rogifan_old

jdnc123 said:

rogifan_old said:

Do you really think Apple employees give a shit whether their company is the most valuable company on a given day? I sure heck hope not. That's what AOL employees were obsessed with in the late 90s. Every employee had a stock ticker on their desktop and were constantly checking the share price. Where is AOL now? Buried inside of Verizon.

Btw, 90% of Google's revenue still comes from advertising, 80% from Google's own sites. And their "other bets" stuff takes in hardly any revenue but is full of lossss. And yet Apple's the "one trick pony" too dependent on iPhone. Fuck that.

UMMM, if they get stock comp, they care like hell.

jdnc123 said:

sog35 said:

It sickens me that Apple refuses to fight back.

They should have stuck it to Google long time ago. Yet Cook is happy with giving Google a ton of wealth by making Google the default search on iOS.

At the same time Google is trying to kill of Apple's life blood (iPhone sales) by giving Android away for free.  And now Google is serious about building top end hardware.

Steve Jobs said he would use all of Apple's cash to go thermo-nuclear on Android.
Yet because Cook continues to allow Google search as the default on iOS devices he has allowed Google to build a castle of gold.
Cooks is helping the very enemy Jobs swore to destroy.

The 'Google is bigger than Apple' story is all over the headlines I see right now.  Should be good for employee morale at Apple.  Many likely had a chance to choose between the two companies and the unlucky ones chose to join the company that was $200-300 billion bigger just a short few years ago.  What a historic and epic mistake on their part from a challenge and compensation perspective.  Yippy, talented engineers get to work on making the iPhone marginally better which nobody notices or cares about anymore.

Seriously, if Tim Cook does a big hoopla event for another incremental design change to the iPhone, he should be replaced.

jdnc123 said:

Well, it was fun while it lasted, but starting tomorrow, Apple will no longer be the most valuable company in the world after Google beat earnings and the stock is up $50+ after-hours, if it holds.  No lamenting the global economy, or currency or any other lame excuses, they just keep growing earnings.  Vision and execution is trumping a huge void of vision and a whole heck of a lot of stubbing their own toes at Apple.  Best Tim Cook could do was blame the macro environment.  Good companies just execute.

Edit:  Google +$70 dollar now, it'll be a tens of billions gap starting tomorrow, but wont even be close at to who is the biggest and baddest company in the world soon with Cook leading Apple.

torusoft said:

I for one am sick of paying premium prices for beta quality software.

dysamoria said:

What a brazen campaign. There's some real chutzpah there. The over-the-top noise reduction in the camera firmware on iPhone 6s makes for pretty lousy photos. No app changes this with any setting. If Apple doesn't change it, it stays that way.

Seriously, take some photos of cats in moderate light. The noise reduction destroys hair on pets and humans unless you have perfect light and luck. It looks like a watercolor filter was applied. The flash exposure behavior sucks, too, so you get the noise-reduction mess AND blasted-out solid white highlights in one image. There's zero effort at color balance, either. On top of all that, the displays on these phones have their own color inconsistencies (mine is warm on the left and cool on the right). Every phone at the Apple Store was the same when I considered trying to exchange it.

This is a seriously disingenuous marketing campaign.

I'm utterly unimpressed with this phone. It' s not just me: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6576391?tstart=0