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Editorial: Will Apple's 1990's "Golden Age" collapse repeat itself?
Apple’s 1990s mistakes (product supply problems, Mac clones, OS stagnation, the Microsoft marketshare expansion juggernaut) are not happening today.
** In the 2000s three things took place which have helped Apple and Apple has taken advantage of it.
1. Gadget expertise;
The iPod showed that Apple’s closed ecosystem did a great job with gadgets. The software and OS were stable and easy to use.
Support was excellent.
* Smartphones are gadgets. The iPhone success is an extension of Apple’s expertise with making and supporting gadgets.
* Users who prefer ease of use and convenience for mobile devices are the target customer for what Apple offers.
2. Internet malware;
Because Apple is a niche player, most malware goes to the majority OSs, desktop = Windows, mobile = Android.
Because Apple has relatively closed systems and has better privacy protections, the user can more easily protect themselves from malware.
* Again Apple products are attractive for users who prefer ease of use and convenience.
3. Apple is a well run company.
Cook has done a masterful job with suppliers and production getting new products to users.
Cook keeps consistency and support for the main Apple products.
- As the article mentioned; Microsoft in 2000 was in a completely dominant position for all of personal tech. But MS made a string of terrible mistakes and now their phone/wearable product line is almost dead.
- Google is the dominant OS player due to mobile devices having a large percent of all personal computing. But with Android’s poor record of OS updates, poor support from many companies, inferior high end Pixel phone offerings, lack of privacy protections, poor record in dealing with malware, Google cannot threaten the iPhone market.
** Anti-Apple journalism; every year many tech journalists write articles saying that Apple is doomed.
Why is this nonsense repeatedly written?
Because the articles have a huge audience that get clicks. And advertising is a key funding stream for news reporting.
- Why the huge anti-Apple audience?
Most phones have Android. (Some of this is because of poor countries where cost is essential.)
- Lots of the Apple hate is silly school boy stuff where the other “team” is the enemy.
- Other Apple haters on the web have other factors; 1. They prefer open software that can be modified and don’t care much for walled gardens and ease of use. So, they want Apple to die. 2. Many Apple haters have contempt for customers who want ease of use. These haters only want what they like to be offered and so they want Apple to die.
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Watch: iPhone X vs. Galaxy S9 Plus battery life compared
Yes, in terms of the conclusion of the standby battery usage test.Yati said:Horrible...just horrible article.
It has been known for many years that iPhones have better battery life in standby compared with almost all Android phones.
For the article to ignore the results which support that is blatant anti-Apple bias. -
Watch: iPhone X vs. Galaxy S9 Plus battery life compared
First; in terms of total usable screen area, the iPhone 8+ is about = to the iPhone X.franklinjackcon said:
The X has a bigger screen than the 8+ doesn't it? Why would you compare the smaller Samsung to the bigger iPhone and vice versa? It's flagship vs flagshipchasm said:The conclusions here are mildly interesting, but the vastly larger size of the battery in the Samsung (nearly a third more capacity) is not counterweighted against the iPhone X, making most of these tests inherently unfair.
It would have made much more sense to compare the iPhone X to the Galaxy S9, and the iPhone 8+ to the Galaxy S9+, with a simple side note saying something along the lines of “comparing the iPhone X to the Galaxy S9+ directly would give the S9+ an advantage due to its much larger battery, which is not really canceled out by it’s larger display.”
I don’t think we needed a set of exhaustive tests to tell us that a much larger phone with a much larger battery is likely to do better than a smaller phone with a smaller battery. Duh.
Second; Flagship isn’t the most important label. High end is.
The iPhone X, 8 & 8+ are all high end phones.
They all cost more than $500.https://www.phonearena.com/news/What-makes-a-high-end-phone-different-from-a-low-end-one_id77646
They certainly aren’t midrange phones.
* It is definitely appropriate to compare the 8+ with the S9.
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Apple should do more to combat smartphone addiction, insists iPod-Father Tony Fadell
Just more Apple bashing.
The user has control to monitor their usage.
1. Go to Settings, Battery and look down at Battery Usage and one can see how long the device has been on compared with when it was on Standby.
2. IOS has built in alarms / timers to notify the user when they are using the device after a certain hour or time.
3. 3rd party apps like “Moment - Screen Time Tracker” can monitor iPhone/iPad usage.
* After trying all those tech options, if the phone/tablet user is still frustrated/concerned with their tech habits, they can set up a support group or go to individual therapy.
* Any activity can be done too much. The individual is ultimately responsible to work on changing themselves.
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Apple picks up TV adaptation of Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' sci-fi novels
The Expanse sci-if show also has characteristics of Lord of the Rings / Game of Thrones and it is successful enough to get a 3rd season.randominternetperson said:The Foundation series has some of the same characteristics as Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, but I expect it will be much less marketable. Without sword and sorcery or sex or dramatic combat, there will be fewer hooks to draw people in. But yes, hard core scifi nerds (which represents few few million people, perhaps) will give it a chance--if they can find it (since it won't just show up on Netflix or network television where people stumble onto things).
A successful Foundation series is possible.
