The 5s will likely remain available. Both the 5s and the 5c are still current models.
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He invented? His company invented. He marketed. That was Steve's genius.
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Every iPhone launch is more successful than the last.
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Tim Cook Asks Apple Employees to Remember Steve Jobs on Third Anniversary of His Death
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The 5s will likely remain available. Both the 5s and the 5c are still current models.
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He invented? His company invented. He marketed. That was Steve's genius.
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Every iPhone launch is more successful than the last.
At the time Steve was right . Times have changed. Let it go.
Writing from my iPhone 6+
He's also good at making morons follow his company around like mindless zombies telling everyone how bad it is for some reason.
No one can match his ability.
Passing onto whatever's next. Heaven, Reincarnation, etc. It's not a stupid euphemism.
I liked Steve Jobs. I guessed an email for him and emailed him once asking to open an Apple Store in my part of the country. It was a short email with four or five really good reasons we needed one: high population density, high gdp per capita, lack of reliable service centres for hundreds of km, tech savvy population, and the locals really love Apple products! He never acknowledged my email but about 18 months later a store opened exactly where I had suggested. (And it's been very popular ever since). I like to think he personally read that email and passed it on to someone and said "sort this out" and it happened.
Kind of does doesn't it. I'm shocked they don't wear special black shirts for Steve Day etc.
Yeah he did some great things and all that but really he wasn't a saint etc. Just a man. Let those that want to remember him do it on their own time and way. I mean he left us these nifty phones with things like calendar so we can put in a reminder of our own. Especially employees. I mean if they don't know how to put an annually repeating event on a calendar perhaps they shouldn't be working there.
Watch Steve's keynotes
He was goooood, I still watch the key notes from when he came up with lost of his products and the optimism he uses. It is very important to learn from him if you are a manager, in how to point things out to the right direction.
He was goooood, I still watch the key notes from when he came up with lost of his products and the optimism he uses. It is very important to learn from him if you are a manager, in how to point things out to the right direction.
That doesn't drive stock prices... All this ******** about greener products, and not just Apple, everyone... How green is it when it turns up in a dump sooner?
My parents' 1976 Zenith furniture television lasted 15 years. I would be curious to compare the environmental impact of that set vs modern "green" units.
Green is the current buzzword, like gluten-free, etc... I'm not saying it is bad, but it should be put in perspective. Image a durable green product, that would be much better.
I know that iPhones get sold and used longer, but still no more than what 4-5 years? I guess that is better than most Android devices (and not being an Android-hater here)
Those are your opinions and you are welcome to them. But you will find that many if not most do NOT agree. Tim doing what he thinks is best, per Steve's dying advice, even when it is a 180 degree from 'what would steve do' isn't a ruining in most eyes. It's just a change.
Some of those changes are seen as very good.
The iPhone 6 plus shows that Apple is responsive to customer chatter. They don't think that size is what everyone wants so its not the only size they made. But they were willing to try it. If it is a dud then they can always not do one next year same as the 5C experiment.
On a corporate level there is the donation matching. Steve was a known buddhist and buddhism holds to the belief that charity should be about charity and not a PR tool so when you donate or volunteer you don't advertise it. Add to this that Steve felt that neither he nor the Board had the right to decide who should get Apple's money. Tim on the other hand isn't a buddhist and doesn't share such thoughts about talking about donations. And he found a solution to the latter issue. Apple doesn't make donations on their own but they facilitate and match donations (including now paying at least a portion of your hourly wage to a charity for volunteer time at your request). Let the employees decide by giving themselves. Or let the customers decide by matching donations run through iTunes programs etc
Many folks would say that these things are not Steve like. But others would say that is the best part about them. Steve would never do them and he was wrong for that.
If you want to celebrate the man, you use his birthday. This whole "death anniversary" is really, really creepy.
If you want your company to look to the future and be inspired, you don't dwell on the negatives of the past, (i.e. someone's death.) You look to what he did in life. Reflect on the anniversary of his Macintosh, iPod or iPhone unveiling. Not the day he died.
He was beloved by Tim and several more at corporate sure. But most of the retail staff never met Steve, never even saw him. Many were hired after he died. And these yearly emails could be taken as a tone of 'you will remember him because we are telling you to do it'. If they are going to do that they should have videos about him playing in all the stores that day. Black arm bands. Heck go even further and demand that Obama create National Steve Jobs Day. I'm sure the retail staff would love a break from the iPhone insanity with a day where all Apple stores are forbidden to be open so the staff can spend the day remembering Steve.
