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Tim Cook on New iPhone 6s Battery Case: 'I Wouldn't Call it the Hump'
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Let's remember that it was Steve Jobs that appointed the current leadership team that is in its respective place. The only one being different is the Retail VP, Angela.
A collection of Apple Innovations this year in one picture:
I think the smart battery case is okay.. plenty of rooms for improvement, expecting the 2nd gen smarter battery case:
I think the smart battery case is okay.. plenty of rooms for improvement, expecting the 2nd gen smarter battery case:
This is a first world problem forum, sorry but YOU need to check somewhere else if you don't like it.
No Scott.
And even Steve made mistakes. How do you appoint someone to follow in your footsteps when your footsteps are unfollowable?
I've never been one to agree with those who have been saying that Cook doesn't make a a great CEO, but I have to admit I'm really starting to wonder. It's not one big thing - it's just there seems to more of the little things that are making me wonder:
1. Cook's defence of the hump phone case
2. The very fact that Cook seems to have given this design the okay
3. The neglect of the Mac mini (and the questionable ''update" of 2014)
4. That he can say this - ". "I think if you’re looking at a PC—why would you buy a PC anymore? No, really, why would you buy one?" Some say he was talking about Windows machines, but even so...
5. The Mac Pro. Yes, also debatable, but at the very least, wouldn't you at least update it once in a blue moon?
6. The maddening race to thinness at the expense of usability (oh wait, we have an ugly battery case).
7. The continued move toward soldered everything in computers (from a company that touts its own eco-friendliness)
8. The maps fiasco
9. The long periods of updates for some computers, even after Intel has had newer chips available).
10. Significant bugs on release of a new OS (iOS and OSX). Subjective, I know, but the days of "it just works" are gone.
I do know that the list above is highly subjective (and could be longer), and it seems as though the stock market disagrees with me, but I am more concerned about Apple than I used to be....
1. Cook's defence of the hump phone case
2. The very fact that Cook seems to have given this design the okay
3. The neglect of the Mac mini (and the questionable ''update" of 2014)
4. That he can say this - ". "I think if you’re looking at a PC—why would you buy a PC anymore? No, really, why would you buy one?" Some say he was talking about Windows machines, but even so...
5. The Mac Pro. Yes, also debatable, but at the very least, wouldn't you at least update it once in a blue moon?
6. The maddening race to thinness at the expense of usability (oh wait, we have an ugly battery case).
7. The continued move toward soldered everything in computers (from a company that touts its own eco-friendliness)
8. The maps fiasco
9. The long periods of updates for some computers, even after Intel has had newer chips available).
10. Significant bugs on release of a new OS (iOS and OSX). Subjective, I know, but the days of "it just works" are gone.
I do know that the list above is highly subjective (and could be longer), and it seems as though the stock market disagrees with me, but I am more concerned about Apple than I used to be....
Haha that's awesome
Honestly I thought the Apple pencil's way of charging while plugged to iPad was questionable (seems easy to put strain and break port/connector), now that you put all of that in the picture, I see a trend...
I think we are seeing the lack of Steve Jobs as the ultimate 'curator' of what Apple releases to the world, and thanks to Tim Cook we got the innovative award-winning hump design.
Or a dump...Ok fine I won't call it the hump, I'll call it the bump.
Or better yet... A trump
Read someone say that a lot of headphones won't work with this case. Piece of crap.
Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to using my 3,950 mAh Mophie case I got from Best Buy on sale for $89.99
Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to using my 3,950 mAh Mophie case I got from Best Buy on sale for $89.99
See, I think the problem is that Apple 7 years ago wouldn't have made a "mostly elegant" product, it would have been aesthetically pleasing the entire way through. Again, this is in a series of design choices that don't really serve a good purpose in the product. These are choices that are supposedly in the name of progress, e.g. a thinner phone, but not at the expense people want to pay, which is less battery life in this example. This is the type of thing Steve Jobs was talented at: knowing what people wanted before they knew they wanted it. This isn't to say that Apple is not on the edge of technological advances and consumer demand as there still are many examples of them at the forefront of new tech such as the USB-C port on the new MacBook, however, they are just not as much as they could have been.
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Cuz the only people that post on this forum are from America ...
I'd have to agree. It's not as though Jobs was perfect (see "hockey puck mouse" for example), but it just seems like Cook is letting more questionable products released into the wild than has happened in the past...
Freakin' entropy -- Apple's tendency towards disorder continues post Jobs.
I've never said that before but I'm pretty sure that Steve would have never allowed it.
Yeah, but the fat nano still had some cuteness to it. the iHump is THE WORST!
Of course Tim Cook is going to not call it any derogatory names! He APPROVED THIS HIDEOUS iHump of notre dame atrocity!
Apple does what they do best! Hypocrites!
Wait, let's just ask what Steve thinks?
Steve? Steve!? ......Are you there????
I am Funnybot
When Rene Ritchie says an Apple product is bad, it has to be really freaking bad.
Probably made in the same factory that churns out the watch bands. Cook sees efficiency in this supply line coup (efficiencies of scale, logistics, etc.) while we customers see a fugly kludge. The man has no taste.