Throwing around Labels and memes do not elevate the content of your posts. In fact diminishes them if labels are required to make a point.
Your posts are what they are....straw-man opinions.
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Tim Cook Says Apple is Always Focused on 'Products and People' Over Wall Street Expectations
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Your posts are what they are....straw-man opinions.
I'm not gonna read through 300 comments, just felt interested for which glasses company is Mr. Cook doing ads these days?
Yet Apple is the largest taxpayer in the world, providing more tax revenue to governments than any company in the world. And, can you name a specific example where Apple doesn't pay the tax revenue it owes in a country it operates in?
And, like most people you ignore the billions that are paid to local and national governments in the form of sales tax revenue by purchases. And the billions that are poured into countries economies by the direct and indirect employment of millions of people throughout the world. But again, please site a country where Apple does something different than every other company, i.e., pays the taxes it owes.
Another thing that you are missing, affordable education.
Most of the industrialised world has free or affordable healthcare.
By the way because of your social education of "all i care about is me" you dont get things like free/affordable healthcare or education. Which is funny too because you seem to think you are a corporation. Its the only way I would understand defending corporations which do absolutely nothing for you or your society.
Any who, I would like to apologise. Its not my right to force my "views" or rational views for that matter on to you. You are free to live and think how you like. My advice would be to think a little bit more about others than your self. It feels good inside too.
I wholeheartedly agree but your barking up the wrong tree if you think you will change the minds of those who already purchased this overhyped so called smart speaker. Critique sometimes offends so it's best to let people enjoy what they already own. No harm done but also take heed to what Albert Camus believed...."The need to be right is the sign of a Vulgar Mind". Just sayin.
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i hate to be one of the "if steve was here..." guy, and i believe apple have launched a lot of pretty good products in the recent years, but i just can't stand this guy repeating the same bs over and over again in every interview.
Steve or any other more straight forward person would've explained why stock price is important for a publicly traded company (cuz its true). And argued how a higher stock price helped the company to deliver better products. Or how the two goals doesn't have to go against each other. Instead of this phony crap "ya i don't care about the stock price i care about our users".
I remember jack ma of alibaba said something along the lines when people buy their stock, it means people believed he can spend the money better than they (individual shareholders) could, so that's a lot of responsibilities for him and the company to deliver good products and services.
Now that's inspiring. Again, not any of this phony bs.
Steve or any other more straight forward person would've explained why stock price is important for a publicly traded company (cuz its true). And argued how a higher stock price helped the company to deliver better products. Or how the two goals doesn't have to go against each other. Instead of this phony crap "ya i don't care about the stock price i care about our users".
I remember jack ma of alibaba said something along the lines when people buy their stock, it means people believed he can spend the money better than they (individual shareholders) could, so that's a lot of responsibilities for him and the company to deliver good products and services.
Now that's inspiring. Again, not any of this phony bs.
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The days of innovation at apple are long past. Now they are nothing but a lead from behind me-too product company. Rolling out a gimped-out Mono bluetooth speaker in 2018 is like selling excrement and calling it chocolate ice cream.
This video is a good example of why Cook should be ashamed of proclaiming everything they do is for the user. It was made by MacRumors.
Just watch how Siri utterly fails compared to the others, then remind yourself just how long it’s been now since Siri first launched, and how much money and how many resources Apple has available to improve Siri but hasn’t..
Just watch how Siri utterly fails compared to the others, then remind yourself just how long it’s been now since Siri first launched, and how much money and how many resources Apple has available to improve Siri but hasn’t..
If the HomePod is excrement, then what does that make the other smart speakers like the amazon echo?
another fluff article for Apple.
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The Echo is less than 1/3 of the price of the homepod.
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If the HomePod is excrement, then what does that make the other smart speakers like the amazon echo?
The Echo is less than 1/3 of the price of the homepod.
Wow, that video is painful to watch, in the year 2018 the fact Siri is so caveman, it's too shameful. It's so obvious it's a rushed product trying to catch up to the competition.
Yes utterly shameful. And don’t forget the Apple speaker costs double the Sonos, so you could have two Sonos speakers for stereo sound and Alexa.. It’s been pretty clear Apple has not really made much effort to improve Siri.
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If the HomePod is excrement, then what does that make the other smart speakers like the amazon echo?
It makes the others actual ‘smart speakers’ and devices like the Echo years ahead, their is no point in a good sounding speaker with a poor AI system that costs a premium. Watch the video I posted.
Really Tim? Is that why we've gotten like 10 rushed updates of iOS 11 to fix horrible issues? I've never seen iOS so buggy in my life, it's AMAZING!
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Just another data point. My iPhone 6S got nearly 2-day battery life initially in Sep-Oct 2015. By later that year I was down to 6 hours/day at best. Now I often get 75-80% drain after 3 hours of moderate usage, and that's after the battery replacement! iOS starting with 9.2 to 11.2.5 is a garbage fire.
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Look, if Microsoft is kicking it at $706 billion market cap and record revenues after dying a 100 deaths, Apple's demise can't be too painful.
