Being handpicked by Steve to run the biggest company in the world?
He probably kissed a lot of butt while Steve was on a downward trajectory, health wise
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Tim Cook Rises and Eddy Cue Drops on Vanity Fair's 2017 New Establishment List
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Being handpicked by Steve to run the biggest company in the world?
He probably kissed a lot of butt while Steve was on a downward trajectory, health wise
I’m eagerly awaiting Tim Cook to be replaced.
By one of the many possible candidates from our forum posters here who are apparently more qualified than he is.
He was at the right place at the right time with an impressive background that landed him the job as a successor CEO...Your personal feeling against him or opinion on his tech savyness doesn't change how Apple has been doing as a corporation under his leadership. Blame the Tech execs for their lack of innovation there, it's not the CEOs job.
Not immediately of course, but while seeming far-fetched at the moment, physical phones are sure to be replaced in the future by an alternate (and acceptable) new incarnation of the originally not so well received 'unattractive glasses', enabling virtual 'projection' of content and info in front of us, anywhere and everywhere we can find ourselves, empowered with super-smart virtual assistants of course, all the while untethered by cumbersome 'bulky' gadgets.
Continued miniaturization and radically new thinking will make that possible, and development of such technology is likely already well underway for large scale introduction and adoption within 5-10 years, gradually rendering current smartphones as relics of the past, and as quaint as those 'monster Motorola phones' of the seventies and eighties.
Whoever ultimately ends up at the forefront of that exciting new field, design-, tech-, and development-wise, may well find themselves becoming the next trillion-dollar company.
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Anything Eddy cue is in charged is a disaster. iTunes interface is a disaster.
Really sad how the rich spend so much time jerking each other off (as evidenced by this article) to give anything more than lip-service to the little guy.
The vast majority of people on that list are not actually doing anything. They are figureheads; they give orders which other, less well-off people are compelled to follow; and for all that they are paid millions upon millions of dollars. Give me a ****** break.
The vast majority of people on that list are not actually doing anything. They are figureheads; they give orders which other, less well-off people are compelled to follow; and for all that they are paid millions upon millions of dollars. Give me a ****** break.
"Thank you. Kiss my ass. Good night. God bless."
Cue is the reason we still use this bugged iTunes and underdeveloped Music. Should be fired or retired ASAP!
I kind of agree that Apple needs something new or to redefine something like they did with the iPhone else they're going to end up in trouble. But right now Apple is very successful, and even if they weren't, it took Blackberry like ten years to finally die. Apple has 100x the resources. With that much money they'll find a new hit eventually, or copy whoever comes up with the new hit and do it better. I don't know why people are so doom and gloom about it.
Yes? If anything, Apple seems less like a one trick pony lately, with a Services operations basically the size of Facebook and wearables sharply up.
This is reflected by a much lower revenue share of the iPhone.
about 6 months. I still smash my fingers into it, its not comfy to use at all. Glad you like it.
But he hasn't launched the homepod... it was announced and then everything leaked revealing the rest of the product line updates. What kind of idiot wrote this review?
Animated emoji is not an expensive gimmick - it's a fairly inexpensive proof-of-concept gimmick that utilizes new hardware and software that is also being used for more serious purposes.
The glass back is there to facilitate Qi charging. The use of a charging pad does not necessarily qualify as a gimmick (though I'd classify it as an incremental convenience rather than a major innovation).
As to HomePod and Apple TV? One has to ask what Apple's "core products" are at this point. From my perspective, the ecosystem is the core product. Essentially any product that profitably extends the reach of the ecosystem has a place. The more ways you can play the media sold/rented by Apple, the greater value those sales/subscriptions have to the end user. Ceding a particular part of the user's environment to other, competing ecosystems undermines the value of the ecosystem.
Based on sheer numbers sold/percentage of revenue, there are certainly key products - iPhone, iPad, Mac, and iTunes/App Store. The nostalgic continue to believe Mac is Apple's core product (or should be), but that's no longer the case. In the 10 years since iPhone's debut Mac unit sales have quadrupled, and it's easy to argue that would not have happened without iPhone. The integration of mobile devices with the computer makes all of them more valuable. Relatively low-priced, special-interest products like Apple TV and HomePod aren't likely to make large, direct dents in the company's bottom line, but each one purchased helps ensure that Apple's customer's will be buying their replacement devices and content from Apple.
And as to Apple's current media content experiments? Similar criticism had been made of early efforts by Netflix, HBO, radio networks efforts to expand into that new-fangled TV thing... All were judged failures until they began to produce hits. The nature of entertainment media is that large amounts of content will be rejected by the audience, but the hits will eventually pay for the failures, and then some. Apple has more than enough money to keep producing flops until they finally have their first hit.
I am with them on the waning interest in the MacBook Pro. I would have purchased two, but I absolutely cannot buy a computer that will require me to carry a minimum of three dongles (USB, HDMI, SD Card). I agree that wireless is the future, but if Apple really want to enable that then the W1 chip (and similar) would be available to other developers to use for other wireless accessories.
Bluetooth is NOT capable of replacing a wire for me at this point.
Bluetooth is NOT capable of replacing a wire for me at this point.
We don't know all the details but you (not you specifically) can't have it both ways either. People love to complain that Apple TV and iTunes suck and blame those entirely on Eddy. I'm just saying we need to step back and give credit where it's due and criticize when it's relevant too.
Especially considering how much trouble they've had getting stuff out on time...I wouldn't be surprised if it gets pushed back until next year.
Yes, it is really bad. What if what happened to the Motorola Razr happens to iPhone? Company needs to be diversified in their revenue.