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  • After abandoning iAd revenue, Apple Inc can reintroduce an ad-free internet

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    cali said:
    I still can't see why this is a good thing sometimes.

    Why not just lower the Apple royalty rate from %30 to %20 instead of giving away all the year's work for free?
    This would have encouraged more advertisers and made Apple extra cash at the expense of Giggle's bread and butter.

    Heck take it down to %10 just to take down Giggle for a laugh.
    Perhaps because Apple doesn't make decisions based on whether they will screw Google or not? My guess is Apple isn't as obsessed about screwing Google as some people on this board are.
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  • Donald Trump promises to make Apple manufacture in US instead of China

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    Donald Trump is a Buffon and a clown and anybody who votes for him is nuts.
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  • Apple making sparse use of Swift in its own apps, engineer claims

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    sog35 said:

    johnvirgil said:
    Even though sog35 comments are inflammatory I do think there is some truth to it. Tim's skill is logistics, and he is amazing at logistics, but usually what makes you good at logistics makes you not that good as a CEO. To be great logistically you have to have a healthy fear of risk. And your entire job is to mitigate that risk. But as CEO especially of a culture like apple it requires crossing the rubicon, burning the bridges kinda risk. And you do see that he has been tepid about all sorts of things. Like why he hasn't killed off certain products. Like why do they sell 6 different versions of the ipad (I'm not talking about customization like hard drive space but different versions). It's super confusing to the customer he could just simplify it small, medium, large. There are other examples were he should just risk it but seems to fear it to much.
    Another example of not taking risks by Cook was continuing to sell 16GB iPhones. That is 100% based on being afraid of lower margins.  Those kind of moves make Apple look like a short term thinking company instead of being visionary. Sure you make more profit selling 16GB phones but customer satisfaction suffers and services revenue suffers also (less space to buy stuff)
    And yet you were one constantly defending that decision and practically calling anyone who criticized it a cheap bastard who should go Android. You screamed about how much money Apple would lose and how margins would suffer blah blah blah. Now that your portfolio has taken a hit all of a sudden none of that matters. 
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  • Apple making sparse use of Swift in its own apps, engineer claims

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    msantti said:
    Well, was a great operations guy. Jobs was quoted as saying Cook was not.

    The watch does sort of seem like a Cook thing though.

    it does NOT seem like it would have been a Jobs thing.

    if Jobs were alive and well, I think there would be something that we do not have now.

    i don't think Cook has that forward vision, at least not as products do.
    Like what? Everything Jobs introduce had existed before. Sure you can say Apple's implemtation was better. But you could also say Jobs was just better at marketing so it seemed like everything he announced was mind blowing even if it wasn't.
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  • After abandoning iAd revenue, Apple Inc can reintroduce an ad-free internet

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    sog35 said:
    rogifan_old said:
    Right because what the world needs now is another social media platform. #facepalm
    Not another social media platform. 
    A better one. One that Apple can run.

    But again Tim Cook refuses to use iOS muscle to enter new services. Cook is not brave enough to take risks. He brought out AppleMusic 2 years too late. iRadio 2 years too late. And he will probably panic and buy a social media company in a couple of years in sheer panic.

    By all rights Apple should already be in social, search, advertising, gaming, live TV and video sharing RIGHT NOW. 
    So Tim Cook was supposed to do all of this in 4 years? Nonsense. You haven't provided any legitimate reason why Apple should be in advertising or social media. If it's all about creating new revenue stream then heck, why not Apple appliances? Apple could probably design a better refrigerator or washing machine than they could a social media platform. Personally I'd rather not have Apple turn into some GE or Samsung like conglomerate doing all kinds of things but not many of them very well. 
    jackansi