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Tim Cook Says Apple Working on 'Some Really Great Stuff' in New Product Categories
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iOS 7 is amazing. Sorry you have awful tastehope you get used to it though, isn't going anywhere
Taste is a matter of opinion. I personally think the new design is awful. I call it the new fruit loop color scheme. Glad you like it. I don't. Per the new beta changes are in the works because others don't like the bright colors either.
As far as iOS and OSX. The last releases are the buggiest that Apple has ever done.
I wish I could revert back to iOS. 6 and mountain lion until the bugs are fixed.
Shame on Apple for letting the bugs go for so long or for even releasing them in the first place.
It means the candidate would have to be approved by the board. A boring, button down, bean counting person is more likely to please the board than someone who can actually get something done. Scott Forstall.
Steve knew this from his own experience. Enter Cook aka John Skully version 2.
An iPhone 4 with iOS 6 is great. Add iOS 7 to it And it becomes very slow......
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My iPad 3 crashes all the time. My iPhone 4S not as much. IMAP email is buggy for both.
I find it funny that all of these pundits and haters rail on Apple for not producing a "breakthrough product that rocks the world" every year like the iPhone and iPad -- yet no other competitor has produced a breakthrough product since... well, since... I can't remember the last time.
Sorry, a bigger screen isn't a breakthrough. Eye tracking that no one uses isn't a breakthrough. Battery-sucking "Widgets" doesn't count as a breakthrough. Netbooks? Please.
Maybe BlackBerry, when they had the first widespread e-mail phone. Palm Pilot -- being a small, affordable PDA. But I wouldn't call those "rock the world" things. Anything else?
Sorry, a bigger screen isn't a breakthrough. Eye tracking that no one uses isn't a breakthrough. Battery-sucking "Widgets" doesn't count as a breakthrough. Netbooks? Please.
Maybe BlackBerry, when they had the first widespread e-mail phone. Palm Pilot -- being a small, affordable PDA. But I wouldn't call those "rock the world" things. Anything else?
Skully [sic]? Bean counter? Apparently you know nothing about Cook, and very little about AAPL.
If iOS & OS X bother you so much then why don't you just go to Android, or WP and Windows 8.1? I'm not trying to provoke you; it's a serious question.
If iOS or OS X gave me so many issues, I'd switch in a second. Yes, there are a few things that I don't like about both but nothing is perfect, and nothing is a deal-breaker... So I choose not to switch.
Yeah, sometimes I don't get it. I've never had a issue with any iOS or Mac OS X version to this day. On Mountain Lion, I had a few minor issues. But I've been doing an upgrades since Snow Leopard and a clean install of Mavericks solved the problems.
My reference was to the issues between Sculley and Jobs leading to Steve's departure from Apple.
Scott Forstall? The guy responsible for Apple maps and the guy who Bob Mansfield and Jony Ive would refuse to meet with without Cook present? The guy who Tony Fadell said "got what he deserved" for being fired? He was the guy to lead Apple? Yeah he would have lead a lot of people to quit.
Why do you keep absolving Steve? It was Steve's recommendation to the board that Tim Cook replace him as CEO. He made that decision, the board just rubber stamped it. As far as Scott Forstall getting things done, what exactly would that be? Especially considering iOS stalled under his leadership.
Except the years that the story is exactly the stuff he's talking about them doing.
Why do you continually attack Steve? I'm curious. He's dead and can't possibly be responsible for Apple now. People at Apple are highly compensated to do a job. I think we got our $1.00 per year's worth from Steve. Let him rest, please.
really? can you quote us where he's said they'll be releasing new categories in years past?
i bet you can't.
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when did the whiners and debbie-downers take over on MR?
pathetic.
Apple Needs Some New Products to Breathe some Fresh Air. You got Billions of Dollars, USE IT?
Whats the point of having all that money stashed away in Swiss/OffShore Bank Accounts, When every year you are coming out with iPhone8 and iPad 27.
There tons of industries you can get into why not get into the Video Game Hardware Business and Make a App Store. Since 60% of IOS and iPad Sales are driving by Games.
Apple Needs to be more innovate or there are going to end up like another Microsoft, in which there playing catch up. This June iPhone will have been on the market for 8 Years. Apple needs to stop being Lazy.....
Whats the point of having all that money stashed away in Swiss/OffShore Bank Accounts, When every year you are coming out with iPhone8 and iPad 27.
There tons of industries you can get into why not get into the Video Game Hardware Business and Make a App Store. Since 60% of IOS and iPad Sales are driving by Games.
Apple Needs to be more innovate or there are going to end up like another Microsoft, in which there playing catch up. This June iPhone will have been on the market for 8 Years. Apple needs to stop being Lazy.....
2013 http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/23/4258272/apple-tim-cook-teases-exciting-new-product-category
there will be "really great stuff coming in the fall and across all of 2014."
2012 http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberth...m-cook-the-product-pipeline-is-full-of-stuff/
"The bottom line: Expect to see a lot more products and services this yearincluding, to read between Cooks lines, innovations that may surprise usfrom a company that continues to set the pace in computing, communications, and media alike."
Even news sites are acknowledging this ... "Why does Tim Cook keep talking about new Apple products?" http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/29/5041410/tim-cook-and-new-apple-products-a-short-history
But if you start reading these articles words like "Potential" "With great interest" Its not a given. It may take years to set up new devices. Not just physically producing them, but setting up the supporting ecosystem up around it. Whether it accessories, services and software. Perhaps deals need to be made with other companies and/or buy companies that have technology that Apple needs in these products.
You can't always setup a great product in a hurry.
I believe the gaming industry is a byproduct of iOS and does not alone drive iPhones & iPads. The iPhone came out first with the application store sometime later.
I agree with you on Cook's tone. It's painful to watch him try to look excited in the Keynotes-- it's just not who he is.
That said though, when did it happen that the CEO was supposed to be P. T. Barnum? The CEO's chief role as an officer of the company is to execute. Leave the rhetoric to a communications expert. Jobs was rare in that he could do both.
Exactly..The day apple starts choosing its CEO on his/her ability to be awesome at keynote events...as opposed to the day'n'day management of the company..they begin to go downhill. With jobs it was different, he had the entire history and persona behind him of founding not only apple but other great companies..Unless apple hires elon musk as their next CEO they'd be better off to stick to candidates who can actually run the company properly.