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This is Grade A bologna! Tim Cook doesn’t care about users, or the products, he only cares about profits. Case in point...iOS 11 and the iPhone X. I’ve had every iPhone since the iPhone 4, and the iPhone X brings nothing exceptional or innovative to the table. The only thing it has going for it IMO is it’s form factor, and Apple should’ve made the near bezel-less display happen 2+ years ago. iOS 11 is garbage, point blank. I’ve never had an iPhone perform so closely to an Android in my life. It’s a disgrace and yet another reason Jobs is rolling in his grave...again. If they don’t get it together I might have to buy an Android this fall, which is my worst nightmare. The unchanged in 3+ years Mac Pro that Apple NEVER lowered their price on and was a rip off to begin with. Oh, and let’s not forget Jony “The Coat-tail Riding Hack” Ive and his “unapologetically plastic” iPhone. Apple has been on the same downward spiral that it was on from the 80’s to the late 90’s...only Jobs isn’t coming back this time
Just another data point. My iPhone 6S got nearly 2-day battery life initially in Sep-Oct 2015. By later that year I was down to 6 hours/day at best. Now I often get 75-80% drain after 3 hours of moderate usage, and that's after the battery replacement! iOS starting with 9.2 to 11.2.5 is a garbage fire.
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Look, if Microsoft is kicking it at $706 billion market cap and record revenues after dying a 100 deaths, Apple's demise can't be too painful.
Agreed. Steve was more "real" and down-to-earth. Words cannot describe how much I miss him. He was freaking awesome. Apple is not that same without him. They just seem to limp along with no soul...
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/21/homepod-adoption-early-weeks/
Has it occurred to anyone here that maybe, just maybe the things that reviewers and techy people complain about the HomePod sucking at are things that most users don’t care about anyways?
And the point that music playback is the most popular use of smart speakers shows that Apple did their homework before releasing the HomePod. They knew that this was the most common use case, and made that the standout feature of the HomePod.
Apple isn’t perfect, but they’re not stupid either.
Their commercial power is insane.
Every time I see her, I think "there goes my kidney..."
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So your making an excuse that people who spend that much on a speaker advertised as being smart, this is from Apples page for it::
HomePod is a powerful speaker that sounds amazing and adapts to wherever it’s playing. It’s the ultimate music authority, bringing together Apple Music and Siri to learn your taste in music. It’s also an intelligent home assistant, capable of handling everyday tasks — and controlling your smart home
http://www.apple.com/uk/homepod/
Is that it’s users do not actually want an actual smart speaker??.... well people on here claim to have bought them and returned them and unless you are able to ask every single owner, that is nothing but an excuse for it’s poor Siri performance that you’ve made up.
I don’t use Siri since getting my Echo Dot because Alexa is years ahead of Siri, it actually understands everything I say and doesn’t just show some webpage links... it’s an actual assistant.
To claim Siri is doing all that people actually want it to do is to ignore it’s purpose in the first place, and ignore all of its competition in its market.
Some visions seem limited by own perspective, indeed.
Like the survey with 31% of 520 people that had a Home Speaker, 3% of which had an HomePod, that scored 89 % customer satisfaction (over all 5 of them). Surveyed over the internet, to ensure that they had the internet-savvy population. Commercially sponsored imbecility at best.
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/21/homepod-adoption-early-weeks/
Sorry, my survey at the Apple return desk got a 100% return rate
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I am simply saying that not everything which can be measured matters, just as not everything which matters can be measured.
Time and time again, this forum sees people criticising Apple products for supposedly lagging behind in this area or that. Then sales go on to explode, proving that those complaints do not accurately reflect buyer sentiment as a whole. Either the gravity of the situation was grossly overstated, or it was never really an issue to begin with.
As a general rule of thumb, Apple products can be released at any time, as long as that ‘one’ headline feature is ready. For example, the iPod didn’t need that huge capacity of other models, it needed the touchwheel; iPhone didn’t need 3G, it needed that multitouch screen; HomePod doesn’t need a better Siri, it needs outstanding sound (which it does have).
Because Apple products are often about that headline feature, buyers are willing to either wait or completely forego anything else.
One thing is clear to me though - this device is the new Apple Watch. It’s going to be the tech media’s whipping boy for the next year or two while software is tweaked and functionality is broadened. Then suddenly there will be write-ups praising the HomePod for all the things it got criticized for on day one.
Have you heard how some apple fans respond on here? I can see how it goes both ways, some people can't take views that go against their own and apple can do no wrong.
The critics do seem to be having the worse track record overall though. Hard to take their words seriously when their criticism simply isn’t squaring up with reality.
Apple could stand to improve Siri. But I would buy the HomePod due to its integration with Apple Music. I don’t care if Alexa is “better”, HomePod imo is better than Sonos as a whole and to me worth the price.
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4 times a year we all get to see where the rubber meets the road. At those time nothing else matters.Some visions seem limited by own perspective, indeed.
Like the survey with 31% of 520 people that had a Home Speaker, 3% of which had an HomePod, that scored 89 % customer satisfaction (over all 5 of them). Surveyed over the internet, to ensure that they had the internet-savvy population. Commercially sponsored imbecility at best.
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/21/homepod-adoption-early-weeks/
Sorry, my survey at the Apple return desk got a 100% return rate
To me, it really boils down to your streaming music of choice. If you are using Spotify, go with sonos. If you are using Apple Music, then the HomePod it is. Anything else is sheer icing on the cake.