DanielEran

danvm said:

It would be impossible to cobble a similar platform out of the terrible speakers built into existing Echo and Dot appliances, and neither Amazon, Google, Samsung, Spotify or other speaker makers really have to clout to produce such a sophisticated, premium speaker and sell it to a critical mass of users globally.

Based in many reviews, the HomePod sound quality is very similar to the Google Home Max, and I wouldn't consider neither of them premium speakers.  And to say that Samsung is not capable of doing sophisticated premium speaker is non sense.  They own Harman Audio, which includes companies like Harman-Kardon, AKG, Infinity and Revel, among others.  Those companies have years of experience in the audio market.  We'll have to see the results of the final product, but I wouldn't count them out.  

The kicker on that sentence is "and sell it to a critical mass of users globally."

Samsung developed a Gear watch platform, Tizen, Galaxy Player, all manner of tablets, and no doubt it can make a speaker. But to create an audio platform that matters, it would need to learn how to sell those products to people who would pay any money for them.

Google hardware is a bullshit exercise in Verge fapping and nobody buys any of it in commercially relevant volumes. It doesn't matter that some bloggers can't tell the difference between a basic speaker and HomePod. If those reviews mattered Google would be a significant hardware seller rather than a source of billowing hot bullshit.

rogifan_new said:

I personally love the new style I've seen as of late.  It's factual and aggressive, and relatively brief.  It's about time Google is called out on their shit.  

Why? How are they threatening Apple in any way. If this phone is as bad as DED says why even waste any time on it?

You seem to think that I write to bring balance to the Universe according to my whims. If I were so powerful, I'd be writing about different subjects. 

I write to be correct.

I know the industry, and I have a decade of work out there anyone can evaluate for accuracy. You've been trolling for a while now, making regular personal attacks at my expense. What have you ever said that's ever been even sort of accurate, if not just total hogwash-spin in the service of Google, making excuses for an incredibly inept, failure-upon-failure group that has plundered American businesses and wasted billions on frivolous horseshit? I have a pretty good memory for tech history, and I can't remember you ever saying anything that wasn't pure, desperate garbage. Why do you keep going? I'm paid here, you're not. I get to enjoy being right, you can't. What's your motivation? 

cropr said:

I agree that Google Pixel phones are not really a success, but calling Android a failure is plain BS. It is the most successful mobile OS on the planet with a market share of 75% and it is generating massively ad income for Google. Would love to have such a failure in my product portfolio.

Except that Android didn't change anything for Google. It was doing the same thing on Windows PCs, on phones running Linux, Symbian, Windows Mobile and iPhones. All Android does is cost Google more money to manage, without delivering any additional advantage. In fact, the largest market for Android phones gives Google nothing, because its services are blocked in the PRC. And by promoting Android, Google has been edged out of many key iOS services, including Maps. It's now installed only by user choice, which dropped Google's iOS presence from 100% to less than a third.

rogifan_new said:

So this is why Amazon stock is up 6% this morning and Apple is down 2%? At the rate things are going Amazon is going to be the first company to 1T valuation. Also since when does Wall Street care about Amazon’s ad business? You know it is possible to write a positive story about Apple’s ‘other’ segment without dinging it’s competitors.

Why don't you find some AI model and run your ideas through it to distill your great advice so you can apply it to the comments you post in the forum here. 

darkvader said:

And yet they completely f'ed up macOS Server, and there's not a single Mac in the current product lineup that's really suitable for server use.

Apple is schizophrenic. 

Mac OS X Server has been dead forever and nobody in the enterprise uses it. It was a $20 package of utilities with a dummy interface that was only useful to people who had no business running a server connected to the internet. 

Selling Macs and iOS devices to the enterprise is not at all connected to Apple's failed 1998-era concept of having a workgroup server running like a Mac.

It's like saying "why is Apple selling AirPods and HomePods after it pulled out of the printer and camera business!?!"