sflagel

blastdoor said:

nubus said:

blastdoor said:

The quote that resonated with me from the WSJ article is that Apple can do pretty much anything they set their minds to. I think that really is the bottom line. Apple has competent management, smart employees, and practically limitless financial resources. When you have those things, you can do just about anything (within the laws of physics)

Having an idea and an abundance of cash didn't work at Xerox PARC. It doesn't help much at IBM or Intel. The main new feature of iPhone 15 Pro was an extra button. USB-C was a requirement made by politicians. The main new feature of the next iOS will be... OpenAI powered by Microsoft.

Jobs made Apple the most valuable company in 2011. Cook has moved Apple down to #3. It has been a decade of iterative upgrades from Apple with AirPods and M-series being the stars. 

Note that I listed three factors: (1) competent management, (2) smart employees, and (3) limitless financial resources. 

Xerox, IBM, and Intel all eventually had problems with #1. 

Apple lost a step after Steve Jobs left, but nobody else has Steve Jobs, either. Cook is better than most CEOs out there. Comparing him to Jobs is pointless -- nobody is Steve Jobs. 

I think one can argue that it’s time for new blood at the very top. Cook was a fantastic CEO: the Apple Watch was a wonderful addition to the line up and Services are doing great. Not to mention global expansion during difficult times. But Apple needs a little revolution, a break from the current cycle. 

Kuminga said:

sflagel said:

I do not have a VisionPro, but maybe someone who does, can comment: these "immersive experiences" are just gimmicks, no? Impressive gimmicks, but no more.

Black Berry users in 2008 said IPhone was a gimmick…

some people and companies are visionaries, some are not…. No offense 

I am not dissing the VisionPro, I am dissing the "immersive experiences" and that they seem to deserve an article on AI. A better analogy than the Blackberry are the apps on early iPhones that faked drinking beer out of a glass: they were gimmicks. No one bought an iPhone to use the iBeer app, nor did anyone "vision" the future of the iPhone based on the iBeer apps.

I do not have a VisionPro, but maybe someone who does, can comment: these "immersive experiences" are just gimmicks, no? Impressive gimmicks, but no more.

I still struggle with my iPadPro. I find that it is not capable enough to be taken on even short work trips, and not small enough for mundane tasks like scrolling Insta, reading recipes etc. I use it almost exclusively for note taking and annotations in PDFs using the Apple Pencil. I feel there is much more that can be done by integrating the Pencil more intuitively, for example drawing Keynote presentations. To me, the Pencil is the main differentiator but it's not taken to its full advantage.

What would be "magic" is if I could drag a doc in a macOS file onto an iPad screen and it would "magically" appear in the PadOS app to allow me to do annotations, insert pictures taken with the camera, etc, and then allow me to drag back onto the Mac.

So Spotify is working every angle to maximise returns to their investors, provide more competition, and push updates to their customers as quickly as possible; and most people in this forum side with the $3 Tn company that works every angle so that none of this happens?