I miss Steve Jobs.
I'm tired of Apple releasing half-baked beta versions.
I'm tired of Apple trying, like Google and Samsung, to attract customers with unnecessary features like background removal from photos.
I'm tired of Tim Cook announcing things just days before any official release.
Where's the old, good Apple?
As others have remarked, the online world has changed enormously since the death of Steve Jobs.
As has Apple.
It is no longer a niche company that designs stunning computers that represented a perfect fusion of form and function, and were cutting edge and utterly transformational (I still remember, my delighted, stunned and awed reaction when Steve Jobs slowly removed the very first MBA from an A4 envelope - which was an immediate, almost visceral internal cry of: "I want that"), but a global commercial giant, with an income that dwarfs that of most countries, and which, as
@ResPublica correctly points out, below, derives much, if not most, of its income and profit from iPhones, apps, and other services, and not computers.
These days, computers are something of an optional extra - a luxury which is no longer necessary to the company's image or profits, an unnecessary after-thought - and therefore, there is no compelling need to devote energy, resources, and time to devising technologically transformative new computers.
Moreover, the profile presented by a global giant with a global reach - and the commercial imperatives that govern this - are quite different from those of a niche company that produces attractive, stylish, and beautifully designed computers.
Now, personally, yes, I, too, preferred it when Apple was a niche company, but that is no longer the case.
Steve Jobs died almost 15 years ago. I think that the computer industry we have now is just a different beast than back then.
Agree completely.
The 'magic' of the early internet and the clumsy but charming 2000s are no longer there.
Again, agreed.
The Macs have never been better (and neither have Apple's finances), but the Mac has also become somewhat of an afterthought for Apple.
Exactly.
Their real profit lies in iPhones, apps and services. The gadget and hardware-focussed approach of Jobs is not really that relevant anymore. And objectively, Apple and Tim Cook did very well even without him.
Agreed.
