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DavidEsrati said:

Jony Ive is a stylist and ruined the MacBook Pro so he could make a case for his tiny toy- the MacBook Air.
The keyboards were useless, they ditched magsafe - you needed a dongle for everything.
Jony Ive leaving was the best move Apple could make.
Now if someone would talk some sense into Apple about getting serious about small business and return Apple Server- and fix Apple ID to work easily for corporate owned devices we might actually get somewhere.

There's no need for needing a server these days. Apple already has an AppleID solution for enterprise. It's called Apple Business Manager and they also have a lite MDM called Apple Business Essentials. With an MDM there's no reason to have a server at all really. If you need storage there are more than plenty of storage solutions out there that work great with Apple products. 

https://www.apple.com/business/enterprise/it/

https://www.apple.com/business/essentials/

Fortune500 companies all over the world use Apple Business Manager and an MDM solution such as Jamf to manage their Macs, iOS devices and AppleTV's. IBM for one is one of the largest major companies that use Macs in its environment using ABM and Jamf. They also use it for their iOS devices as well. 

You don't image a Mac anymore as it's all configured by MDM out of the box, or you restore it and let the MDM set it back up the way you want it. iOS devices are also setup automatically with the MDM, same goes for AppleTV's. There's no reason to do something like Netbooting, or QT streaming server, etc. There's just simply no reason to have macOS Server anymore. 

Tim Cook is the best CEO ever for Apple, yes better than Steve Jobs. Apple wouldn't be what it is today without Tim Cook. People think Steve Jobs was GOD and nothing ever went wrong under Steve Jobs. These people either have poor memories (or are stuck in the late 90's-early 2000's), or they weren't even born yet. There were plenty of things that didn't go right, outright failures and things that didn't progress very far at all. 

-Ping
-.Mac (had to be rebranded to mobileMe)
-mobileMe (had to be rebranded to iCloud)
-iPhone 4 AntennaGate (you're holding it wrong!)
-G4 Macs (barely any advances YoY with sometimes the new model slower than the older model)
-G5 Macs (barely any advances YoY and broken promises)
-Announcing products and shipping them months afterwards. (this was classic during the G3/G4 days)

These are just some examples of shit that didn't go right under Steve Jobs. Very few called for him to be fired when these happened. 

I ask this question every single time someone says Tim should be fired...who would be a better CEO for Apple than Tim Cook and NOBODY has ever answered that question, not one single time yet they seem to have all of the solutions for Apple. Just fire Tim Cook! 

And who gives a shit what Steve Jobs thinks of Apple today. He's not here anymore and it's not his company. You don't know what Steve would think and it doesn't matter anyways. It's an absolutely pointless mindset to have. 

manwithnoname said:

I don't think the majority of the public care about AR/VR. It will just be another product some people will buy. Its no great inovation or world sharttering tech. Techno heads will buy it up as they do with anything new, whether it's useful; or not! That most likley is not what Apple fanatics want to hear but it is what it is.

The majority of the public most likely didn't care about a smartphone until Apple changed that. The majority of the public didn't care about an ultra-portable tablet device (iPad) until Apple changed that. We could go on and on about what the public doesn't care about, until it does something that changes their lives. 

9secondkox2 said:

timmillea said:

The Mac Studio is a design monstrosity and should never have been produced by Apple. I agree that it was probably an interim product before the Apple Silicon Mac Pro could be released. Even so, it was a terrible mistake, tarnishing the design credentials of a design-focussed brand. 

A 15" MacBook Air, if true, would be a further dilution of the brand. The MBA is a small and light laptop that fits in an envelope. 

Since Sir Jony Ive left, Apple appears to have lost its way.

There is a momentum from previous successes but any more crap from Apple will start to impact. 

There is and will ever be only one Jony Ive. 

Why Cook didn’t do more to keep him, I’ll never know. Outside of jobs, Ive was THE soul of Apple. 

It’s definitely a different Apple now and not for the better. But… Jobs and Ive were so amazing, influential and competent at passing down their ethos that Apple is still and will continue to be far and away ahead of everyone else. Just wish it had the same level of care. 

IMO, he also hurt Apple with his stupid designs. He always put form over function and only seemed to really care about what it looked like. Today's Macs are so much better than in the Jony Ive era. His obsession with thinness was just stupid and created products that didn't function to their potential because of it. And the stupid little things like the chamfered edges that only looked good until you started to use it and then it was completely scratched up and looked like shit (also increased the production cost), or designing a Bluetooth mouse with the charging port on the bottom just so you didn't see the port which made it so you can't use it while charging. Or, making a laptop so thin that it created cooling issues and was also so thin regular ports no longer fit into the design and they had to design a keyboard that apparently nobody liked, even after a couple revisions. This along with many others just made Apple release products that didn't live up to their full potential. 

Apple needs to shit on the pot or get off it when it comes to games. Every couple of years Apple does this and we see maybe 1 thing happen and then it fizzles out. Couple years later Apple announces it's making a push into gaming again, rinse and repeat. 

If they're gonna do it then do it and stick with it. It's not gonna happen overnight but they now have a great hardware platform and if developers can see where they can make an iOS game and a macOS game at the same time perhaps more major gaming studios will choose to make those versions. Apple needs to stick with it though and not just say they're gonna do something and then 6 months later let it all fizzle out. 

clexman said:

Not sure what I was expecting, but I thought there would be a little more "Scary" to the presentation.

Looks like the accessories are still lightning. That's a bummer.

Why is lightning for charging a bummer? WTF difference does it make? It even comes with the cable necessary to charge it so it's not like you need to go buy a cable. It's not going to charge any faster with USB-C. I don't get what the big deal is there. 

Why would Apple care to cooperate with a convicted felon? Regardless, like most have said here it doesn't work that way and his dumbass will never understand it. He'll just go on an endless tirade of BS spewing to the max about how bad Tim Apple is and Apple in general. 

Everything doesn't need to have the same level of success as the iPhone. All, the iPhone also wasn't a success right off either. It took about 3 versions before it became extremely popular. People are so fuckin' impatient and also don't understand the markets Apple competes in sometimes. The first revision of AVP wasn't meant to be a mass market product and Apple even said it's not going to and I don't think they could support it being one anyways from an assembly standpoint. 

This sounds like the iPhone all over again where people initially put it down saying it's too expensive and nobody's gonna buy something so different, etc, etc. Apple shut these people up fairly quickly and those same people probably own an iPhone today. A new product needs time to mature. 

chasm said:

To answer the questions from people wanting the Apple card in their non-US countries: when Apple can find a financial partner willing to jump through the bureaucratic hoops to offer it in those countries. Apple's lack of fees probably really hurts it in this regard.

This...IMO this is really a great card for the consumer, but probably not so great for the financial backer of the card. They never make any money off me as I just use it for the cash back and then pay the balance off as soon as I can pay it. And I also love the savings account where I put nearly all of my savings into because of its great APR. Yes, there are better ones out there but it's just so easy to use and maintain the Apple Card. 

I think there are too many responsible people using the Apple Card so its partner isn't making the money off it they had hoped and its making it harder for partners in other counties to see where they'd benefit from partnering with Apple on a credit card. 

mikethemartian said:

The more often I read stories like this the more likely it seems to me that he is going to be pushed out as CEO. I start getting the sense there is a PR campaign going on.

 Well I think he only has about 5 years left anyways before he'd want to retire. The company is doing just fine right now and I don't see any reason to make Tim leave. I think Apple would be worse off if Tim left right now. Sometimes you don't know what you had until it's not there anymore.