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Longtime Apple Board Member Bill Campbell Says Technology Coming to 'Intimate Objects'
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market creation is amazing. im not against that. without it, thered be no iphone, no ipod, no computers, no cars...
but lets be real. theres a difference between being bold and having bad business sense. youre not creating something revolutionary in moving quickbooks on a mac. its not a better experience, in fact, its a worse one, because not many other softwares exist on it.
diving into the mac platform makes no sense.
COMPLETELY different scenario as when Apple introduced the mac. it was by far the BEST computer with a GUI. there werent much of a market for it, but it was revolutionary and it offered a different, and better, experience than what is currently offered. it was a bold move. Same goes with the iPhone case
putting a lot of time, effort and money on quickbooks for mac, i argue, isn't bold, its stupid.
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Intuit is a corporation, nothing more
First, Bill isn't the CEO, Brad Smith is. And if you think Brad Smith is some kind of high-minded product design guy you are completely mistaken - he's completely about the bottom line and so reinvesting in a platform like Mac is just not going to happen given the numbers is has now and will likely have. Also, I've never heard of the Intuit board exerting any pressure whatsoever on the CEO, even if Bill did care.
Intuit has three things that make money:
1. merchant service where they're trying to fight Square and Paypal.
2. tax software where they lobby the government to prevent free tax software.
3. small business accounting where they try to get everyone to upgrade year after year and would rather have SaaS.
You'll notice that Quicken isn't on this list. It makes little money and the online team was fired when Intuit acquired Mint some years ago. It's basically on life support only (dev likely off-shored). For QuickBooks I think you have a decent chance of getting things on iOS, but the Mac customer base just isn't big enough.
Anyway, Intuit has some good products and good people, but they're just another corporation out to make a buck. You might be less frustrated with that expectation.
First, Bill isn't the CEO, Brad Smith is. And if you think Brad Smith is some kind of high-minded product design guy you are completely mistaken - he's completely about the bottom line and so reinvesting in a platform like Mac is just not going to happen given the numbers is has now and will likely have. Also, I've never heard of the Intuit board exerting any pressure whatsoever on the CEO, even if Bill did care.
Intuit has three things that make money:
1. merchant service where they're trying to fight Square and Paypal.
2. tax software where they lobby the government to prevent free tax software.
3. small business accounting where they try to get everyone to upgrade year after year and would rather have SaaS.
You'll notice that Quicken isn't on this list. It makes little money and the online team was fired when Intuit acquired Mint some years ago. It's basically on life support only (dev likely off-shored). For QuickBooks I think you have a decent chance of getting things on iOS, but the Mac customer base just isn't big enough.
Anyway, Intuit has some good products and good people, but they're just another corporation out to make a buck. You might be less frustrated with that expectation.
Funny. In the last few days I have found myself having conversations with people that own cell and or smart phones. They see that I am wearing a watch and they ask me for the time because it is easier than having to dig a phone out of their pocket or purse.
It seems to be that using an iPhone or other cell phone or iPod type device to check the time is more akin to a pocket watch and those ARE old fashioned. Personally, I don't wear watches anymore, but it's not because I wouldn't find one useful to glance the time rather than having to pull out an iPhone or the like, but because they bother my wrists. But the idea that only "dweebs" wear watches is one of the most childish things I've ever read. I mean seriously, are you like 12 years old or what (the what part meaning TROLL)?
I knew SOMEONE wouldn't be able to resist bashing Google Glass here on Macrumors.
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Why not? It's called not being a fanboy and being able to appreciate what other companies are doing to advance technology.
It takes humility to do something like that, something Apple employees and fanboys don't seem to be able to do IMO. I guess I should know what to expect when I browse macrumors. Apple fanboys who bash everything that aren't made by Apple.
If Apple were the ones releasing these glasses you'd be drooling over it like a brainwashed idiot, I guarantee you that.
I contrasted the apps that it has with the apps it should have. I couldn't care less about the company that made it. Google has translation services, OCR services, and maps services all available from their website. Google is the best positioned company in the world to make the perfect AR device.
They have totally failed. Rather than make an AR device, they made a monocol with a built in phone screen.
Disagree? Please explain anything this device will change about your life for the better out of the box.
I "bash" Apple's products when they're announced as well. If Google had made a praise worthy device, I'd be praising it. They didn't.
The irony that Intuit is on Apple's board, yet Intuit is well known for giving Apple users the finger when it comes to making their products available for Macs.
Clearly the corporate world execs are becoming a second government that makes the decisions of citizens on their own and is slowly gaining as much power, if not more power than our own government.
Watch out America.... corporations are our new lawmakers!
Clearly the corporate world execs are becoming a second government that makes the decisions of citizens on their own and is slowly gaining as much power, if not more power than our own government.
Watch out America.... corporations are our new lawmakers!
I agree and for this reason I wont get too excited about the future when it comes to these sort of things. Intstead of the future making us smarter and intelligent moreso its doing the opposite, its making junk more convenient while at the same time dumbing us down.
When I think Smart glasses I want to be able to hit a button and get terminator vision:
