Apple hasn't made their own VPN protocol, if that's what you mean.
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Tim Cook Assures Employees Apple is Staying Focused on What It Does Best
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Apple hasn't made their own VPN protocol, if that's what you mean.
If only our
country had strong effective leadership like South Korea. Just dreaming
It might change in the future, but traditionally, Apple is quite reserved about remote work. It doesn't fit their engineering (I assume that's where you were looking) culture well.
Apple is cracking the whip on their Chinese manufactures already. Most of those sweat shops, I mean factories are already near pre-virus levels. Helps having a communist government on your side. lol
When they focus on making something as cool as my ancient Mac Pro, then I'll be interested again.
The balance sheet that Tim created, because he is producing people want to buy. While I got there are varied and wide views on everything Apple, the proof is in the pudding. Apple products are NOT status symbols, imo, people who believe that are from another era. They are premium though, at least in my opinion.
You bring up a good point with smartphones as a whole. Phones from other manufacturers are just as useless in the "pro" space. I wonder how Dex is fairing being a replacement for a fully loaded windows corporate desktop?
Its true about facetime, it's a ubiquitous consumer toy that is wildly successful within the ecosystem. As far as their corporate tools, probably zoom, webex etc. In the same way, apple uses AWS.
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I don't see this as a failure. I long contended that Apple needed to expand their lineups; it's not 1998 anymore. Apple is BIG.
So using existing infrastructure and R&D resources to provide older-but-updated tech is a good thing. The base iPads are VERY capable. The iPhone SE is a great device. Yes, it's shrewd profit-gathering, but so what? I bet people will buy it in droves. And going forward, as they release newer and newer devices, the quality of the "old" devices down the line could be on an upward trend.
I wish they'd done this on the Mac side too! Imagine Apple selling an updated 2010 Mac Pro ALONGSIDE the "bleeding edge" Tube in 2013. Or selling updated versions of the 2011 cMBPs or original Retina MBPs alongside the TouchBar ones.
Call them "classic" or whatever, but I'd be first in line.
Alas...
FaceTime Pro, obviously. "FaceTime with up to 140,000 of your closest friends."
Tim Cook is such a great leader and CEO.
You do know that a weak balance sheet limits paying people, R&D, and pretty much anything a company does right?
Gee whiz, what did Tim have for lunch?
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And hence, his entire contention is wrong? Please, cut it with the straw-man baloney.
Human nature will not change. We seek status, because higher status people: win the best quality breeding partners; and gain more resources easier, thus increasing survival chances. Both of these increase the chances of our genes being passed on, improving, and surviving. Our evolved emotional behaviours are extremely simple and primitive, regardless of how fast our technology advances and leaves us behind.
Cook gets lots of flak... from know-nothing armchair CEOs who post on blogs. The ‘fire Cook’ movement is a prime example of ignorant fools with nothing better to do than reveal their stupidity on blog forums.
Yep. Just as bad as the apple sycophants and tim bootlickers.
Sorry Tim but Apple hasn’t stayed focused on what Apple does best since your reign started.
I don’t care about Windows and I’m not into whataboutism.
I only care that macOS, iOS, and tvOS work reasonably well.
Yeah, it's where you confidence should come from as a leader of a company. Apple has a fortress balance sheet, built by a fantastic leader in Tim Cook.
This virus isn't going to change a damn thing in the long run. It's already losing its grip after 2 months.
Your problem is you're projecting your opinion on others. You're not upgrading until 2023...good for you. I am upgrading in fall 2020. Point is, many people are going to upgrade. Apple doesn't need or expect "everyone" to upgrade. Plenty of people still earn their paycheck and work from home and can do so indefinitely. For the people who can't, the economy will slowly re-open and people will spend money on their favorite devices.
