phone-ui-guy

red oak said:

Honeywell has none of the DNA traits that makes Apple Apple.   It's end user experience, confusing websites and messaging, and design are plain awful.   I'm surprised if a C-level person from that company can come into Apple and help the company be better     

And why was not someone internally groomed/choosen for such an important position?    There is a breakdown in succession planning at Apple if they feel they need to go to the outside for this 

wizard69 said:

I've suspected this for a long time now.    Frankly I really doubt that Apple made money selling grossly over priced video monitors that had little applicability outside of Apples eco-System.    Sadly I had at times wished that Apple would actually produce a video monitor that was well integrated with its laptops via TB but I just don't think they understand user needs anymore.    With TB3/USB-C charging the monitor could have become the ideal "dock" for ones laptop, instead we got half implemented and grossly over priced solutions from Apple.   Hopefully with market demand now from Apple and other USB-C based laptops we will see some competition to deliver reasonably priced an functionally complete docking monitors for these new laptop designs.

In the long run this is a good thing for Apple users.

Soli said:

foggyhill said:

phone-ui-guy said:

boredumb said:

"...its existing one billion installed base of iPhone users..."
Didn't the "one billion" figure refer to all Apple devices and computers active?
Anyone remember more accurately?

Oh, and, "...almost ten years later we have devolved into a society of buffoons..."
Actually, I believe studies show we have always pretty much been a society of buffoons.  

In this keynote it was said that they sold their 1 Billionth iPhone. DED has misquoted the information between the quote you remember and what was said about the iPhones sold. It is safe to assume that there is some large number of the 1B iPhones that are no longer in use. Two things turn me off about DED's articles. First, the tone in which he writes. This article in a certain sense does what he is deriding other journalists for doing. He pushes his is own narrative (by insinuating he is the only journalist that gets Apple since he attacks everyone else) when he too could ask the good questions and present the information so we can make up our own minds. Second, as this post pointed out he plays fast and loose with facts to suit his needs. Saying Apple has 1B installed base of iPhones certainly doesn't make the article better. It does however further his narrative and undercut him in the eyes of people that know facts being stretched. He could have gotten the facts right and it would not have detracted from the point of the article at all. Saying 1B iPhones sold is still a pretty damn spiffy accomplishment. DED, if you read my comments... Do please consider your tone. If you think the tone is fine, please consider getting an outside editor to review some of your work. I really do believe it would expand your journalistic influence.

There are probably 1B active IOS devices though.

Apple announced in 2014 that they had sold over 1B iOS-based device, and in January of this year, during their 1Q2016 quarter earning reports for the last quarter of the 2015 calendar year that they had over 1B active iOS-based devices in use.