Dan_Dilger

sirlance99 said:

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Imagine if Apple run by some ultra privelaged rich dick who thinks he's smarter than he really is, like Elon.

Funny, because the only dick who thinks he is smarter than he really is, is you. 

Once you’re able to take one of your long winded advertisement articles and actually apply it to criticism about any of the weaknesses that Apple has, you’re just a sorry soul that wouldn’t exist And nobody would know of, not that many people do now, if Apple didn’t exist. 

Just once, talk about, in these long articles of yours,  something Apple doesn’t do well in detail. It’d make you a lot more balanced. 

I absolutely wouldn't be all over Google if I hadn't written about the rise of Apple from an inside position, that's for sure. 

I would still have existed, however, not sure how your logic is trying to work there. 

I actually do work to find things I can legitimately criticize about Apple. What I find is that it's really hard to be accurate and correct when doing this. Look at literally every "balanced" writer out there complaining about things and turning minor situations into dramatic problems that never actually materialize. They are almost always wrong in their thinking. They please people like you. I don't write to juice up haters and cynics and assemble a bunch of cranky old guys as adoring fans so I can monetize them with hats with my name on it.

I write to be an accurate journalist and to attempt to correctly say what's happening and to predict what will happen based on historical trends. And I have been right far more often than not, as my 15 years of stuff on the web makes clear. Thousands of articles predicting the rise and success of what Apple was doing culminated in today's trillion-dollar iPhone maker inventing the future alone.  I didn't cause any of it, I just observed correctly what was happening in a world that contradicted every word I wrote until they realized I had been correct. I actually do have fans that I've made extremely wealthy because I made them more comfortable about their investments in a world that was deeply cynical that Apple could ever compete against commodity. I didn't provide investment advice, I only laid out accurately what was happening. 

k2kw said:

Trump went far too easy on Apple with the Tariffs.   He should have imposed at least 100% tariffs, but unfortunately he tied his success to the stock market too much which Apple is the biggest compAny on it,   Trump protecting the Rich when he talks about American workers.

Who do you think pays tariffs, "corporations"? American Workers pay the taxes on imports. 

And if you're just picking up that Trump is protecting the rich rather than the coal miners and farmers he attracted with his white nationalist platform, wow. You're slow. 

k2kw said:

We’ve been  hearing for years that Siri would get better but it still sucks.

A lazy cynic can say that about anything. Say something of value that's interesting. 

k2kw said:

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Yes, one of the things Apple really needs to work on improving. But it is well-positioned to do that, given that it has powerful on-device hardware and has Siri deployed across a billion users.  

Hey are the going to release that new Game Playing Apple TV You were talking about a few months back.   Seems like they really missed an opportunity with so many people home now - especially the kids.  Disney plus reports 50 million Activasions.   Did Apple TV even get 10 million paid yet?

Apple released the "game playing" Apple TV 4K in 2017 and launched Arcade for it a year ago. 

I speculated that Apple might update it last fall with the A12X but the latest rumors say this fall with a newer A14, which will be much more of a leap.

Lots of people like to talk about how crazy cheap Fire sticks and Chromecasts are, but they (along with any Android box) are really bad. Terrible. Apple TV has some remaining flaws to fix, but its becoming a really nice experience.

As you know, any time an Apple user buys Disney+ the App Store gets a cut, so it's not really a competitor for TV+. And more so than even Netflix, Disney+ and the ATV channels all promote ATV as an app, sort of an "app store" of services. Which also promotes TV+. The new content on TV+ is very high quality, and ATV is the best way to watch it. 

k2kw said:

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WarrenBuffduckh said:

More relevant to the Q. “ Will the COVID-19 disaster sink Apple's premium hardware?” is that we’re waiting, waiting and waiting for AirTile, AirPower, AppleHeadphone, AirPodsPro Lite, AppleGlasses, AppleCar, iTV, iPhone SE2, MacBook 14”, iMac, HomePod 2020. No, it’s not COVID-19 that is the (main) cause of delays - although it will certainly be attributed being so. The core problem is the dispersed focus on all the services mentioned, the CEO not obsessed with products, and the money addiction of the immense Tech Bureaucracy he created reaping fruits from Steve’s ideas. Steve said: “Stay lean and mean, stay foolish, focus on products” Tim did: “Become large and keep counting, focus on cash” Hence its inability to act as a lean, mean and innovative aggressor. It has become merely defensive, sadly, where keeping market share is key and innovation considered merely disruptive. On the individual employee level that translates “Think different” into “Think indifferent”.

The fact that you can list off almost a dozen products that a lot of iPhone users know about and are interested in evaluating or buying says much more about Apple's level of competency and performance.
What is anyone waiting to come out of Facebook or Google, and what of those things would anyone actually pay for?
I don't get your contrast between Jobs and Cook. Jobs tried many more wild things out as desperate reaches than Cook ever has. Jobs introduced iPod Socks and floated out some pretty bad software and internet services, including multile things he felt compelled to appoligize in public for. Cook has rather deftly launched hit after hit, even after the obvious product niches were filled.
Cook is sailing a much larger ship. He can hire smart people to make design decisions. Jobs had a magical vision for knowing what upcoming generations would want and need. But if he were still around, he'd likely still be pushing for fake leather trim on windows and shiny chrome knobs in the UX, stuff that just slows down real progress in utility. Jobs was sort of notorious his whole life for occasionally prioitizing something really inessential over the greater good of a product.
Apple would be far worse off if Cook blustered along as if he thought he were really The Visioary rather than being really excellent at operations. At this scale, Apple should be run by somebody capable of delegating work to a design talent team, rather than somebody who is there to stroke their "I'm a genius ego." Imagine if Apple run by some ultra privelaged rich dick who thinks he's smarter than he really is, like Elon.

At least Elon is trying to really improve the world and not just make rich people richer.

If you saw the level of wealth he lives in, rather than just reading enthusiast plaudits, maybe you'd have a different perspective. 

Imagine having the idle wealth to claim that you're going to distribute desperately needed ventilators for COVID patients, then what you actually do is order some "ventilators" online and realize that what you bought was a sleeping aid that has nothing to do with ventilating patients suffering through COVID acute respiratory distress syndrome, so then you diddle about and try to play it all off as if you actually did some useful thing for society while your fans adore you for your heroism, and then you move on to something else while California continues to ask in vain "what happened to those respirators you were refurbing"?