Just consider iOS 10.0 through 10.2 as public betas. Problem solved. Ah, you want the features of iOS 10 incl. interoperability with the new features on other people's devices already in September. Well, then you have a tough decision to make.
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What to Expect From Apple's Third Quarter Earnings Results Today
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Today we will hear the same "pipeline" joke that Tim always brings up during the earnings report.
Yeah, if only iPhones only had a third of their marketshare or if only Apple has lower profit margins on iPhones. Then it wouldn't be all about the iPhone nearly as much.
Not sure I understand your point - but all of us need to not mistake what Cook built versus what Cook inherited.
Praying iPhone 6SS is gonna flop hard. I love my apple devices but Apple seriously needs a realizy check.
But lets be honest i cant wait for Tim Crooks "we have some increeeeedible products coming out"
But lets be honest i cant wait for Tim Crooks "we have some increeeeedible products coming out"
So you are paying your fair share that allows others to get more than 16 GB (eg, if Apple started at 32 GB but raised the price by $50, then you would pay your part so others could get >16 GB without paying $100 more than now).
Helium, age, and the net entropy of the universe would disagree with you.
You, and many others, need to stop with the references to Cook satisfying stockholders. As a very long term stockholder Cook has been an unmitigated DISASTER - period !!!
Maybe it's time for Tim Cook to leave so he can devote 100% of his time to his social activism and Apple can get back to innovating b4 it becomes just another gadget company.
The bad thing is: This is because people (aside from the most rabid of Apple fanboys) have been figuring out exactly what those of us who have been "with" Apple long-term have been saying for the past several years, which amounts to: "when Apple lost Steve they also, quite literally, lost their mind." It's pretty much all turning to *censored*; especially the UI, but also the "interesting" concept that removing features is "upgrading" (and don't get me started about how terrible things have become in the enterprise/education industry - the basic Apple tools, such as ARD, are no longer remotely reliable, but are instead colossal rotten bug-fests). Anyway, it's very easy to go on-and-on about how quality at Apple has taken a tremendous nose-dive, starting almost as soon as Steve began relinquishing control due to illness, and which accelerated upon his demise. You can't keep destroying everything that made Apple great and expect people not to notice.
The good news is, that unlike when the Big 3 stopped making great, or even good cars, and began building trash (thus destroying their reputation for decades), people seem to be noticing the issues with Apple quickly (it took a long time for most of us to realize American cars had turned to complete unmitigated *censored*). Maybe we collectively learned something from the mistakes of "American Cars!" fanboyism and are thus more open to quickly turning on once-great companies making once-great products when those companies and products begin to suck. (This is good news because it gives Apple a chance to quickly turn-around again, rather than face decades of trying to rebuild a destroyed reputation.)
The good news is, that unlike when the Big 3 stopped making great, or even good cars, and began building trash (thus destroying their reputation for decades), people seem to be noticing the issues with Apple quickly (it took a long time for most of us to realize American cars had turned to complete unmitigated *censored*). Maybe we collectively learned something from the mistakes of "American Cars!" fanboyism and are thus more open to quickly turning on once-great companies making once-great products when those companies and products begin to suck. (This is good news because it gives Apple a chance to quickly turn-around again, rather than face decades of trying to rebuild a destroyed reputation.)
Either fire him or reduces pay a lot, and stock shares, that might get a fire under his rear end.
I've been using windows a windows surface pro 4 recently and I have to say i'm very impressed. I'm starting to see people move away from iPads in meetings and starting to use these devices at my company. I'm also seeing a lot of them in my grad school classes. There aren't nearly as many mac books as I saw in undergrad.
I really wish Apple would launch a competitor to Microsoft SP4. I'm going to hold out until Spring and if Apple doesn't release a viable competitor I think i'm going I'm going to retire my Mac book Air for a SP4/5.
I really wish Apple would launch a competitor to Microsoft SP4. I'm going to hold out until Spring and if Apple doesn't release a viable competitor I think i'm going I'm going to retire my Mac book Air for a SP4/5.
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I'm waiting to hear from you why people shouldn't feel this way? Are you seeing something from Apple the rest of us aren't? Just look at the opinions here...no new products, no innovation, buggy releases, etc. A few years ago, the "doomed" thing was sort of a joke, but as each year goes by, it's starting to become more and more of a possibility.
I would say that iPhone and Macs are the symptom - Levinson and Cook are the problem.
In fact, some analysts have forecasted that iPhone sales may be as low as 38 million to 40 million units, a decline of up to 20 percent compared to the year-ago quarter. If the estimates prove to be accurate, it would mark Apple's worst quarter of iPhone growth ever in the smartphone's nine-year history.
Well thank goodness Apple is planning on releasing a nearly identical upgraded iPhone this year! Seeing that the incremental iPhone 6S didn't exactly light up sales as expected, releasing pretty much same phone again in 2016 while calling it "new" and charging premium price points will surely make Apple's investors and Wall Street happy! Great strategy. Not.
Well thank goodness Apple is planning on releasing a nearly identical upgraded iPhone this year! Seeing that the incremental iPhone 6S didn't exactly light up sales as expected, releasing pretty much same phone again in 2016 while calling it "new" and charging premium price points will surely make Apple's investors and Wall Street happy! Great strategy. Not.
Apple needs to fire on all cylinders. Buy the best companies out there so now you are the best+erase competition. Upgrade every product to the latest technology and highest quality, push specs. Increase QC and chop heads for every buggy OS release. They have tons of money for God's sake. But Tim Cook is not the man, he's too soft. It's like a green activist driving an F1 car in the world championship.
I do like this lol, but apple waits the hell long, to release the new machines. Well there are some buyers allready bought new machines and may not buy apple machines. Those that bought wont buy a second one. And those that wait, remains to be seen, what technology offers at the time of macbook pro will be released. Surfacebook 2 is also rumored to be released by the end of september and others may follow too. Buyers not necessarly will buy a mac, so that depends in end, to the situation given. But apple will have to offer something special that put macbook pro aside of others, to be of interesst, this is how i see it