lord amhran

Hopefully it can be all the things SIRI was supposed to be....

sog35 said:

cnocbui said:

Chowdhry should probably back off and take a look at the current global picture.  Numerous countries and regions teetering on the edge of outright recession, currency wars and central banks desperately trying to fix the unfixable and likely just creating pain with interest in the near future.  China is a great big bad debt implosion just waiting to happen and trigger a global avalanche.  The Smartphone market - at Western, Apple like price levels - has mostly reached global saturation with a swathe of Chinese manufacturers producing very capable devices at less than half the cost of Western priced equivalents.

The downturn in Apple's recent fortunes has little to do with management.

then why is iPhone 6s sales 32% higher than iPhone 5s sales?

If the economy is doing so much worse today than in 2014, why is Apple selling 32% more iPhone units then in 2014?

Not trying to be an azz here Sog but why are you comparing 2014 numbers? Shouldn't they be compared to the quarter from this time last year, not two years ago?

sog35 said:

rogifan_new said:

Cook just needs to get rid of Cue already. Poach someone really good from Google, Amazon or Micfosoft. Or just buy Dropbox. Notice we never get stories like this from the hardware or software engineering teams at Apple. But there have been similar stories about Apple Maps, Apple Music was a mess when it first launched and just earlier this week that Apple's pitch for moving into original programming is completely disorganized. All of these things are under Cue. He needs to go.

Dude, your venom and hate for Cue is tiresome.

Considering your relentless diatribes against Tim Cook's leadership of Apple this a bit of the pot calling the kettle black wouldn't you say?

sog35 said:

Nice. Apple needs to do more to leverage their user base.  Apple is literally leaving tens of billions on the table by not taking advantage of advertising opportunities. Better Apple than Google

Come on sog35, you're a fairly intelligent fellow. You really don't see an issue with some small-time developer busting their ass day-in, day-out trying to get their app made and when they finally get it on the app store to have it so buried & choked off by the larger developers who "paid to play" to get THEIR app on the top of the charts that the developer can't make any money to further develop their app or make new apps? More revenue is not what is needed on the App Store. A complete and total overhaul of the search engine powering the App Store is. As many have pointed out, when you can go to Google and get better iOS App Store search results than by searching in the App Store itself, you have serious problems.

I pray this never gets implemented and whomever thought this was even a remotely good idea gets fired for this stupidity.

dasanman69 said:

Then Periscope should be banned because there's no shortage of nudeness, and sexual acts being broadcast. 

I haven't seen any myself but there's an awful lot of pot smoking that goes on on Periscope.