Many of these 'repeat' customers are actually on things like contracts or are corporations rather than individuals. Also consider that many traditional PC manufacturers exited the market in the last decade which boosted sales of the remaining few.
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Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs on 8th Anniversary of His Death
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Many of these 'repeat' customers are actually on things like contracts or are corporations rather than individuals. Also consider that many traditional PC manufacturers exited the market in the last decade which boosted sales of the remaining few.
Fortunately that’s not the case.
As Steve himself pointed out lifting your arm up to point at the screen of an iMac or MacBook is tiring for long periods of time and terribly unergonomic.
If you’re only going to do it a few times an hour you may as well not bother at all.
It also took Apple's previous partnering with Motorola developing the Rokr to come up to speed in the cellular telecom world, on a variety of technical fronts, in order to gain the expertise to design the iPhone. Without that previous relationship with a (then) telecom industry giant, the iPhone would likely never have happened. That was an extremely shrewd move by Jobs engaging with Motorola on the Rokr.
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Bingo!
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You haven’t read The One Device then?
The desire to make a cellphone and the technology behind it was gestating at Apple years before the ROKR.
Stop buying Apple products? Who? You’re more than welcome. my family and I like their products.
But you forgot one item for Apple after serve Jobs. $1t. That’s a measure of success that I think many critics find it hard to swallow.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying particularly about the Mac but the Surface Pro 7 doesn't have Thunderbolt 3 it just has the USB type C port with not TB3 support.
That is pretty much my issue with the Surface stuff, some nice hardware, interesting form factors but some strange omissions and I/O choices.
Thats a terrible explanation if you're going to put out an iPad Pro with keyboard which creates exactly the same situation.
Like the big phone thing Jobs was wrong on this.
You like the user friendliness. You can't honestly say to us long term users that you like being shafted with bugs, poor designs, throttling, increasing profit margins, slow GPU performance. You said yourself 'My family and I'. Home user with disposable income. Users like you don't experience the downsides. You are not one of the hardcore users who demand better.
Apple profit margins have been decreasing.
The thing about Jobs was that he was capable of enabling other people to excel.
Cook is not that kind of personality or he would have let go of Ive after Jobs death. Ive is the prime example of a personality who is nothing without a mentor and challenger – which Cook obviously isn't.
In my opinion Ive ruined Apple, which was not his fault but Cook's of course. I sincerely hope that behind the scenes he was fired by Cook –realising the damage Ive had done, and that this now will change something at Apple.
Cook is not that kind of personality or he would have let go of Ive after Jobs death. Ive is the prime example of a personality who is nothing without a mentor and challenger – which Cook obviously isn't.
In my opinion Ive ruined Apple, which was not his fault but Cook's of course. I sincerely hope that behind the scenes he was fired by Cook –realising the damage Ive had done, and that this now will change something at Apple.
As a hardcore user, are you going to vote with your wallet and instead purchase computers/devices from other manufacturers?
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You cleverly (and perhaps disingenuously) left out the words "optional and detachable" before the word "keyboard."
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Miss you Steve Jobs. Wish you were here. RIP!
Steve Jobs was a true American Entrepreneur who improved the lives of people all over the planet. RIP Steve. You are missed.
With a 7.9", 10.2", 10.5", 11", and 12.9" iPad lineup!? Respectfully, I doubt it. Steve fixed Apple's bloated lineup when he came back to Apple in the '90s to make it is what it is today. While much of Steve undoubtably lives on in the company, Apple was not prepared to loose such an influenctial individual prematurely.
I do like the user friendliness. As far as bugs, I use windows also...need I say more? But I'll say, what bugs, what throttling, what poor designs? Who cares about profit margins? You can cherry pick what you want, but whether I'm hardcore or not, I spend my money the way it benefits me most.
As far as "users like me", just admit you don't know about a general term like "users like me" means. Seems like you just put a bunch of talking points in a post.
Jobs came back when Apple was in the dumps and turned it around. Key was cancelling contracts that allowed other manufacturers to manufacture clone computers that ran MacOS. Jobs also paired down its own product offerings; smart due to Apple's poor health.
