Just thought of those really annoying popups and malware spread. What happens if cybernetically-enhanced people get one of those?
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Steve Wozniak Looks Toward Apple in 2075, Visits Apple Museum Exhibit in Seattle
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Just thought of those really annoying popups and malware spread. What happens if cybernetically-enhanced people get one of those?
It's not worth trying to convince people on here with reason. Most Macrumors visitors are probably tech-focused engineering types and they don't see the value of a Hermes Apple Watch band, nor do they have the perspective to see how that fits into Apple's overall strategy. (A longwinded way of saying that I agree with you.)
And do tell me, how has that informed a revolutionary product in the last five years? Nada. Zip.
You really don't understand Apple. They don't make anything new, they just put marketing muscle behind it and make the design intuitive. This sells like hot cakes and it's a recipe that has worked tremendously well.
Apple didn't invent the touchscreen phone.
They didn't invent the modern computer.
They didn't invent the MP3 player.
They made all of these things more accessible to the masses and marketed the **** out of them.
So their R&D budget has done squat diddly of late. They just copy other companies. And I say that typing an iPhone. That's not a bad thing, but you need to get your head out of Apple's ass and realise there are other companies making great products.
Sometimes, the form factor really does enable the function.
Would services such as Uber, instagram and Snapchat have been possible if we didn't have a pocket-sized computer that was always connected to the internet? I don't see myself lugging my desktop to my local supermarket to pay for my groceries. Nor would health tracking capabilities be possible without a mobile computer to constantly track and process all this data.
Maybe you can argue that instagram is nothing life-changing, health tracking is a gimmick and that we already had taxis before Uber, but for me, Uber has completely changed the way I get around.
In a nutshell, the more portable and accessible form factor of the smartphone, tablet and smartwatch means that I will end up using them more, and in more scenarios than a desktop.
And I already am. As a teacher, my iPad Pro routinely ends the day at under 20%. Conversely, there are times when I switch on my iMac only on weekends to get heavier tasks done. If you want to compare usage in terms of total time clock, my mobile devices definitely win hands down.
I go back to the whole "cars and trucks" analogy.
PCs likely won't go away anytime soon, but as people increasingly turn to smartphones and tablets for everyday tasks, this will leave PCs for more specialised and heavy-duty tasks.
I don't own a truck and I likely never will, but I recognise its role and its importance in the greater scheme of things. That said, I still see more cars than trucks on the road, and for good reason.
I wonder where my first computer, an Apple ][+, is today. I remember buying it for myself on Christmas Eve then sitting up until 2 am typing in a machine code Pong game program which was published in a magazine. I was amazed that I typed it in with no errors and it worked. I played for a while then went to bed. I was laying in bed proud of myself when I realized I never saved the program. Sigh! If you want more from memory lane, the floppy disk drive hadn't been invented yet and programs were saved to a cassette tape. Those were the days.
By 2075, it's quite possible and perhaps even probable that Apple will no longer exist or at the very least won't exist in its current form, having been purchased/decimated by another company. Microsoft, Google, some Chinese company, pick your poison. I'm leaning toward a foreign company because I believe MS and Google may also go extinct. Then again, the reason Apple ceases to exist years from now could have more to do with increasing economic/geopolitical chaos in the world, rather than Tim's recent and future missteps.
Woz is a genius and I highly respect him, however I don't agree with his reasoning. People make technological leaps not companies. Woz is a testament to that in action, Tim Cook is not a man with vision, he's just a numbers man who is good at people. Unfortunately he has the inability to take the chances apple should be taking right now. Elon Musk is the kind of man apple needs, someone who dreams and yes is ridiculous in his dreams (hyperloop failure). Elon was able to get an electric car company off the ground and grown it in a clever way that apple could only dream of doing. It's such a cliche to say but Steve Jobs was able to see technological developments and act on them through his various companies. They were organised in a way that cut out middle management and let him act like a startup. Apple has lost that as they've become so large, they would need massive reform to get agile again. They keep trying to be agile like putting only usbc on new MacBooks but they're actually mistakes and wrong steps.
What does Woz do these days anyways? Is he still on Apple's payroll and can he walk in without a security pass?
It must be nice not having to work for the rest of your life after your early 30's.
Some might say, he's a one trick pony, but that's all you need.
Woz usually buys his own hardware from Apple.
Jobs has many times commissioned Apple Sales department that deals with K12 Education to "donate" a few computers as Woz required for the school he works at as a teacher since he left Apple 2 decades+ ago. There are many threads here where Woz shows up at an Apple Store opening in lineup to purchase hardware ... sometimes staff recognizes him and moves him to the front of the line and shoppers without argument agree, but you can definitely see Woz graciously thanking them. He's a pretty humble jolly old fellow - even if he rambles on quite a bit.
Think of Woz as the old wookie in the tech world.