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Eddy Cue: Best Product Pipeline in 25 Years Coming Later This Year From Apple

MacRumors said:
...Cue set a high bar for the remainder of this year:
"Later this year, we've got the best product pipeline that I've seen in my 25 years at Apple."
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Cue declined to elaborate on that pipeline, noting only that the products will unsurprisingly be "great".
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Hmmm,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Apple_Inc._products#2010s
2010: 15 (hardware) products
2011: 11 products
2012: 15 products
2013: 13 (+atv rev) products
2014: so far 1...

Productwise this has been worst year for Apple for ages.
But since iPhone is still yet to peak, they are not in a hurry. Maybe next year will be all time highest and then market is saturated. Two years for the next big thing...
 
numlock said:
im not forgetting anything. i didnt say the past was better for apple. i can however see how some would feel that any 3-4 years in the last decade before jobs died were more exciting or promising than the ones since but i suppose thats part of the rise to the top.

i certainly feel that as a company they are much more arrogant and less accommodating to us customers than before which is the reason i mentioned pages. you mention rosetta but they way users that prefer ios6 for instance are treated these days i doubt they would even offer a rosetta transitional phase these days.

however as i highlighted this current management ever since jobs died regularly talks about how promising and exciting the products around the corner are. first of all i dont recall jobs doing that, needing to do that and third its an invitation for criticism when those promises dont meet the expectations.

as oliversl says it would take an awful awful awful to be more impressive than the last 25 years.
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I don't see that you are remembering very much. Apple is no less "arrogant" or "accommodating" now than before. I just gave you three examples of Apple poking users in the eye from the Steve years. I can't say this happened more or less then than now. All I know is it has always happened. There was never any "transition" from Rosetta. One version of OSX it was there, the next it was gone. No warning whatsoever. Anyone who wasn't paying very close attention got burned.

The real irony here is that one of Steve's greatest skills was hyperbole. He was so good at flogging the product that many didn't even notice the extravagant claims that came along with every rollout. He was great at selling sizzle when he didn't have any steak, and lots of times he was selling some really thin steak. Did you love your Dalmatian iMac, or were you more of a Flower Power person? Just try to imagine the reaction if Tim Cook's Apple released a Flower Power iMac, or a G4 Cube. You have to know how many would say "this would never happen if Steve was alive." But of course, that's exactly what did happen when Steve was alive.

Expectations for Apple have always been over the moon, to the point of absurdity, and beyond. Steve was so good at making it look like Apple was delivering even when it wasn't, that trash journalists like Yukari Kane are able to write that Apple can't possibly be successful without their charismatic leader. Nobody even bothers to ask why Apple needs a charismatic leader to prosper, when no other company seems to need one. They just assume it's true, despite being ridiculous.

It's a huge double standard. I hope that over time people will begin to see it, get over it, and get real.
 
#TimMustGO

MH01 said:
Eddy, your full of ****.
Nothing you release this year will beat the release if the original IPod, iPhone and iPad.
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Yepperino.
On both things.

But this is to be expected when a wonderfully outside-the-box company like Apple
is suddenly taken over by a bean counter with all the charisma of oatmeal.

It looks like these scumbags couldn't wait until Steve died so they could all come slithering out of the woodwork.
Effing disgusting ....
 
#TimMustGO

acslater017 said:
Can't tell if you genuinely don't understand Cue's statement or you're just trolling.
The improvements to each product line, or introduction of new ones,
is going to be the strongest he's ever seen.
That's a VERY specific boast.
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Why don't I let a right-thinking person address this for me, hmm ...?

LordVic said:
... the 'masters' has been saying 'good things coming' for a couple years now.
... they've claimed a lot of things.

There haven't been great things.
there have been good products. Iterative updates and some good tweaking to existing products.
Aside from the niche Mac Pro, there has been nothing that most of us would claim were "great things".
Making something 1mm slimmer .... is not "the next great thing".
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Let's say Cue means the 2014 iPhone/Pad's CPU is 15% faster whereas
before the largest jump between iterations was, like, 10%.
That "specific boast", would be, strictly speaking, true: it is, "the stongest [jump] in 25 years."
But in terms of that "strongest [jump]" actually being a significantly game changing product
then, again, it's just publicity fluff nonsense.