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I mentioned facetime - why do you deviate to network protocols
No, I don't mean that. I mean UI, high level tools (!), not protocols.I just find it funny how 'professional' they call everything when what they offer is mostly (!) for non business hipster-style consumer usage! Don't get me wrong, I still like a lot of their stuff, my iPhone, my MBP .... AT HOME. At work... useless. I'm a physicist, try and hook their machines up to measure something... laughable and I'm not just talking 3rd party software support then anymore. They have no connectivity ...... they are what they are, a lifestyle company!
back on target....take their mail app, take iMessage, take FaceTime. The Covid pandemic harshly pushes the need for digitalization of workflows, having to replace a lot of human interaction. Many people having to work remotely for the first time..... That simply doesn't work very well in most cases with the childish Apple Software.
Others are trying, take the Ms Teams together with Outlook, Project Sharepoint e.g. (huge potential for improvements, it's nowhere near 'good' but at least it is something)... then there is Slack and other 'productivity' tools that are ACTUALLY being used by smaller companies and larger corporations meaning they could actually both collaborate. And you can actually get on premise solutions when data security will not be compromised by using a cloud server in a country which is known to have conducted federally driven hacks to help their economy (the US of A).
... But the ONE company who praises the terms 'eco-system' and 'pro' like they're the gods of the universe has almost NOTHING, that helps the professional world in this situation the world is in. ... but some of their hardware
that was my point
Hm... I don't think the phones (hardware) is useless ... just most of the software including their super-praised 'eco-system'... well... great for families and friends, I agree... but 'pro' as in for professional use as in work with it? LMAO
If it weren't for the 3rd party apps, then yes, useless. Thankfully, there are a few apps that do what the manufacturer only offers consumer tools for ... sadly too few and many of which are not very far along stability, usability etc.
FaceTime is **** BECAUSE everybody has to have an Apple device.... again, works in families and rarely maybe in strangely homogeneous circles of friends. Why on earth is this **** not open.... oh yeah, that's right, because they want to lock people in... just like other companies, at least those others do it cross platform. Remember, Apple is a hardware company. Their services are just addons for the looks.
This Covid19 crisis really reveals who is 'system critical' and relevant, also in the Tech world. And guess what? Apple isn't amongst them!
It surely isn't FaceTime, iMessage or iCloud servers that are being hammered during the day because demand sky rocketed during the past weeks when half the backbone of the G20's workforce started to work from home.... nope.
Basically now one sees how 'pro' Apple is..... it is not.
What they can do is help with implementing the contact tracing technology... but they were even slower on that joint-venture with google than the Trump administration was with masks. I'm basically convinced that they will copy the european PEPP-PT (privacy protecting proximity tracing) which we (yes, I'm one of them) came up with. Not saying they shouldn't, but for combined >3 trillion in net worth (laughable), Apple and Google, (Microsoft ... ) all the self proclaimed 'pro' and worthy companies so far have done... ehh... little to nothing to showcast their superiority when it comes to ideas and money spend on finding solutions out of this. I would have expected them to start in February and be done by now with a 100% secure and very effective software framework to trace and alert Covid-Contact routes...... but no... nothing.
I'm not a general Apple hater, got several Apple i-devices at home and continue to recommend them to many people... mostly for PRIVATE use only. Shame, Apple with their huge cash pile and their claim to offer 'pro' stuff should do more.
The few professions that one still can kind of recommend the equipment for are photo/videographers (the so called 'creatives') and journalist kinda stuff... and yes the phones since people need phones. But most of the jobs... NO far too little software freedom, pathetic IO and oh yeah... can't even add RAM yourself or so.
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sincerely yours .... physicist, programmer, engineer... I'd call myself a creative ... you know, for instance developing stuff that builds other stuff that builds the 'pro' toys
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nice idea but how is that gonna help 8 billion people within the next 12+ months? Do you think it's realistic to even manufacture enough ... and then you want people to pay for it?
Seriously, if you're having issues with o2 saturation due to Covid19, you WILL HAVE FELT that breathing is harder way earlier.... and your body doesn't charge 400$ to volunteer that information to you.
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