What Timmy meant to say: "Apple is always focused on margins over products and people"
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Tim Cook Says Apple is Always Focused on 'Products and People' Over Wall Street Expectations
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The camera on iPhone’s have replaced a lot of people’s cameras over the years, more and more people are using their phones camera to take pictures when on holiday and so on, the Bokeh effect on the iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone and the 8 Plus is great, no it’s not going to replace a high end DSLR that pro’s use but it will replace the everyday camera that most people use.
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Failed products? They made a mistake with the 2013 Mac Pro and owned up to it, the MacBook Pro’s are hardly a failure and what you fail to mention are all the success and great products under Tim Cook, Apple Watch, AirPods, iPhone, iPad Pro.
Shareholders demand sales rise year over year. Apple releases new products and software every year, ready or not, to meet this demand. Users over Wall Street, hmmmm. To be fair, the American way of doing business. In this light, Apple does a commendable job of giving their users more attention then most American companies do. Would not go so far as to say we users are number one.
I had the first Macintosh and thought it was VERY cool, and so did everyone else. When was Apple NOT considered cool?
Not necessarily to give people exactly what they want. When Bounty takes sheets off a roll and charges the same price so they make more money and hope you don’t notice there are fewer sheets, is that selling what people want?
Didn't even read half and I can already say "Yeah right"
Examples:
- No Aux on HomePod.
- iPhone X price.
- Always opening store in Appstore on Mac even when you click on a notification which announces new software can be downloaded, hell you have to click twice on Updates if you click on it right after opening Appstore.
- Dongles
- ....
- made the $1k+ iphone x, that we hold and drop all day, out of the most shatterable material on earth - glass
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“Ordinary folk” literally cheat on their taxes routinely. Don’t claim certain side income, exaggerate charitable donations, etc. Apple actually plays by the rules that have been set by politicians. Get different politicians in power if you don’t like the rules.
Tim is an extraordinary CEO, and I believe he really believes in what he is saying. Having said that, perhaps a little more attention to consumer trends as evidenced by what competitors are doing might not be such a bad thing. On the other hand, with few exceptions, Apple typically becomes the best at what they are trying to do. All in all, there is no other company more committed to producing the best, most innovative products possible than Apple.
This is a quote from Tim Cook from the interview. So to be clear, they released the Homepod without Airplay 2 or multi-speaker mode. That product wasn't ready to be released Tim so why was it? - You're breaking your own rule here.
Also iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra dispel this myth he's trying to perpetrate that they don't use their customers as a laboratory. These operating systems are not stable and have needed huge amounts of minor releases to fix bugs.
You didn't do the testing well enough internally and basically treated your customers like lab rats. I hope none of you guys are buying what he's saying in this interview, what he's saying is simply not true.
I'm sure there will be a lot of negative post on this article but i still think Apple make great products, the iPhone X is easily the best iPhone yet (and the best smartphone on the market in my opinion) the iPad Pro is a great device that has evolved to become a more computer like device for a lot of people, the Apple Watch is easily the best smart watch on the market, the AirPods are great and the HomePod is a great sounding speaker that is worth the cost alone.
Ok i've posted my positive thoughts and agree with Tim Cook, it's now time for the negative ones to start flowing
Yes yes & you continue with your collection of potato chips that look like Tim Cook.
The "best" cause it's the latest is almost meaningless & since all iPhones run on the same platform the X's superiority is arguable. Which IPad Pro, 12.9?, 10.5? 9.7? all the above. The best thing they do is make the regular iPad look like bargain at 1/2 the price. If Apple cars about customers why after dropping the 2 most used ports (usb & hdmi) from their MacBooks they couldn't do the courtesy the put an adapter in the damn box. What's $5 to them wholesale is nickel & dimed after sale with a 20x markup.
It's not negative to call things out on its BS. When you want to pretend there's no problems it sends the wrong message that there's nothing to fix & Apple has plenty to fix.. ain't that right Federighi?
"Tax evasion" is a form of fraud, where the taxpayer intentionally behaves in an illegal fashion. What Apple does is tax minimization - paying no more than they have to, based on interpretation of law. If there is no law that prohibits a particular kind of behavior, then it's "exercising a loophole." Everybody, rich and poor, does that if they can. Now, there are times when there will be differences of legal interpretation that may need to be settled in court. You win a few, you lose a few. When the sums at stake are high enough, it's more efficient to go to court than to simply play it safe.
I'd wager there are many thousands of individuals and businesses in the EU that are wealthy enough to follow similar strategies as Apple, but Apple is the biggest fish, so it's the most efficient target for regulators to pursue. And, it also looks really good on their resumes.
If there was a section in every tax return that said, "Now that you've calculated the tax owed, why don't you be a good citizen and pay more, out of the goodness of your heart? Come on, you're doing well, you can afford it, and we've got plenty of good ways to spend it..." However, there is not. And if a corporation did it, which has a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders to generate the maximum after-tax profit... well maybe the shareholders would sue the board of directors, maybe oust them at the next annual shareholder's meeting.
