand-waving obfuscation about how design is structured at Apple (despite having zero demonstrable inside knowledge).
It's kind of like the hackneyed and tired (and apparently crowd-pleasing) whine "Apple doesn't innovate anymore." Yet when asked for a handful of innovation suggestions it's crickets again. Or maybe something lame, and hardly innovative, like simply porting MacOS to iPad, which Apple considered and rejected long ago.
In the end it's Apple's roughly 1 Billion active customers, many repeat, that speaks to Apple's massive success and with that, the ability to innovate (causing customers to keep purchasing Apple products - year after year after year). That massive success apparently irritates some people - which is pretty silly. And also speaks volumes.
I'm in two minds about this, because I believe Apple (the hardware company) has been incredibly innovative, while Apple (the software company) has been rather stale and stagnant and Apple (the services company) produces good but often mediocre products that mostly sell because of how deeply they integrate into Apple products.
The M series computers are fantastic, all things considered. The power, the power draw, the battery life etc feel unmatched at the moment. Macs have always been expensive, but my first iBook G4 cost more in absolute numbers than the M1 MBA I currently have and this doesn't even account for inflation, let alone the relative power differential between the two machines. Besides, think tablets, phones, watches or now the AVP -- Apple's hardware is usually among the best money can buy.
But, as an average consumer it increasingly feels like there's few things on the software side to actually take advantage of the power. Going back to my first iBook, moving from Windows 2000/XP to Mac OS X felt mind blowing in a way that just isn't true for Windows 10/11. The G4 was way underpowered compared to what I could have gotten in Wintel land, but it felt worth it because the software was just so much better. I now have to use Windows for work almost every day and, you know what, in some ways it's better than MacOS, in others worse, but overall it feels like a draw at best.
The iPad, equally, could be so much more, but Apple is holding itself back because why sell you one great new innovative products if they can sell you two iteratively slightly better ones.
The iPhone is becoming bigger and stronger every year, while also getting more emojis. Android is not for me, but I find the smart stuff Google is trying with photos and call assistant way more interesting than many things Apple has released recently.
I'm not predicting Apple's imminent doom btw, but to someone with modest hardware requirements the lack of innovation in the software space does stick out.
The M series computers are fantastic, all things considered. The power, the power draw, the battery life etc feel unmatched at the moment. Macs have always been expensive, but my first iBook G4 cost more in absolute numbers than the M1 MBA I currently have and this doesn't even account for inflation, let alone the relative power differential between the two machines. Besides, think tablets, phones, watches or now the AVP -- Apple's hardware is usually among the best money can buy.
But, as an average consumer it increasingly feels like there's few things on the software side to actually take advantage of the power. Going back to my first iBook, moving from Windows 2000/XP to Mac OS X felt mind blowing in a way that just isn't true for Windows 10/11. The G4 was way underpowered compared to what I could have gotten in Wintel land, but it felt worth it because the software was just so much better. I now have to use Windows for work almost every day and, you know what, in some ways it's better than MacOS, in others worse, but overall it feels like a draw at best.
The iPad, equally, could be so much more, but Apple is holding itself back because why sell you one great new innovative products if they can sell you two iteratively slightly better ones.
The iPhone is becoming bigger and stronger every year, while also getting more emojis. Android is not for me, but I find the smart stuff Google is trying with photos and call assistant way more interesting than many things Apple has released recently.
I'm not predicting Apple's imminent doom btw, but to someone with modest hardware requirements the lack of innovation in the software space does stick out.