I often think Craig Federighi is the only one at Apple that gives a damn about making good stuff. He can't Make Apple Great Again on his own though.
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As opposed to posting in a fanboi echo chamber?
Yeah, being in a cult is MUCH better use of ones time.
You've got to be king of the Apple crybabies to go out of your way to change your signature to complain about them.
But....Tim Cook should be fired, Apple is doomed, Apple can't innovate, The iPhone 7 is garbage, the Touch Bar MacBook Pro will fail/is a gimmick...
But these negative forum members who fail to see beyond the one liner meme's disparaging against Apple, don't understand what it takes to produce the results Apple does on a daily basis. But hey, these same forum members can manage a 42 billion dollar company since they seem to know more than Tim Cook does. Wow.
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Keep in mind that Apple has agreements with all of the phone service providers. Not only do they get the price you pay or the phone, they also get a cut of your monthly fee to Verizon/AT&T/Sprint/T-Mobile (unless you go with the non-contract deal). Most of the other providers don't get that.
I'm surprised it wasn't more given Samsung's Note7 fiasco. These figures are rather disappointing.
Tim Cook's managing through a slower tech cycle is impressive. Despite what you may believe with the Greek epics about Steve Jobs, innovation is done throughout entire companies. It doesn't all come down from the very top. Apple's spending on R&D is higher than ever. We're just not there with the next wave of products yet. I'll grant you that Apple hasn't released an earth shaking new product in some time if you'll admit that no one else has either. VR is nascent, with no dedicated OS and no great social platform. AR's biggest champion is Microsoft with the HoloLens, and that blows the experience with a small floating viewport, like looking through a keyhole at a future that isn't here yet. Microsoft's Surface Studio is beautifully designed but it appeals to the same folks who have bought Wacom Cintiqs for 10 years (because it's essentially a Wacom Cintiq). The next wave of mainstream tech simply isn't ready yet. The only difference is that everyone else is beta testing publicly and Apple is beta testing privately. They're all showing off their batter and telling you that they've stolen the cookie crown from Apple.
Apple is not magical. They can not make new tech mature faster than humanly possible, but they are well positioned through their culture and through their war chest to execute on actual products.
Apple is not magical. They can not make new tech mature faster than humanly possible, but they are well positioned through their culture and through their war chest to execute on actual products.
But I thought Tim Cook was doomed as Apple CEO? Seems like he might be doing an ok job after all.
Tim is Apple's Steve Ballmer. During the Ballmer years Microsoft's profits continued to balloon, on the strength on windows and office. Of course they couldn't milk that cow forever, and once it started to decline they had nothing to replace it with. Hopefully Apple will not find itself on that position in a few years from now.
They do?
Is this just a US thing?
There are literally hundreds of mobile carriers around the world. I've never heard of this.
If true... I think it's funny that Apple sells a $700 phone... and needs to skim money each month from every carrier too.
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I wish Apple could take some of those billions and invest in something groundbreaking, like the Apollo program or the Manhattan project. Something that would allow us to get a technology 5-10 years earlier than expected.
Elon Musk is doing that all the time:
- Electric cars that are better than gasoline cars
- Solar panels that looks like ordinary roofs
- Self-driving cars
- Gigafactory
- Rockets that can reused by landing again
- Dragon, first commercially built and operated spacecraft
and he has a lot less money than Apple. Does Tim lack the vision or the strength to fight the shareholders that doesn't get it and only focus on profit next quarter.
Elon Musk is doing that all the time:
- Electric cars that are better than gasoline cars
- Solar panels that looks like ordinary roofs
- Self-driving cars
- Gigafactory
- Rockets that can reused by landing again
- Dragon, first commercially built and operated spacecraft
and he has a lot less money than Apple. Does Tim lack the vision or the strength to fight the shareholders that doesn't get it and only focus on profit next quarter.
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They're simply building brand value. Bumping up base 16GB to 32GB is not innovating or interesting and does not build any customer relationships. You're talking short game stuff but they're pulling in more customers than they know what to do with. Would you rather have them continue to build brand loyalty and grow customers or cater to the customers who got them here? They cannot do both without losing focus. I've been an Apple customer for 40+ years and am glad to see them evolving into a great brand with vision. All of their competition is just commoditized tech and moon shots that fail 95% of the time. We shall see where all the players falls 10 years from now but I'm not worried about Apple at all.
Musk and his companies relying on $4.9 Billion in government subsidies helps a lot.
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More profits with less sales. That's what every business wants.
This man must be really happy now.
Why would Carl Icahn be happy now?
More Apple profits. The company he famously wanted to buy as many shares of that he could to try to gather influence over Apple.
I still don't undaerstand. How will Apple profits make him happy? He dumped all of his AAPL shares.
Surprised my favorite non-apple smartphone Xiaomi aren't on the list they are also the 4th largest.
Perhaps they have spent a lot on R&D in the last 1/4.
Perhaps they have spent a lot on R&D in the last 1/4.
This means that Apple is sucking every penny out of their remaining customers.
Totally agree. Looks like accountants and designers have the say at Apple. Whereas engineers are only subordinate and have nothing to say.
AI and VR are the next big things. Apple can not be seen anywhere in the VR field and are more and more loosing ground in the AI field. Siri has been hardly getting better over time. Here even Amazon Alexa makes a better start than Siri did.
At the heart apple has always been a tech company. As Steve said: "At the crossroads of liberal arts and technology." Somehow I feel they are of track and the heart of technology is beating slower and slower.
I like how you said that..."I wish they would focus more on the raw tech". That's absolutely what they need to do but they are not.
Indeed! While the competition (like Samsung) are doing the opposite! Apple should learn a thing or 2 from Samsungs "lower priced" Galaxy line, or the much "lower priced" Google pixel!!
In reality spare is the BS! All companies do focus greatly on profits!
Well... if you want to judge the CEO of Apple about how much pressure he puts on suppliers to increase margin on a product someone had envisioned, uhmm.... yes.But I thought Tim Cook was doomed as Apple CEO? Seems like he might be doing an ok job after all.
More like a good COO to me.
