quadra 610

Here we go. 

Like a jilted lover out for revenge. 

Disable the touch bar, for a "bar" exam. 

Bar exam...






I'll be here all week, folks.

What's interesting is that if these strictures were applied to the rest of the industry, executive offices would look like a barren wasteland industry-wide. Especially at Microsoft. 

Apple execs get a pay cut for a slight decline in performance, yet Nadella still has a job at Microstupid.  

Can I say it this time? I've never had the pleasure. 

Doomed™

Apple's had their (brilliant, award-winning) Mac vs. PC campaign, so fair enough. 

Reality, however:

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/12/02/macbooks-top-consumer-reports-reliability/

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/05/29/apple-tops-consumer-reports-satisfaction-survey-for-computer-technical-support

And for well over a decade now:

http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=147&catid=&Itemid=212&i=Personal+Computers

You can do all the marketing and dress-up you want, but the product must eventually create its own dialogue on its own merits. 

Oh they *are* cultural values. Ones that are about seniority, honour (family, patriarchal), position, and saving face. 

They simply don't work in this day and age when it comes to the connection between products and their customers. 

It used to be this way in many of the Asian airlines, for example (still is, in some respects.) It was seen as disrespectful and otherwise improper for subordinates (like the First Officer) to question the Captain or take the controls for the greater good, even when the latter was obviously in the wrong (and sometimes dangerously so.) This resulted in bad cockpit resource management, in turn resulting in entirely preventable tragedies.

The problem is very much cultural. Not everything translates well (or safely) into the 21st century. 

This is about sheer audio quality. Looks will come second. 

It’s a flip phone.

Samsung is trying to sell you a $2000 flip phone.

3.5-5 million units per quarter, as usual.

They won’t sell more than what’s roughly in this range, and they never really have, at least as long as I’ve had an account on AI. 

I don’t see the issue. 

You don’t “revert back”, you just revert.