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  • Can Apple innovate if iPhone remains the biggest slice of its revenues?

    HazenHazen
    Tim Cook can’t lead Apple to produce innovative products because he’s an operations guy. He knows how to sell price points tied to feature sets, not innovative products. That’s why we have two sets of AirPods 4. We only need one, we should only have one, and all of the innovative features of AirPods could have been boiled down into one strong, focused product…But we have two, because Tim couldn’t make AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 Pro because there‘a already AirPods Pro and that would be too confusing, so he split them into AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation. Y’know, because Active Noise Cancellation is a feature tied to a higher price point so Apple has to remove it for one set of AirPods to get you to spend more money…again, Tim likes price points tied to features, not products. 

    Look at Vision Pro. Worst battery life ever in an Apple product, more expensive than virtually Apple’s entire product portfolio, requires a big clunky battery bigger than an iPhone that you have to carry around, no killer feature, no innovative new way to work, no value proposition, and if you break it, Apple has to replace the entire device because they don’t yet know how to repair them. 

    That’s not innovation. That’s Tim Cook trying to sell you something you don’t need and hoping that it pays off for Apple’s bottom line.

    Innovation at Apple is dead so long as Tim Cook is the CEO. 

    Period. 
    grandact73williamlondon

  • Can Apple innovate if iPhone remains the biggest slice of its revenues?

    HazenHazen
    …You can even look to the Apple silicon transition. We finally had an opportunity to give all the devices new powerful chips and drive down the cost of products by keeping everything in house. Yet, after M1, Tim leveraged the new chips to make every single product line more expensive. So expensive in fact, that they can introduce new products like the MacBook Air 15 inch that replaced the price point of the MacBook Pro 15 inch…because that’s now a 16 inch MacBook Pro and is over $1000 more expensive. Remember when the MacBook Pros got a $500 price increase because of the Touch Bar, and then they killed the Touch Bar and the product prices remained the same? 

    That’s Tim’s Apple. Slowly iterate on a well established product lines while not making any big changes because you’ve convinced your customers that straying from the norm is tied to a price increase, and since the market is already saturated and can’t bare anymore insane Tim Cook price bumps, then just kinda spin the wheels with small, sad feature updates until your customers can bare a price increase, and when they can, then give them a new features to justify it. 

    John Ternus for CEO! I have full faith in him to throw out Tim’s crappy management and to refocus on what makes Apple products great again…because it’s not just a price tag Tim…it’s not just a price tag.
    williamlondon

  • Is Apple Vision Pro a 'first year flop' or tomorrow, today?

    HazenHazen
    It’s a complete failure. While introducing the iPad, before the product was unveiled, you knew exactly what the purpose of the product was. Even after 2 and a half hours of introduction, the Vision Pro still didn’t clearly define what it was supposed to do. I don’t need apps floating around my physical space and Apple didn’t give me a single example of why anyone would want that. 

    You’re a fool if you think this is anything more than Tim Cook trying to capitalize on a new product category. They even want developers to figure out what to do with it without offering any real solutions to the many problems a headset creates. 

    This isn’t the future. The future is much less intrusive and offers technology that fades into your daily life so deliberately that it becomes as indefensible as a toothbrush. This is a flying Ferrari in a no flight zone being sold to Walmart shoppers. 
    9secondkox2muthuk_vanalingamgrandact73

  • Apple Vision Pro review: six month stasis

    HazenHazen
    In order to create a community of dedicated developers, and customers that push your product to new heights and drive valuable feedback that serves to improve the product development - you actually need people to buy it. Steve Jobs understood that when the iPad was designed to bridge the gap between smart phones and computers and did so at an innovative consumer price.

    Vision Pro was dead the moment they announced it. You can’t expect people to splash on a new product category with the inferred promise that in order to reach a cheaper mass market version, you’ll have to cheapen and strip away all the powerful technology inside to give you a deluded glimpse of what the pro product offered last generation. 

    It’s big, it’s ugly, it’s too expensive, it has the worst battery life of any modern Apple product from more than the last decade, it’s uncomfortable, it takes up your entire bag without replacing a single other product effectively, and the only innovative new paradigm that Apple brought to the product category (letting people see your eyes) is probably the worst part of the device and doesn’t look remotely like how it’s presented in the advertisements. 

    Kill it with fire. 
    xixo

  • Surgeons say Apple Vision Pro saves them pain and injury

    HazenHazen
    What a sensationalist pile of bull crap. This is like when Apple introduced the first 5G iPhone and said that medical professionals could perform surgery from across the country which has never once happened. Hospitals buy all sorts of junk because they have special interest groups to test new technologies. To think that a single product is going to inspire a wave of late retirement is laughable.