Personally, I'm in favor of redistribution of income through taxation. What lawmakers in the US have done to undo redistribution (tax cuts for business and the wealthy, tax credits and reduced tax rates given to businesses to choose a particular state/community for factory/office siting, etc.) should be a crime, but then, they make the laws, and we elect those lawmakers. :::shrug:::
The bigger problem is a worldwide problem - so long as tax policy differs from nation to nation, state/province to state/province, city to city, there will be opportunity for the rich and multinationals to play one government against the other for economic gain. However, the chances that we will have a world government with the power to take on even the largest taxpayers are next to nil. We all like our local prerogatives, governments, and economic systems (they say "all politics is local") way too much to do something of the sort for the greater good.
I think most people know that. It does, however, offer a level of creativity to the masses that otherwise does not exist. Most causal phone shooters don't want to carry lights/batteries, soft-boxes, stands, reflectors, etc with them on vacation. Or take classes and workshops on how to use them.
If, for some reason, people didn't know that, what's the problem? It's not like they're going to take work away from professionals. And if it makes people happy, that's a good thing.
"the sooner Apple and other phone manufacturers realize that a point and shoot camera, especially on a phone will never be able to compete with professional photography equipment, the better off we all will be."
I trust Apple and other phone manufacturers know that already. And if they didn't/did how are WE better off or not?
What's there to worry about? Certainly professional photo portraitists that understand light and lighting are not threatened or worried.
Personally, I encourage anyone and everyone who has an artistic or creative bent to be able to access and explore that creative desire. And, if Apple and other companies make easy-to-use tools to foster that, well, that's a good thing.
Not quite correct. Shareholders demand share value and a return on their investment (dividends and higher stock price). If Apple can provide that by making and selling fewer products at higher margins, shareholders will be happy.
What Tim says about Apple not making product decisions to appease shareholders or Wall Street, has been true of Apple in general since the beginning. It's their almost disdain for Wall Street and short-term shareholders that for a long time made a lot of people angry and not willing to invest long-term with Apple. It is crazy how so many companies and investors today are reactionary to the quarterly numbers, seemingly not recognizing that some things simply take time for the product, customer or overall market to mature in order to recognize the bigger picture success.
They have not "cheated with the battery performance". What is that even supposed to mean?
Ah yes, the kool-aide drinkers preemptively bashing the free thinkers. How droll.I'm sure there will be a lot of negative post on this article but i still think Apple make great products, the iPhone X is easily the best iPhone yet (and the best smartphone on the market in my opinion) the iPad Pro is a great device that has evolved to become a more computer like device for a lot of people, the Apple Watch is easily the best smart watch on the market, the AirPods are great and the HomePod is a great sounding speaker that is worth the cost alone.
Ok i've posted my positive thoughts and agree with Tim Cook, it's now time for the negative ones to start flowing
Man, can we stop it with the "man, so much hate posts on MR lately" posts already?
Can it once and for all sink in that criticism of a company is mostly based on the fact that the people complaining actually care about seeing improvement?
Can it once and for all sink in that criticism of a company is mostly based on the fact that the people complaining actually care about seeing improvement?
Well that was fun to read. Should get popcorn next time. I mean seriously I have never seen this much extreme bitterness and anger about Apple in forever.
I happen to think they are an awesome company and have no issues with them at all.
I happen to think they are an awesome company and have no issues with them at all.
Just to reiterate, yes we know companies are focused on selling products to consumers, but what separates Apple from other competitors, is they sell a better product to the consumer. Rather others agree with that or not, is up to them.
I think it's pretty obvious that he is referring to the controversy of only 2 months ago about iPhone performance being sneakily lowered to increase battery life in iPhones who's batteries were needing replaced, and how they never told the iPhone owners they were doing this, and how a (relatively) simple battery replacement would increase their iPhones performance significantly.
Lots of people felt cheated by it. I understand why they did it, but do not understand why they never disclosed it.
The fact that it has Face ID is a great start. All of the iPad Pro’s are great devices, I use a 12.9” iPad Pro and have no issues what so ever, it can be used as a laptop replacement for many. The fact that they removed ports happens all the time, they did the same with the 30 pin connector, it moves technology forward without Apple making those decisions nothing would move forward, for example there wouldn’t of been no MacBook Air which was under Steve Jobs by the way so let’s not think that removing ports is a new thing for Apple.
Have Apple made mistakes yes, no one is perfect and I’m not pretending otherwise but it is far from “Apple is doomed” or “Tim Cook should be fired” in fact Apple is growing under Tim Cook, often people who like to focus on the negative forget about the positives, what about the Apple Watch, AirPods and so on? Great devices, but by all means focus on the negatives no one is forcing you to buy Apple products there are other computers, phones, tablets and so on out there if you are not happy.
I'm happy with all of the products they released in 2017, can't complain.