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Pema said:

charlesn said:

Pema said:

charlesn said:

Pema said:

Beating a dead donkey this is what this is. Another iPhone (yawn): iPhone 16e (aka the Dud) and now the iPhone Fold (another dud). And in another four years: the iPhone Anniversary Edition - 20th Phone. What does it do? Makes phone call, text messages and oh yes the entire back is covered with cameras. Other than that, nada. Other than over-complicating an iOS with myriad functionality that everyone keeps turning off because it is getting in the way of working and eats up gobs of memory. 

And, oh yes, let's not forget Apple Intelligence. Which Microsoft shuttered last week is starting to look a lot like the dot.com boom of the Y2K. 

Talk about eating the same meal that Steve Jobs cooked all those years ago. Must be surely getting stale by now. 

And the new vision: the Vision Pro aka the dead horse. 

Apple needs new blood rather than stirring the same pot ad infinitum. 

And meanwhile, in the real world: Apple's booming sales keep fueling record-setting revenues and profits, it's the world's most valuable company, its stock price sits near its all-time highs and it just won its 18th straight World's Most Admired Company award. But The Cult of Dead Steve just can't abide a level of consistent, record-setting success that exceeds what Apple achieved under Jobs. 

On that basis, the drug cartels are the sure epitome. They are the highest grossing, best managed businesses the world over, despite not having any board members on the election committees and dealing with adversarial forces on every front. I am just taking your measure of success: $$$$. 

I was talking about innovation. You obviously buried your head in the pot full of cash and forgot about that. 
 

Can't waste my time. You continue barking at the moon on message boards. I'll continue making money on Apple innovation. 14 years with Cook as CEO and the growth has never stopped. It is a far better and exponentially more successful company now than when Jobs died--but by all means, you keep worshipping at your altar of Dead Steve. 

Yup. Proved my point. You are tone deaf. I am not worshipping Steve Jobs. I am just pointing out the bleeding obvious that you can only milk a product so far before you bleed it dry. MS under Nutella moved away from Windows to the Cloud. Google, ok, bad example because they are a one trick pony: Search. But Apple has traditionally been a huge innovator during the early Jobs era, then it faltered and almost died, then Jobs came back and it was one great product after another. Where is that innovation gone? You can keep on hiring best and brightest engineers in the world but engineers do not create, they build. 
You need someone with a great vision to follow on from Jobs and I just don't see it. 
Apple Car. Dead. Vision Pro. On life support. And now more iPhone configurations to lengthen its life well beyond its due by date. 
Yes Apple is making money. But that's not enough. 

As of yet, nobody has figured out how to replace a smartphone, not just Apple. The smartphone has been I’ve if the most important developments in the history of communications, computing, music playback, gaming, etc., to minimize that by saying that Apple hasn’t innovated since the beginning, is just trash talk on your part. The modern smartphone is almost entirely an Apple innovation, as the previous generation were terrible. I still have my Palm 700p in a drawer, considered to be one if the best at the time.

the problem for people who have never invented anything, is that they don’t know just how difficult it is, even for something simple. I don’t think you know what innovation is. Most companies have just one, or two major innovations the entire life of the company. Apple has many. You obviously don’t consider the iPad, or Watch, to be important, but you’re wrong. And while it’s in early days and not intended for a general audience, something many commentators forget, the Vision Pro has gained a lot of traction in corporate and government. I know a number of people there who are using it, and the is has undergone significant improvements since it came out.

yeah, it’s too bad about the car. I’d love to know what went on there. But overall, Tim has done an excellent job. The more evolved things become, the more difficult to have a major advance. Phones are pretty evolved, thanks to Apple. The next big thing, like it or not, will be hardware more oriented towards efficient and powerful A.I. on device. Something no one else seems to be interested in elsewhere. That could be a breakthrough.

With all the talk about Apple’s problems with the modem, firstly, I’m surprised they came out with it this year, so early in the year too, and secondly, I’m not surprised that the performance is about the same as Qualcomm’s while being more efficient.

we’ve been reading that Apple’s first modem wouldn’t be out until 2026 and possibly not even until 2027, so this is a nice surprise. Apple can keep secrets after all, it seems. If the performance can keep up with Qualcomm’s in this first version, that shows they’ve overcome the problems they’ve been having. While I’m sure they licensed patents from Qualcomm’s and others, they do have plenty of their own that they bought from Intel and in previous patent auctions. But all patents expire, so this is less of an issue going forwards as Apple obtains more of their own patents for later versions of cellular standards. At some point in the near future, we’ll be finding Qualcomm’s and others licensing FRAND patents from Apple.

im hoping we’ll see their modems in the new line later this year.

y2an said:

Great, but how was this measured?

Go to Geekerwan and find out.

hmlongco said:

If Apple want's bloggers to use their devices more for video... then they need to focus more on audio. They need to integrate more with wireless microphones and perhaps even create their own wireless microphone system. Having a single USB-C port is a huge limiting factor. Can't run a mic to the phone when one has to use the sole port to offload video to external storage.

Gave you ever heard of a splitter cable? I use them. I can plug a battery, ssd and a stereo mic into my phone. No problem.

It actually makes sense to have it on the most expensive side phone first. The first years of manufacture of a more sophisticated part is the most expensive. It also allows re]amp up of manufacturing lines. The second year, machinery is depreciated and the cost to manufacture come down as does the ability to ramp up production. Does it also give Apple a chance to increase Max sales? Of course. That helps to pay the extra costs.