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Apple's Renewed Focus on iPad Left the Mac Behind This Year
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Nope, Windows 10 is garbage, I'll take OS X over it, even on crap hardware...
Stockholders should crush Tim, Phil and the other hardcocks so hard that they walk home in their underwear, as they deserve. This complete set of overcapitalist, selfish, ignorant pranks not only letdown their customers, betrayed their visionary company founder, but effectively killed their own CPU business that was healthy and the best of its kind.
At a stretch, I can see Apple continuing only the iMac and MB + MBP.
The worst part about all this is that when Apple does come to end the Mac, they'll be too proud of themselves to admit that they fudged up. Oh no, it will be the fault of the consumer. "People are more invested in the iPad."
Calling it.
The worst part about all this is that when Apple does come to end the Mac, they'll be too proud of themselves to admit that they fudged up. Oh no, it will be the fault of the consumer. "People are more invested in the iPad."
Calling it.
I'm a life-long dual user. How is Windows 10 garbage? Its continual refinement seems to be going in absolutely the right direction for me. It's certainly far more intuitive than the current state of MacOS, and it's pretty ingenious how it's managing to cover the touch/mouse divide without too many sacrifices to either (as with the hot mess that was Windows 8).
I disagree. With the exception of the MBP (fiasco) and MacBooks, the title is sad but true.
Apple needs a Life Cycle Impulse program: Upgrade performance every second year, upgrade form factor every fourth year. Miniaturization of portable devices is understandable, but extending that to towers and desktops at-the-expense-of repairability, functionality, convenience, upgradeability, reliability and performance — in no particular order — is fundamentally wrong. Sales of Macs are down . . . is it any wonder why? My wallet’s been ready and waiting for four years and a leap day. And one last thing [drumroll please]: before they were put out of business, resellers were better at sales and support.
I've been running Windows 10 on my hackintosh for the past month or so and it's really not that bad. I wouldnt HATE IT going back to Windows if I had to, it's come a long ways since Windows XP when I switched over to my first Power Mac.
The UI is actually pretty good.
Tim Cooks analogy was ********: iPad + laptop is not merging a toaster and a refrigerator, it is merging a toaster and a microwave. You get the best of two useful things in one package.
It's instructive to compare the innovations of Jobs and Cook.
Hardware innovations under Jobs
iMac
iPod classic, nano, shuffle, touch
iPhone
iPad
Apple TV
Mac Pro
Mac Mini
eMac
Cinema Display
Time Capsule
AirPort Base Station
iSight
Software innovations under Jobs
OS X
iMovie
Keynote
Pages
Numbers
iPhoto
iTunes U
Final Cut Pro
Logic Pro
Garageband
Xcode
iMessage
Facetime
Dozens of built-in apps for OS X and iOS...
(a lot of these were under Scott Forstall)
And under Cook:
Hardware
Apple Watch
Touch Bar
Software
Photos
Music Memos
The more I think about it, the worse the situation is. Cook is incredibly unproductive. Thousands of employees. Billions spent on R&D. Nothing to show for it. He needs to get out of Apple as soon as possible before it's too late.
Hardware innovations under Jobs
iMac
iPod classic, nano, shuffle, touch
iPhone
iPad
Apple TV
Mac Pro
Mac Mini
eMac
Cinema Display
Time Capsule
AirPort Base Station
iSight
Software innovations under Jobs
OS X
iMovie
Keynote
Pages
Numbers
iPhoto
iTunes U
Final Cut Pro
Logic Pro
Garageband
Xcode
iMessage
Facetime
Dozens of built-in apps for OS X and iOS...
(a lot of these were under Scott Forstall)
And under Cook:
Hardware
Apple Watch
Touch Bar
Software
Photos
Music Memos
The more I think about it, the worse the situation is. Cook is incredibly unproductive. Thousands of employees. Billions spent on R&D. Nothing to show for it. He needs to get out of Apple as soon as possible before it's too late.
Apple need to refresh the Mac lineup, we get it. Personally I think it's a joke that the Mac Mini still ships with a 5400rpm hdd and I don't like the solder everything in strategy either, given that Apple promote themselves as the super green company of the future... I believe that they're rapidly becoming the Navy and not the Pirates they once were... A new progressive and innovative Captain is required...
It is truly astonishing and appalling and disgraceful that I can't buy a powerful modern computer from Apple in 2016. The Mac Pro is simply a ripoff at this point.
Apple is being looted by Wall Street via sleazy schemes like stock buybacks. Cook is slow-walking the once great company into a Sculley-like competitive crisis. He'll be forced to bow out after a few more years, a very rich man.
What happens then? Who picks up the pieces of whatever is left? Well, it's Apple, so maybe there's another miracle. Don't count on it, though.
My guess is that Apple died with SJ, my friends, and that it's all over but the heartbreak.
Apple is being looted by Wall Street via sleazy schemes like stock buybacks. Cook is slow-walking the once great company into a Sculley-like competitive crisis. He'll be forced to bow out after a few more years, a very rich man.
What happens then? Who picks up the pieces of whatever is left? Well, it's Apple, so maybe there's another miracle. Don't count on it, though.
My guess is that Apple died with SJ, my friends, and that it's all over but the heartbreak.
Don't forget to include "watch bands" under Tim!
"as Mac revenue has declined for four consecutive quarters year-over-year."
Of course it declines if your product is two years behind the competitors.
"Likewise, Cook said the iPad Pro is a notebook or desktop computer replacement for many people. "They will start using it and conclude they no longer need to use anything else, other than their phones," he added. "I think if you're looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore? No really, why would you buy one?""
WOW......Tim Cook is even more of an idiot than I thought he was and that's saying a lot.
This man has got to go before he completely ruins Apple!!!!!!
They have done NOTHING since Jobs died other than upgrade HIS products.
If that is true, where do they go from here? iPad has peaked and is now on the decline. iPhone has peaked (it will likely get a bump next year but the market is otherwise saturated). The Watch, while maybe not a bust, was certainly not the next great thing that Cook thought it was going to be.
While not "doomed", where is the growth in this company going to come from?
While not "doomed", where is the growth in this company going to come from?
I could substitute my Macbook Air with an iPad Pro if it had a file system, it could run Terminal, it could compile apps from the command line, and I didn't need obscure tricks via iTunes (hello? music shop for file transfer?) or iCloud for doing trivial copies of files among devices. If all that was true, I agree with it being an appealing alternative if you value lightness on your laptop.
But, running iOS, it's useless unless you don't use your computer for real computer work.
Oh, and of course, that wouldn't fix the urgent need for VR-class GPUs on the Mac. I invested $3000 on a PC box with a Pascal Titan X that I wished to invest on a Mac Pro. But there wasn't a Mac Pro with a comparable GPU, so I got the message that Apple didn't want my $3000 this time, and probably they won't anymore.
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Clearly this is because people don't want to buy Macs anymore. The iPad is where it's at now. Tim Cook was right.