I don’t think you understood that members post, As they alluded to products like the HomePod Mini Being a potential future Product, Thats hardly a ‘Niche’ category, considering they likely will offer a secondary version of the HomePod at some point. Not to mention, the HomePod is a completely _separate_ category for Apple and they still themselves are figuring out where the demographic is for this specific product and how it will expand.
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I don’t think you understood that members post, As they alluded to products like the HomePod Mini Being a potential future Product, Thats hardly a ‘Niche’ category, considering they likely will offer a secondary version of the HomePod at some point. Not to mention, the HomePod is a completely _separate_ category for Apple and they still themselves are figuring out where the demographic is for this specific product and how it will expand.
What apple does and has done eventually filters down to lower priced and more accessible product lines. The impact they’ve had on the music industry (for just one example) has affected more than just their direct customer base.
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Out of interest why do you say that?
Learn how to say "magical", "amazing" and "incredible" in a really believable way with a smile and and learn to love grey, lots of grey and you're half way there.
Once you have a family and your little daughter is waiting for you even if you work in the best company in the world and love what you do the priority is get home and enjoy time with the one you love.
I give 100% at work, many times I'm the last of the team to live but don't care about pizza night or meeting with colleagues on the weekend or after work.
It is great to have good relationships at office, but you never have to sacrifice your private life. It is great if you can hang out with your coworkers during the weekend because you share something (you go see a game, you both have kids that spend time together) but that isn't always the case.
If you're young and don't have a family is ok to spend time with coworkers, maybe you relocate and don't have friends so you try finding them among your coworkers, but I think it is better to have a broader set of relationships.
That's the difference between an hourly employee (justifiably expects OT) and a salaried employee where you are hired, and compensated to deal with project and time pressures. Not everyone is cut out for the pressure or wants to make that trade off of better compensation and more opportunities for increased expectations. It's also the difference between being the owner of a business and an employee. If you want to be able to leave the office when the clock strikes five every night, the high paced, high pressure environment of the tech world isn't the ideal environment.
Yes, and that's why they scrapped the iPhone SE -- the remaining products are far more acce$$ible.
A little melodramatic don’t you think? We have no idea what they’re planning. And as far as those ridiculous comments go, I reckon they pretty much nailed the iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and my MacBook is going strong after 4 years and not even close to be being replaced, like a PC Clone would be.
Half of their online activities is cross-subsidizing (Maps, Music, iCloud....), much from the desire to outpace Google (which will never work without the Google business model)
80% of their patents is never used and only meant to hamper competition.
Revolutionary products (that might disrupt the milking strategy) never see light - meaning many R&D billions get wasted.
Some lackluster Mac products only cost them money because nobody wants them (offering Tim a reason to get them discontinued)
Demographics show most of the globe can’t even afford their products.
K12, education efforts even in the rich West live from some (widely advertised) giveaways to institutions. The classroom apps have only costed money because no single school has an Apple infra anymore.
B-to-B initiatives, like the collaboration with IBM, brought in so little that there’s only startup loss.
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It's more that they are subsidised by hardware profits, but in a way, they also exist to help sell more hardware, so they kinda pay for themselves in a sense.
So?
It's more that the user base is simply too small. Case in point - the Mac Pro.
So? That over 80% of people around the world can't afford apple products means that over 10% can and do. Which works out to still be a very huge number in an absolute sense, when you consider how many people there are in the world.
As it is, Apple is already struggling to meet demand, so I am not too worried here.
Huh?
Not one of your more coherent posts, I am afraid.
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LOL ... should this sentence say 'The best haptic experts in the world are seated next to a bunch of guys who have PhD's in matieral science"?
British Guy with British accent who is knighted is having grammer issues? I must be mistaken of course.
The whole point of Apple “not spoiling money on niche categories” is ludicrous. Every company of a certain size does - in order to maintain their environment or ecosystem. In many area’s and countries they are a niche player - partly due to lower living standards, in some area’s to their own arrogance and lackluster innovation. In B-to-B by lack of follow-up on collaboration with e.g. IBM.
Your “Huh/Duh?”- type of arguing doesn’t change that.
The problem is they pretend not to, supported by their appeasers that want to overshadow everything with the financial success in a single product category.
How successful they are, it doesn’t compensate for their lost disruptive capabilities, meaning that every dollar that went into AppleCar - by the lack of a disruptive strategy and the lost competitive edge in autopilot technology - seems to have been at loss.
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You mean how like how the Apple Watch was initially dismissed as being too little, too late, only to go on to be the only smartwatch which matters today?
You mean like how the Amazon Echo was one touted as the next big thing in UI (basically because Apple had no leg in the race), only to be barely mentioned these days because it's clear that it wasn't the computing paradigm everyone made it out to be?
I find it comically ironic when people say Apple "needs to" do something like this or it’s "not innovating anymore" but then it turns out the result isn’t something most people end up wanting.
What critics like yourself fail to take into account is Apple's ability to rethink the whole user experience and make people question what is truly necessary in a product, much less Apple's ability to control both the hardware and software layer. By the time Apple's self-driving car plans do come to fruition, neither one of us might still be frequenting this forum, or even be all that interested in Apple-related news anymore, but I will say what I always say:
One bets against Apple to their own detriment.
For all the complaints of 'too thin' (some of which I agree with) A huge part of the 'magic' of Apple is this guy's designs. Even today, other companies can create nice, solid metal products and they still don't look as balanced and sleek as what Apple's been putting out for over 10 years!
In Scandinavia, to a large extent it isn't. Generally speaking overtime is not considered a virtuous signal of how dedicated an employee is, rather you'll be berated by your manager for not managing your time properly. Obviously this varies from job to job and person to person, but don't be under any illusion that 'staying on' is universally considered a sign of professionalism.
At some point, perhaps years perhaps decades later, you will find yourself on the outside of the company unless you manage to get into the upper reaches of management, and when that happens the company gets bored with you.
You said it yourself. In my instance, I was talking about situations when what you do is driven by passion and not by your manager bullying you.
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Obviously, I would not expect a company I have worked for to babysit me. I have got paid off what I have worked for and (assuming) I have enjoyed doing what I have been doing. You guys seem to forget that jobs that people love to do, do exist.
iPhones have been getting thicker for a while. The iPhone 6 was probably peak thinness and lightness - they've been getting bigger, thicker, and heavier since then.
Having the power to run those complex apps means that the Watch is bigger and has shorter battery life. A simpler, more focused device could be smaller, lighter, more elegant, and have a battery that lasts a week!
I doubt that I'm unique in all the world, and I'm not sure you speak for "everyone", Steve121178! Clearly a lot of people do want this type of device, given the popularity of Fitbit. I believe Apple could do a Fitbit-like device better than Fitbit do. An Apple Watch mini?