Get it now?


Mildredop said:
Even though we all know Apple don't have "the best product pipeline in 25 years",
he's got to say it to keep the Apple PR wheels turning.
He doesn't care that he's lying.
And come December, we'll all have the proof he was lying.
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+10000000000000
 
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Arsenikdote said:
If you are some random person on the internet and desire it to be that way, why post at all? Does it make you feel good when people agree with you? Etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.
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I hope you weren't honestly expecting me to read all that?! (Because I didn't)
 
"Later this year, we've got the best product pipeline that I've seen in my 25 years at Apple."
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This is a quote I am going to try to remember as the year progresses. I'm curious to see how they top the iPhone, iPad and OS X with new or dramatically improved products.
 
do not forget that it is eddy cue who said it, and they are professionals in pr and hype making. but really people will not buy it if it is not good.
 
cube said:
It's time for the Woz vision now.
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I will never understand the persistence of geeky mewling over Wozniak. Hello? The man hasn't done a single thing of interest in over 30 years. Maybe he will have another vision before he dies, but I wouldn't spend any time waiting around for it.
 
IJ Reilly said:
I will never understand the persistence of geeky mewling over Wozniak. Hello? The man hasn't done a single thing of interest in over 30 years. Maybe he will have another vision before he dies, but I wouldn't spend any time waiting around for it.
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The original vision is good enough.
 
Things are definitely different without Steve Jobs, Apple needs someone like him to sell their products. I may be wrong but I really believe that the products are still going to be the same if Steve Jobs was around.

With all the iPhone leaks, it does not seem like it is the best product pipeline in 25 years, hope he is referring to iWatch.
 
I want to bump this thread because today was likely Apple's last product announcement of the year... so Eddy Cue was just lying to hype things up?
 
Eminemdrdre00 said:
I want to bump this thread because today was likely Apple's last product announcement of the year... so Eddy Cue was just lying to hype things up?
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There are three things in the pipeline that we haven't seen that were probably due to be released this year:

1) 12" retina Macbook Air w/ Broadwell
2) 12.9" iPad Pro
3) Vastly improved AppleTV

Even without those, though, this probably was Apple's greatest single year of new products so I think you're going to have to explain a bit rather than jumping to an unjustified conclusion.

Oh, and then there's Apple Watch. So arguably they have the best product in each of the hardware categories they currently compete in (save for two), and in 3-4 months they'll dominate/redefine what a "smartwatch" is. The only weak links are the aging Macbook Airs and AppleTV, and that will be rectified shortly.

Even more important than hardware, though, were the advancements in software. Yosemite is gorgeous and even more functional 10.9 and prior, and iOS 8 finally brings some much-needed advancements that iOS has been lacking for years.
 
There are rumors the iPad Pro Retina will have to be placed on the back burner in order to handle production demand for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+. So is the next Apple press event an announcement of the availability of Apple Watch, MacBook Air Retina, and improved AppleTV? If so, when does it occur?

Apple won't get me to bite on any of today's product announcements, though they would have had me with the MacBook Air Retina (with the rampant rumors for such clearly hurting existing MacBook Air sales, which leads everyone to believe it is a chip manufacturing issue).
 
Republius said:
There are rumors the iPad Pro Retina will have to be placed on the back burner in order to handle production demand for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+. So is the next Apple press event an announcement of the availability of Apple Watch, MacBook Air Retina, and improved AppleTV? If so, when does it occur?

Apple won't get me to bite on any of today's product announcements, though they would have had me with the MacBook Air Retina (with the rampant rumors for such clearly hurting existing MacBook Air sales, which leads everyone to believe it is a chip manufacturing issue).
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The Macbook Air retina has been held up by Broadwell's delay, which originally was supposed to launch in Q4 2014. The Apple Watch is confirmed to be early 2015, and I'd be surprised if the MBA retina doesn't come out shortly after Broadwell (probably Spring). They may just do a press event in Feb/March and launch the watch and announce the other two.
 
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