Yes he started a major company and they created stuff that has had an impact on the world in big ways. The same could be said about the telephone, computers in general, electricity, X ray machines and so on. Are we doing to remember those folks and their deaths year after year after year. Are we going to have an annual harping on how things aren't doing like they would have done it and how their successors ruined things. If we did that for each and every person who did something big we would never actually live our lives. Because there are enough folks that there would be someone for every day of the year
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Steve's legacy died when Tim said "One more thing"...he didn't say it the way Steve did!
He's not Steve so that makes sense. Frankly I hated that he used the phrase at all because I knew there would be folks that would dump on him for using 'steve's words'
I think you're reading too much into it. Doesn't sound passive aggressive at all, especially when you include the full sentence
Love him or not, Jobs will be remembered in American history as one of the most influential persons ever in business. Jobs may not have amassed the gigantic fortunes of a Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford or more recently Bill Gates III, but his leadership of Apple--especially after he returned to helm the company in 1997--has made an indelible mark in both technology and business. Indeed, the iPod, iPhone and iPad are the harbingers of a world of computers beyond the the desktop and laptop PC's we're so familiar with.
Post-Jobs Apple has become rough around the edges - the Beats thing, the me-too iWatch, failure to recall the faulty MBP2011 alienating users who now 'hate Apple', the much more fragile iPad Air, the lack of 'game changing' innovations and more bean counting and following the market.
The iPhone 6 is a nice product but in the hand it didn't give that 'Wow, this feels so much nicer than every other phone' reaction that the iPhone 4 did in its day. It's now only a bit nicer in the hand than other high end phones. It's cool to have iOS at those sizes but then you didn't need to be an innovator to realise that.
I firmly believe that when Google started to be a threat Apple should have really thrown the kitchen sink at online services. They should have bought Yahoo and revamped it or some similarly bold move. Maps and the anaemic (at least initially) iCloud gave the impression that Apple were 'crap at online' and could never challenge Google in that space.
It's not doom and gloom. I'd only buy an iPad for a tablet right now. Every time I pick up an android phone I just see a mishmash of an OS. Chromebooks are utter junk. The Retina laptops are still glorious, if expensive, products. But Apple cannot afford to slide - Nokia were invincible, Blackberry market leaders, and look how easily they were blown out of the water.
The iPhone 6 is a nice product but in the hand it didn't give that 'Wow, this feels so much nicer than every other phone' reaction that the iPhone 4 did in its day. It's now only a bit nicer in the hand than other high end phones. It's cool to have iOS at those sizes but then you didn't need to be an innovator to realise that.
I firmly believe that when Google started to be a threat Apple should have really thrown the kitchen sink at online services. They should have bought Yahoo and revamped it or some similarly bold move. Maps and the anaemic (at least initially) iCloud gave the impression that Apple were 'crap at online' and could never challenge Google in that space.
It's not doom and gloom. I'd only buy an iPad for a tablet right now. Every time I pick up an android phone I just see a mishmash of an OS. Chromebooks are utter junk. The Retina laptops are still glorious, if expensive, products. But Apple cannot afford to slide - Nokia were invincible, Blackberry market leaders, and look how easily they were blown out of the water.
Your moto G is inferior crap, and you're a troll. Enjoy your mediocre standards buddy.
You're all over the place by the way, first you mention overhyped issues that people who sit on their phones are having, then you jump to an issue from 4 years ago, then you bring up a software issue that was immediately repaired. The definition of grasping for straws.
Pretty sure I'm posting this from my non-bent iPhone 6 with plenty of service. Maybe I should switch to a moto g, lmao!!!
But the $150 dollar crap is just as responsive as iPhone. Grand it has no shinny Apple logo. Maybe that logo to you worth few hundreds bucks.
I am typing on my Moto G without browser hanging up on me with third party keyboard. Try that with iOS 8 without facing stupid issues.
So you say that everyone needed their iPhone 6 plus were sitted on their phone. So it is pure users' fault. You are blaming on users just like Steve jobs blaming people holding phones wrong. And your superior product were rendered useless with a software update, but that never happened with other inferior products. Nice try buddy to shifting every blames to clients and Apple can do no wrong.
So it's apples fault that people sit on their $700 phones? Gotta love it...
Keep trolling. Apple doesn't need your business. Enjoy your garbage phones.