what like BBC Radio 1? The most listened to station in the Uk... oh..
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Beats 1 Lead Executive Ian Rogers Leaves Apple
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Maybe the people there are doing what they want to do.
You make it sound like they're all stuck in a dead end 9-5 job.
This guy always struck me as being really damn hot.
That's my contribution to this.
That's my contribution to this.
Sorry, the iPhone 6 (and 4)are the best iPhones Apple has made. Can't speak to the watch-maybe it's the next Newton, or maybe not...doubt other smartwatches are doing much better.Jobs gets credit for Apple's financial situation. The bean counter CEO's been phoning it in, letting Ive run rampant with designs (iPhone 6) and ideas (Apple Watch) that shouldn't have ever left the lab. The Apple gravy train is on its last legs, time to cash out and find something worthwhile to do. At least one ex-Beats employee realizes it.
More to follow.
Then you don't listen to Beats 1. I do, a lot. Beats 1 isn't a genre defined radio station like a US commercial radio station, it is much more akin to a college or public radio station like KCRW. The individual shows define different styles of music and all of them can exhibit a certain eclecticism. In the long-run I imagine they'll add stations and programs to accommodate an even wider range. The best part of this version of the show-based radio station is it can be listened to on or offline in whole or in part. It was always frustrating in the past to hear something you liked, but missed Shazaming it, catching the name, or not wanting to buy yet another single track. Now you can have it all.
The services at Apple are all quite good. There are certainly some shortcomings that I would like to see addressed, although in fairness the current issues with Apple Music is purely interface related and will be corrected over time, but to suggest Eddie Cue should be shown the door ignores the fact that senior staff at Apple think he's great and that the services have improved massively since around iOS 7's launch. Today, you can say, I prefer Brand-X over Apple's offering, but you can't say it doesn't work or isn't good enough for most customers.
Nothing about Beats 1 is like a college radio station. Not at all. And no one station is going to suit the masses. College radio doesn't try to do that. They hone in on their college audience. Apple wants to be everything to everyone and what they ended up with was nothing. But that's typical of their services.
It's possibly health related. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ian pass out at Beats 1 Radio last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
That would actually be Radio 2, with a Listening Share of 17.6%, according to Rajar (The industry body that monitors listening trends in the UK). For those outside the UK, BBC Radio 2 is a station that's pretty much targetted at people over the age of around 25. Radio 1 gets a Listening Share of 6.4%. It's even beaten by Radio 4 (11.7%), which is Auntie's speech radio station that does news, current affairs, drama, magazine programmes, and comedy, including the magnificent I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Agree with you on the 4. The guts of the 6 are good (minus the RAM) but the exterior is hideous.
Google the new Huawei smartwatch. It will probably fail because they skimped on materials or quality, or because it'll get lost in the Android world. But I tell ya... THAT is what I expect a smartwatch to look like. Don't care if round screens aren't "functional" enough. A smartwatch should be first and foremost, a nice piece of jewelry to wear. Functionality is second. Apple really missed the ball with their geeky calculator watch shaped rectangle.
I really hope this means that Apple Music will go in a new direction because right now I am seriously considering going back to Spotify. For example I am not aware of a way I can share a link to one of my playlists through Safari so that my friends can subscribe to my playlists. That's how I shared and discovered most of my playlists on Spotify, on the web
Agree on the guts of the 6 (and RAM), but I like the bigger screen space and personally love the exterior but that sort of thing is always somewhat subjective.
If this is the Huawei smartwatch:
http://consumer.huawei.com/minisite/worldwide/huawei-watch/index.htm
Just wow!
Tim learned everything Apple from Steve. He doesn't get credit for being a great CEO by "not rocking the boat" and continuing to do the same successful things Apple learned to do under Steve. Keeping "business as usual" is barely one step above failure in my book. Because it doesn't inspire and doesn't guarantee a successful future. Being a failure of a CEO like Ballmer should not be the stick you're meauring for comparison with.
Maybe you enjoy insulting every forumer on this board, but I'd be willing to give at least a few of them a shot at running Apple. The ideas I hear here always meet or exceed every real world product Apple releases these days.
I agree the larger screen is good.
YES, that's it!! It's the first design I've seen that would make me, a non-watch wearer, consider one.
There's no "intrigue" behind it at all. He was the CEO of an acquired company. Apple already has a CEO.
I think the comment was in referance to Cook. If so, I agree with that.
Beats is in trouble.
I give it 2-4 years until the iPhone market peaks and Apple's share tank.Jobs gets credit for Apple's financial situation. The bean counter CEO's been phoning it in, letting Ive run rampant with designs (iPhone 6) and ideas (Apple Watch) that shouldn't have ever left the lab. The Apple gravy train is on its last legs, time to cash out and find something worthwhile to do. At least one ex-Beats employee realizes it.
More to follow.
No.
You think Apple needed Beats for streaming service? Get real.
Apple bought Beats because of wearables. They banked on the beats marketing team making the Apple Watch a success as evident by all the celebs wearing AW when it launched.
In truth Beats was a worse purchase for Apple than Moto was for Google.
I was actually thinking about this.
Tim Cook and Apple are very much like Microsoft and Steve Ballmer. No matter how nice and warmhearted Cook may be, the fact is he has absolutely no sense of taste just like Ballmer and completely unlike Jobs.
I have a feeling that if SJ saw the Apple of today he would have put Forstall in charge of CEO instead of Cook.
Many people here are overly judgmental as if they could do far better. Saying that I don't think anyone here could do half Cook's job isn't "insulting" people. Oy vey.
And for the record, I've been using Apple products exclusively for over 17 years and I can tell you first hand that Jobs was FAR FROM PERFECT. And about Emballmer, I brought him up as a counterpoint to your post. Bill Gates built Microsoft to be the success that it was. Emballmer worked alongside Gates from nearly the start. So if anyone learned how to run Microsoft properly after Gates stepped down you would think Emballmer would right? NO. He screwed up Microsoft so badly the new CEO is doing everything to get the company out of the hole that was dug.
A current CEO "Learning" from the former successful CEO doesn't mean the successor CEO will persevere. Emballmer is living proof.
I thought the facts surrounding the Martian market were supposed to be top secret, guarded by Hillary...
Indeed!!.... I went over to have a good laugh...
But... THAT looks far more what I expected Apple would have come up with!!
Don't know how well they work, but they look great!