Despite giving customers more choices today, Apple is extremely successful, likely far beyond Jobs' dreams, and far far from a company that's failing.
Just because a strategy worked to partially help turn a failing Apple around in the mid-1990s, does not mean that Apple today with more product choices at a range of price points to attract a wider audience, is a bad thing.
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What if Steve were still alive;
- iPhone 11 wouldn't exist. iPhone 11 Pro would be iPhone 11.
- iPhone 11 (i.e. iPhone 11 Pro) would be $649.
- iPhone 11 Max (i.e., iPhone 11 Pro Max) would be $649. Steve thought the smaller phones were more difficult to be made.
- No ugly camera bump.
- I wouldn't sleep during the keynotes.
- iPhone 11 wouldn't exist. iPhone 11 Pro would be iPhone 11.
- iPhone 11 (i.e. iPhone 11 Pro) would be $649.
- iPhone 11 Max (i.e., iPhone 11 Pro Max) would be $649. Steve thought the smaller phones were more difficult to be made.
- No ugly camera bump.
- I wouldn't sleep during the keynotes.
all you guys have to do is stop buying Apple products if you really want tim to leave. yet most of you still buy these products that you seem to hate so much
Rather astonishing, isn't it!
Not at all. He was just following Steve's roadmap. If a genius gave you a list of things to do to become a billionaire and you execute them, its more to do with the genius and not you.
Yeah, it's the old "1000 monkeys could do the same job as you" misconception. Bigger phones, homepod, airpods, apple pay, apple news etc. we know all were on Steve's roadmap. Steve communicated them to Tim and Tim just executed them. Yep you're right. /s
However, in a certain sense it's irrelevant as Apple today is very successful. Tim has reaped the financial rewards of following Steve's advice, through the ether.
So if it makes Tims' critics feel better to know Tim isn't the genius portrayed as he is just a lackey following orders, than y'all go for it.
Theoretically, it’s absolutely possible to restore SJ back into the earth. You just need faith for that to happen.
When Steve Jobs was running Apple:
When Steve Jobs passed away and Cook took over:
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For example, Hyundai copied the Toyota Production System (TPS) for building cars. Completely turned that company around from the utter trash they built in the 80’s.
- He’s an arrogant jerk.
- He berated employees and is difficult to work with.
- He abandoned his daughter.
- He takes credit for others work.
When Steve Jobs passed away and Cook took over:
- He was a visionary.
- He understood where technology was going.
- Apple wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Steve.
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If it was that simple then why don’t all companies just follow Steve? Why can’t anyone else clone Apples success?
For example, Hyundai copied the Toyota Production System (TPS) for building cars. Completely turned that company around from the utter trash they built in the 80’s.
It was obvious early on with all the absent days and months, the secretiveness around his health-issues, that he wasn't going to be around forever.
He himself knew better than anyone else that he was literally living on borrowed time, bought by sequencing the DNA of his cancer and variating the medical cocktail each time it mutated - until that no longer worked.
His death was a surprise and a shock to all of us - but Apple was prepared, at least from a technical point of view.
Steve was the right man at the right time, doing mostly right things.
But I still believe Tim Cook is the right man for this time, too.
Apple is an economy of its own, it would be ranked somewhere in the 40s-ranks here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
Nation states almost treat it as a peer (as they do other companies like MSFT, GOOG and AMAZN)!
I think Apple only started to have a significant lobbying-budget after Tim took over (and even he was reluctant).
Sometimes, it looks like the only line of communication between China and the US that always stays open is through Tim. Steve would never have been able to maintain the patience for that (that may have been a side-effect of living on borrowed time and knowing it - you probably lose patience for time-wasters at that point).
It takes different personalities to found a company, to make it grow, to bring it through crisis and to grow it to truly global scale (and keep it there). Steve as able to adapt himself so that he could lead Apple to through some of those phases - but I really struggle to see that he would have had the patience to adapt himself one more time for the current situation.
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We miss you, Steve, and we miss the old Apple.