Maybe you should read the story, it clearly wasn't in Tim's fictional pipeline. They finally saw pros leaving and are trying to fix it. This is a response to a failure, not a planned product. Man you really are Tim's biggest fan. He could take a leak on you, tell you it's raining, and you would tell everyone how wonderful the rain feels! Geez!
If I'm Tims biggest fan you are his biggest anti-fan? Tim could serve you Apple on a 5 star platter and you would complain about the quality of the food.
Tim's strategy is pretty simple. Keep things stale for years on end while the competition innovates and comes out with new features. Then once he has milked the existing features to death and sales start flatlining he will finally take a look at the competition copy heir features and suddenly everyone goes crazy over the iPhone super cycle when in reality it's a few years of pent up demand exploding at one time. It happened with the iPhone 6 and it's going to happen with the iPhone 8. Now once 8 is out it's time to sleep on till Android comes out with foldable displays and features like Dex and then copy em sometime in 2021.
It's a "simple" strategy that netted them 75b last quarter. Some customers are buying their products. even when jobs didn't see the future of bigger phones Timmy released the iPhone 6, which as we know made Apple the most valuable company and was a block buster success.
Amd once again you deflect to sales. They are not a mark of how innovative a company is by the way. Samsung is he only relevant manufacturer on Android which makes money but there are tons of other OeMs who are more innovative than Samsung.
It does not. It does not at all. They explained that the Mac Pro was a mistake and not designed for its audience. But whatever dude. You just like the sound of your own voice and fighting for the sake of fighting. Have fun fighting with everyone.
And once again you fail to understand that sales and revenue is the final arbiter of who stays and who goes. The iPhone 6 maybe would have come out of any CEO, except jobs who missed it similar to the iPad mess he created. There is no standard on phone size like there is no standard in engine size. You can't copy a box.
Wow, pot kettle thing. Doesn't seem like your opinion is the last word on anything.
Couldn't have said it better. Spot on.
iPhone SE is a 5 year old design. iPhone 5 was released in 2012, the same thing is still on the shelf as iPhone SE in 2017. The Apple company has killed and will continue to kill creative individuals through its management's stupidity.
iPhone 6 was released Sept 14th 2014. Sept 14th 2017 would make it 3 years old.
Apple doesn't seem to think it's embarrassing, given the phones have sold.
What's dwarfed? Revenue and profits? Because in the end that's what counts. And who is to say any one strategy will be better or worse. It seems they are giving who Apple deems the customer base products that are selling, even if you or I don't agree with their strategy.
Your point is invalid. You can't copy a rectangular shaped object.
For 4 years Apple was mocking large screens on Android making a point of how you can't hold them with one hand and blah blah blah. Once the pressure built high enough they copied their Android equivalents with their large screens just like how they are copying their Android competition right now by removing the bezels.
This still means they copied Android as the idea was sourced with Android.
Yes, jobs was mocking large screen phones else he would have done one.
Apple listens to their customers.
No it means Apple listened to their customers.
Revisionist history.
Not doing it for Timmy, doing it for Apple and he missed it big time.
And he did starting from the 5s.
Timmy made the iPhone bigger figuratively and financially. Jobs wasn't perfect but bringing Timmy aboard was a good thing, iPads not so much.
