Selling Mini iPhones at a affordable price point is too much for Tim!
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we need new leadership at apple. steve ballmer tim cook is completely uninspired.
Apple are aggressively morphing into a services company.
The "Kindly Uncle" facade has dropped.
Because they cannot escape their folly of investing most of their hardware manufacturing resources in the PRC, ripping the wallets of the faithful by forcing us into their "services" strategy, should ease the pain.
All imo, of course.
The "Kindly Uncle" facade has dropped.
Because they cannot escape their folly of investing most of their hardware manufacturing resources in the PRC, ripping the wallets of the faithful by forcing us into their "services" strategy, should ease the pain.
All imo, of course.
And there is the infinite growth fallacy That every single shareholder want to see and every single customer doesn’t want to see (higher price product with lower quality). 2 trillion dollar is not enough. Shareholders demand 200 trillion dollar in 2 days. Imagine that became true even just for a few seconds.
Apple needs to be seriously careful with ads. They have become the worlds most valuable company on the back of offering a premium user experience at a premium price. Anything littered with ads is not a premium experience.
What we need is a sweeping overhaul of the society to heavily punish greed and power seeking to fundamentally eliminate these problems. Basically, tackle the very root of human weaknesses.
I can’t see it happening though, certainly not within my lifetime.
Then they can PR their way out to brainwash unsuspected users into enjoying “premium ads” (aka higher quality ads) so they can expand their ads business while Hurting google meta etc along the way.
Apple is not at all the same company it was in the early 00s. It's become a profit machine and Tim Cook is the problem. Sure he is making billions in the short term , but the soul is dying as a result. There is no vision anymore beyond profit.
Hardly.
What the iPhone shortage simply means is that people will defer their iPhone purchases from this quarter to the next. The net result will be that Apple reports less revenue this quarter, and makes up for it in the next.
Subscription prices are up because content costs more to make / license, and ads are there because Apple is in a unique position to facilitate a relationship between developers and customers while continuing to respect our privacy.
Ad revenue is also a drop in the bucket compared to iPhone revenue, so I have no idea how anyone could in their right mind imagine that Apple is planning to use one to offset the other, much less turn into an ad company. It's like saying that Apple is a dongle company because they sell adaptors for the headphone jack, never mind that the money from its sales would probably be a rounding error on their balance sheet.
A lot of accusations towards Apple don't really make sense when you actually stop and think about it for more than 2 seconds.
If they can’t make iPhones fast enough then they should be charging more. Not ruining experience.
Don't you think that Steve Job's goal was to make Apple a profit machine? He cut product lines, and initiatives all in the name of profits when he first arrived at apple.
Tim Cook is anyhting but the problem, while I'm not a fan of him, its hard to say he's done anything other then succeed wildly. Any metric you use to measure success, Apple and Tim cook exceeds.
You may not like what apple turned into, and that's fine but the foundation of that new look was laid and built up by Steve Jobs.
Fully agree. Steve turned apple into a money making machine. He groomed Tim. Let’s not forget how ruthless he was with music or what he tried to do with iBooks by lining up all the publishers and getting terms like can’t sell anywhere else at a lower price. Govt busted him for antitrust.
His goal was to get you one click away from a purchase with a credit card in every iTunes account. You don’t leverage this by doing nothing.
That’s not taking away him being a product person who was also relentless on getting them right. That’s just a fire Tim doesn’t have.
I wonder how many people will actually vote with their wallet due to their unbounded outrage about ads?
Two? Three? Zero?
Two? Three? Zero?
Some of the other streaming services are now offering an ad tier, because of the economy we have to choose those options.
Ads cheapen the product. Disney and Netflix may realize it at some point. Especially Disney who’s a content king.
Apple spends $1b on lawyers. You don’t think this has already been thought through? Long before it happened?
Now? What has been driving the company before now? The innovation and deliverables under Cook clear reflect his North Star has been fast money. What is happening now is the consequence of it.
Yes!!! I’m in the US and I was wondering if this was a recent change. I get these awful generic ads at the beginning of podcasts now. And it’s like it’s encoded in the runtime because I can rewind and it plays again just like it were a part of the podcast.
Oh? Dynamic ad insertion you say…. The ads at the beginning do sound abnormal for the rest of the podcast (it’s a daily news commentary podcast), and the podcaster inserts their own ad read, so the generic ad at the beginning sounds very out of place.
I guess dynamic ad insert is switched on by the podcaster?
To state the obvious, I don’t like ads. No one does.
I expect ads when I’m getting something for free. If I read an in-depth review of a new product I expect ads. Someone has to pay that reviewer for their time to research and write about the product. Ads put in front of me just because they can are not good.
For Apple Maps, to me that’s part of iOS. I feel like I pay for that when I buy the iPhone. So I don’t think ads are appropriate.
Apple News makes sense to have ads inside an article just as if you viewed the article on the website. However, I don’t think the main view of available articles should have ads especially if you pay for News+.
I definitely don’t want ads in the TV App. I’m going there to see content I’ve already paid for. That would be like opening my pantry to grab my morning cereal but seeing an ad for another cereal brand.
Honestly, I’m on the fence about the App Store. My usage is almost entirely to find an app that I search for. Rarely do I browse for something new. If Apple wants to show a sponsored new game in a promoted way I don’t know how much I care. To me it’s like walking through the grocery store and seeing featured products on big displays. As long as I can easily get to what I want I’m not sure I care.
It’s like many things where the current reality is not so bad, but we fear the trend.
I expect ads when I’m getting something for free. If I read an in-depth review of a new product I expect ads. Someone has to pay that reviewer for their time to research and write about the product. Ads put in front of me just because they can are not good.
For Apple Maps, to me that’s part of iOS. I feel like I pay for that when I buy the iPhone. So I don’t think ads are appropriate.
Apple News makes sense to have ads inside an article just as if you viewed the article on the website. However, I don’t think the main view of available articles should have ads especially if you pay for News+.
I definitely don’t want ads in the TV App. I’m going there to see content I’ve already paid for. That would be like opening my pantry to grab my morning cereal but seeing an ad for another cereal brand.
Honestly, I’m on the fence about the App Store. My usage is almost entirely to find an app that I search for. Rarely do I browse for something new. If Apple wants to show a sponsored new game in a promoted way I don’t know how much I care. To me it’s like walking through the grocery store and seeing featured products on big displays. As long as I can easily get to what I want I’m not sure I care.
It’s like many things where the current reality is not so bad, but we fear the trend.