Without the notch the iPhone will look like every other characterless android. Where one has to figure out up from down...except Samsung which has an off center hole to cue one. At any rate the iPhone 12 will have a notch.
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New Report Outlines Potential Successors to Apple's CEO Tim Cook and Other Senior Executives
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I doubt anyone in Wall Street would agree with this sentiment. Cook and co. have deliberately and successfully moved Apple’s revenue stream away from the risky “blockbuster” product. Apple, perhaps more than any tech company, has put lightning in a bottle several times, but that’s not what you want to bet the farm on if you’re an investor.
You know, history repeats. Does anyone remember Steve Jobs in 1995?
Lets remember his words:
What ruined Apple wasn’t growth … They got very greedy. Instead of following the original trajectory of the original vision, which was to make the thing an appliance and get this out there to as many people as possible, they went for profits. They made outlandish profits for about four years… What that cost them was their future. What they should have been doing is making rational profits and going for market share.
Hey Apple, rational profits? iOS marketshare? New products? Extremly greedy with the AppStore?
Hopefully the transition to a new CEO will be smoother than Tim's. I remember there weren't any product refreshes on Mac mini, Mac Pro for the longest time, then the awful MBP keyboard. I actually bought two PCs during this time and started my exit strategy from the Apple ecosystem. I' was relieved when they got the ball rolling, started catering to the Pro customers, and as a result I starting buying Apple products again.
Tim is good for privacy.., and that may be Apple’s key advantage going forward while the stage is slowly set for another round of truly innovative products.
Apple’s social media platform was a flop because it focused on their music success. However a mashed up Apple version of current social media offerings focused on privacy would be terrific.
Creating social media where the customer is no longer the product could be amazing innovation. That is what Apple has done well with iPhone, Music, TV (tbd). Take a stagnant business model where the customer isn’t the focus and help it evolve.
No one here wants a stagnant Apple of the sort Steve Jobs had to resurrect. And profits mean the ability to fund innovation at a higher level. I think those who simply point to 2T miss the historical lessons of being too safe and focused on simply tweaking revenues. The saga of the American auto industry in the late 70s- early 80s comes to mind. Behemoths who eventually got kicked in the knees by foreign upstarts who disrupted and fed the market what it wanted - and for probably for many in that market, what they never knew they wanted. “Wow, I can drive 100 miles without filling up, parking nice when your car is not a land yacht, and reliability kinda nice too!” There were other factors, but the Japanese automakers were like the Apple that made that iconic 1984 ad and disrupted the computer industry.
So it’s not being some hysterical chicken little to worry about future ( and current)Apple leadership becoming too conservative or myopically focused on revenue. The market often overly rewards short term profits as opposed to long term growth and innovation, and it’s a real trap companies can fall into. Of course, I also sold my Apple stock a few years ago to get what in retrospect was a short term profit. 😆 😢
Likewise, you gotta make money to exist. Under Tim, Apple is still making innovative products the market wants and developing new ones. That may come down to which segments of the product line or services you are looking at, but Apple is not some Dell clone even if it’s not the Apple of yore.
That Apple ain’t coming back imho, so pining for it - no matter how fun it was to experience - will only lead to heartache.
And again, profits fund research that can innovate. Tim et. Al. have certainly grown the Apple piggy bank. A piggy bank that can fund R&D towards developing amazing stuff. Not giving credit to Tim Cook for that, as well as where he has pushed Apple into new realms (Ie - Apple Watch, services that people clearly value) is simply unfair and absurd, no matter what criticism you may have for him.
I want to see Apple actively balancing risk taking with caution and “bean counting”. I want to see what mgmt TEAM emerges after a Tim Cook departure, not just who is CEO.
So it’s not being some hysterical chicken little to worry about future ( and current)Apple leadership becoming too conservative or myopically focused on revenue. The market often overly rewards short term profits as opposed to long term growth and innovation, and it’s a real trap companies can fall into. Of course, I also sold my Apple stock a few years ago to get what in retrospect was a short term profit. 😆 😢
Likewise, you gotta make money to exist. Under Tim, Apple is still making innovative products the market wants and developing new ones. That may come down to which segments of the product line or services you are looking at, but Apple is not some Dell clone even if it’s not the Apple of yore.
That Apple ain’t coming back imho, so pining for it - no matter how fun it was to experience - will only lead to heartache.
And again, profits fund research that can innovate. Tim et. Al. have certainly grown the Apple piggy bank. A piggy bank that can fund R&D towards developing amazing stuff. Not giving credit to Tim Cook for that, as well as where he has pushed Apple into new realms (Ie - Apple Watch, services that people clearly value) is simply unfair and absurd, no matter what criticism you may have for him.
I want to see Apple actively balancing risk taking with caution and “bean counting”. I want to see what mgmt TEAM emerges after a Tim Cook departure, not just who is CEO.
