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Live: Tim Cook's Interview at D11 Conference
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Those interviewers are awful. I'm truly surprised that woman hasn't been fired yet. I can't say I've heard her ask one intelligent question. She usually interjects odd comments at poor times.
Granted, I give you that: there seems to be an emphasis on a product-oriented strategy, which is good news.
But I've been frustrated by the latest ... products precisely.
Right now, I can't see myself starting to save money in order to buy anything, except maybe a Mini or a MacBookPro non-retina, which is rumored to disappear soon..
The trend is: higher and higher prices, fewer ports, less and less customization, degradation of hardware quality that doesn't justify a 5 year investment like before (from an individual point of view).
I certainly hope the 2013 releases will prove me wrong.
I would have asked: How is having 800,000 applications in iTunes in a clumsy, non-sortable format more helpful for consumers finding information than Google search? How many of those applications are junk hiding what's actually valuable? Why value a number over an integrated experience?
Kara: But there still is a sense, and Wall Street is sensitive to this, that's there's been an unprecedented downfall of the stock. And you have competent rivals now.
I would have asked: You have peaked in popularity because of something good you did a long time ago. The wave is at its peak, but your software quality has gone way downhill. What happened to making the world's greatest desktop OS? I would list all the bugs with Lion/Mountain Lion and even reproduce big ones on stage in front of him. And then asked for a response.
THIS.
Apple is offering iCloud app to Windows Vista, but not for Snow Leopard!
(Yes, I'm still using 10.6 with my macs...)
Right question would have been: "Should Apple support their own OSes with iCloud?"
Customers are looking at reflectivity and that's why Apple is not offering matte screens in any of their newer products?
"75% less reflectivity, but still 10 times more than with real matte screen."
I have to laugh at the people that still don't understand why there is no iCloud for Snow Leopard.
There is no reason why you need to be using Snow Leopard. There is no reason you should WANT to. iCloud and Lion are inseparable. I don't think some people have any concept of how tightly integrated Lion and now Moutain Lion are with iCloud.
Yeah let's rebuild Snow Leopard so it can support iCloud... considering that is basically WHAT WE DID WHEN WE MADE LION!!!
Unreal. These are the people that think "iCloud is an App or something."
There is no reason why you need to be using Snow Leopard. There is no reason you should WANT to. iCloud and Lion are inseparable. I don't think some people have any concept of how tightly integrated Lion and now Moutain Lion are with iCloud.
Yeah let's rebuild Snow Leopard so it can support iCloud... considering that is basically WHAT WE DID WHEN WE MADE LION!!!
Unreal. These are the people that think "iCloud is an App or something."
You don't know that Apple does not sell Lion anymore and there's lots of macs that can't use ML?
Why there is lots of reason to still use Vista, but not to use SL? Which is better?
Every machine made to run vista can run win7. Not the same with 10.6/7/8.
Lots of people use the OS they have because changing it wouldn't be worth the hassle.
The plain reason for Apple not to offer iCloud to SL is just to sell you a new OS. Same reason why they stopped selling Lion. To sell new macs. They could have written version of ML, which boots from 32-bit EFI, but suddenly they were out of resources...
Btw, I'm talking about app for iCloud. I'm using iCloud with my iOS devices, but it is PITA that I can't use it with my macs. Maybe I'll buy 10.9 just for one of them...
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Did you notice the timing of the hiring? only one week after the committee senate hearing? coincidence i think not. Basically a political pay off so apple wont get dragged into another stupid but embarassing senate subcommittee hearing. Jackson was fired over ethics and incompetence, and having a tough time finding a new job, so the administration leaned the senate dems to put the screws on apple to start hiring their buddies. This has nothing to do with taxes or environment. its just yet another government shakedown. It's goes on all the time in DC.
And Jackson may have an engineering degree but she hasn't used it in 30 years. She is just a middle manager beaurocrat and political hack. It's actually pretty smart move on Cooks part, a small "tax" to pay to avoid more questions on its taxes. I promise you will never see apple in front of max baucus again.
This is ignorance beyond belief.
You simply don't understand.
Lion/ML = iCloud
iCloud = Lion/ML
They didn't just build a new OS and then throw iCloud in. That's not how it works. Lion and Mountain Lion were designed around iCloud from the beginning. As I said, they are inseparable, and the core services are built into the OS.
It isn't possible, or reasonable, to think Apple would ever have built iCloud into Snow Leopard. Forget selling you a new OS or a new Mac. That logic is totally misplaced here. Its about the OS itself. There would be NO reason imaginable and NO financial benefit to re-build Snow Leopard from the ground up to incorporate iCloud.....rebuilding OS X from the ground up to incorporate iCloud is EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID WHEN MAKING LION. Among other things, THAT IS WHAT LION IS.