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iPhone 7 Plus Follow-up Images Reignite Smart Connector Rumors
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Lol please. Get over yourself. First off you have no clue how old I am. Second of all I find it more sad that some people can't get over the death of a CEO from 5 years ago and still haven't moved on. So sad and pathetic. But sure, keep dreaming about Steve, maybe you can resurrect him like Jesus!
I have a better idea of your age now.
Impromptu meetings? You mean casual chats at your desk or around the water cooler? Dude, I don't think you have a problem.
Change is coming my friend, time to embrace it.
You must feel so special and so witty.I have a better idea of your age now.
And what would Steve Jobs do? Bring back the 3.5" screen? Apple's model has historically not to invent new technologies but rather take other technologies out there and combine them in a superbly designed product. So I am wondering what technology is out there for smartphones that Steve would have made the next generation iPhone amazing? I think the problem is that the smartphone innovation cycle has peaked and now it is just time for minor improvements. The same thing happened with laptops even when Steve Jobs was alive. Might he have come up with a TV service or VR product if he were alive? Sure, but I doubt the iPhone 7 would be much different even if he were alive.
If it was possible to reach Steve Jobs with an Ouija board, I'm sure it would spell out a few expletives just going by the design of that Plus model. It's got Bender from Futurama peeking out the back of it.
Still gonna get it though...
Still gonna get it though...
And exactly how would you "guarantee" he has the last word lol... Just because he's CEO right? Big deduction. But apparently you agree he has no part of the creative process, has never ever professed direction or involvement in it... Right? So, if most of or a majority of STEVE JOBS creative team is still in place today - I think it's pretty fair to say that Tim Cook is NOT handling day to day creative development at Apple...
Man, give the guy credit that he's NOT out there saying that he is something clearly he is not. He is NOT Steve Jobs -- ne NEVER tries to "EMULATE" his legacy at all. He never selfishly takes credit for successes either.
And yea, AFTER Steve Jobs Apple has had some historic successes -- in fact -- under the guidance of nitwit Tim Cook. While I'm 30 year customer of Apple's and credit Steve Jobs for revolutionizing my own business and I owe him a lot of credit for growing the creative marketing industry -- Tim Cook in his own right deserves a ton of credit for building Apple in the behemoth it is today -- producing 250 million products a year lately (on average). This is a broken record but he also took the company to the TOP of the valuation market GLOBALLY, oversaw a supply chain that must be incredibly intricate and enormously stressful to manage - minute to minute.
When Steve Jobs was around Social Media was a new born baby. You and I have no idea where things at Apple may have gone if he was still around. What I do think is that he himself in no way could have "chaired" the company and somehow "managed" the historic, meteoric rise in product production and sales -- globally. No way. And no way could Apple have grown "out of" the great products under the Jobs era without the stewardship of Tim Cook. Sorry.
But.. does that mean some of the Jobs holdovers lack innovative experience of late? Yes, I think so. Should they make changes in senior management? I don't know. That's subjective because there is some legacy that still exists no matter how small it may seem.
Steve Jobs would work out what the next big thing is. The next iPhone, the next iPad. When was the last time Apple invented a problem that absolutely changed the world and the way we all live our lives?
Don't say Apple Watch cause I think I'll puke. I own one and this is in no way a world changing product.