This is where he will respond with truly innovative things like an SD card slot and a removable battery...These conversations have home the same way since 2008.
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Tim Cook Says Apple Working on 'Some Really Great Stuff' in New Product Categories
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This is where he will respond with truly innovative things like an SD card slot and a removable battery...These conversations have home the same way since 2008.
That's my point
Iterations of the cell phone are just that, iterations. Slight improvements and I'm not down on apple for doing that. I want them to keep improving the iPhone. I own a iPhone 5 and I'm eagerly waiting to see what the 6 will be.
As for the time span being short and give Cook some time, well he's been promising new products, such as last year and nothing. Additionally the rumor of the iWatch and iTV (or what ever they'll be called) have been rampant. Apple has not been able to roll out a smart watch and that delay is allowing their competitors a leg up.
Apple also spends a lot less in R&D then MS, Google and Samsung, so its hard to innovate at the same level when you spend less.
Just my $.02. I'm not hating Apple but rather, I hate to see them seemingly lose their fire and tenacity under Cook.
In fact Tim cook in the few interviews that he has done, has pointed to the fact that Apple will always stay true to its core. His clear belief is that companies go down when they deviate from their core set of skills and start to "want" to do everything and anything. He believes that apple would be in a good shape if they did a few things at a time and did them with the same level of dedication as they have in the past. I would be surprised if the new devices being spoken off do not share the same attention to detail (both at a design/implementation level and a concept-market level) that the ipod , iphone and ipad.
Although its his job to continuously say that they are working on innovative products all the time, the emphasis on new products in the last 6-8 months is something that is surely a strategy to tell investors, current apple shareholders and consumers..that SOMETHING IS COMMING..and SOON..
Ah, but Mike, he did say "...anyone "reasonable" would consider Apple's upcoming products to be in new categories."
who cares,
a watch is useless + non innovative, wearables are pointless
a tv would be cool if they can get the content and user interface right
incremental updates to all other products is zzZzzZzzZzz
you can see why the stock is flatlined
a watch is useless + non innovative, wearables are pointless
a tv would be cool if they can get the content and user interface right
incremental updates to all other products is zzZzzZzzZzz
you can see why the stock is flatlined
That's my point
Apple also spends a lot less in R&D then MS, Google and Samsung, so its hard to innovate at the same level when you spend less.
Is that really an apples to apples comparison? Apple, Microsoft, Google and Samsung all have a bit of crossover here and there, but for the most part those are four different companies with four different missions. Google and Samsung are in so many different areas that it would stand to reason that their R&D budgets would be so bloated. I don't keep up with Microsoft too much really, so I have no idea what their budgets in that area are.
Then there's Apple. As of right now they are really in 6 different areas: desktop computers, mobile computers, tablets, phones, the cloud, and software. They've obviously started recently tinkering more and more with TV and wearables seem like the next frontier for them. But just looking at a broad comparison of the portfolio of products that each company you mentioned offers it would be a pretty obvious assumption that, based on each company's goals, that Apple would bring up the rear in R&D spending among them.
So the stock is flatlining because the investors and shareholders have SEEN the capability that apple's move into wearables and/or television offer and are not very impressed? The real reason is that many investors are begining to treat apple as a bluechip stock rather than an all out growth company as in the past. Its apple's job to prove otherwise and new product categories will certainly help...Companies the size of apple do not traditionally grow as rapidly as apple has in the past...Because apple has been and still is secretive about its future plans..investors will most likely sit on the edge and see where the company is headed.
http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/4...31-apples-transition-into-a-blue-chip-company
Agreed. He may be a very good operations person, but he's not a good company spokesman/evangelist.
They need to put Federighi in that role. He knows how to work a room. Tim is just a creepy ghoul in front of the camera.
Under Steve Jobs it still took 6 years from the iPod until the iPhone came out. Another 3 years till the iPad came out after that.
For Apple, speed is not the primary factor. They are more concerned when a product is perfected enough to be released. When certain markets are mature enough or a technology makes it feasible.
Rolling out new products at a faster pace is not always enough to stay competitive. Remember the Samsung Galaxy S4? Meh...not really impressive. The Galaxy Gear? Meh...the same....Google Glass...Meh...don't think what peoples looking for.
The ID Touch is not improving on the existing iPhone? They took something that did not work very well and perfected it. It probably going to be implemented in mobile payment system in the future. iBeacon is already taken off and is planned to be used in stadiums and retail store outlets.
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Correct..R&D is a function of the products you are catering too..If a company has 100 different products it sells..it will usually outspend another company on research that only has 10 products..Company B may end up having more $ per product for Research and development...Take laptops for example..I do not get the impression that apple has under-developed or under-spend on the development of the mac book line of laptops compared to what samsung has done with their laptops. Apple has traditionally focused its efforts on a few products at a time while samsung has always tried to enter every possible market where it can compete.
I'll by an iWatch if it tells me when Apple is finally going to update their thunderbolt display.
I'm kind of glad we have little clue on what's coming out this year. These massive leaks of recent times ruin all the fun! And all the leaks come from outsourced part suppliers. Apple is reducing those a bit. Imagine if they outsourced all that new sapphire production. We'd have iWatch cover glass and iPhone screen shapes leaked all over the place by now! I want to be surprised and delighted and amazed.
[And after 12 years, will I ever graduate from macrumors 6502? <sniff>]
[And after 12 years, will I ever graduate from macrumors 6502? <sniff>]
It is unfortunate that he seems to feel obliged to say stuff like this. One thing Steve did well was keep quite and build mystery around what was going on. I feel that he could do this because he basically didn't care what Wall Street or anyone else thought and just got on with doing stuff and brought it to market when it was ready.
I'd be absolutely thrilled if Tim would prioritize the stability of iOS 7 and safari on my iPad Air and iPhone 5s before he starts figuring out what else he can sell.
Or it's the fact that Apple always markets their 'premium' materials in every product. They are proud to use a lot of aluminum and glass, and so when they released a plastic iPhone, it was, for some, a step back and not in line with Apple's design philosophy.
At the end of the day, however, I agree with you and believe the 5C is a great phone. It just isn't 'the best' and that's what we've come to expect from Apple.
I think the true problem was that if they hadn't released the 5C, people could buy the 5 and have a phone that essentially 'looks' just like the newest flagship 5S.
An iPad with a USB or even an SD slot?
Oh my!
<roar>INNOVATION !!!</roar>
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Nope. uWatch
Oh my!
<roar>INNOVATION !!!</roar>
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Nope. uWatch
Apple has never started new product categories. All of their revolutionary products existed in one way or another (safe for the MBA maybe).
It doesn't matter whether the tech industry needs a watch revolution. All signs on the market (success of Fitbit, Pebble, Nike Fuelband, Endomondo, etc) point to the fact that this is indeed a product category that is becoming more relevant. What matters to the customer is relevant.
And why doesn't it make sense to the rest of the product line-up? What are your criteria to judge that?
And here is Apple's Ethos (Vision statement)
It seems that an iWatch fits perfectly in that.
I think you are talking from your own preference as opposed to properly analysing what is going on here.
