Mike Wuerthele

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  • If you were underwhelmed by WWDC 2025, you're not alone

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    No offense, but are you a developer?  It's a developer conference where developers are introduced to new capabilities introduced in the new OSes.

    You can't judge a conference by its keynote.

    It's possible that the conference is ultimately "underwhelming," but its the conference attendees who will decide that.

    And it's day 2 of a 5-day conference!
    Like it or not, WWDC is public-facing, with investors, conventional media, and more, making their own takes about it. It's a very public demonstration to the user base as a whole, what's to come. If it was the developer-only club, they wouldn't be shilling F1 and Apple TV+ at the start of the keynote.

    You are welcome to disagree, but gatekeeping that "Only developers get to have opinions" isn't right.

    Amber has been at gig this longer than most developers have been on the platform. 12 years in April. She's qualified to judge.
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  • Saying Apple is in trouble before WWDC is a time-honored and always wrong tradition

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    Apple is pretty trolling. And now, the stock is tanking while GOOG, AMZN, MSFT, NVDA. META, and even TSLA go up. 

    WWDC 2025 is a medicore or "nothing burger" event. 

    No big surprise.. Just all boring features so far what we already knew from rumors some days ago. 

    Apple should kill themselves or short themselves. 
    This is probably the least-informed thing I will read about Apple this week.
    Wow... Is this page sponsored or paid by Apple? 
    I always wonder why there are only optimistic users here. 

    You also don´t generate any insights in this case. Apple clearly lied and Apple could not present AI-related strategies, because Apple would face lawsuits and Apple has nothing to show because their AI strategy is way behind. 

    What else do you see that Apple can turn around? Any insights? 

    Your optimism is so misplaced.

    At the end, it is not an AI issue, but a trust issue. Most users believed so far Apple would roll out features when they are ready. But this belief is not true anymore. We saw what happened in 2024. Siri is SIRIously shit and can´t be rolled out with iOS26. 

    Apple should SIRIously rebrand the name Siri. It is more than embarassing and laughable. 
    That´s why I always wonder how most users from Appleinsider can protect Apple and Tim Cook. 

    Investors do not like WWDC 2025. It was a huge disappointment. 
    I am pretty sure that most users are also underwhelmed by Liquid Glass what reminds them of Windows Vista. 

    Apple´s current position is: "How did you go bankrupt? Gradually and suddenly". I think it hits hard where Apple is currently standing.

    But yeah.. Keep going with some s*it shows. 

    We are not sponsored or paid by Apple. This is your final warning. Suggest it again, and you're out of here. This is addressed in the forum rules.

    You're welcome to your opinion. You are not welcome to denigrate ours as paid here.

    As to the rest of your point, I've heard and read so many times in the almost 30 years I've been doing this that Apple is doomed because of this or that. Apple II is better than Mac, PowerPC is dumb, 68K forever, the PowerBook 1400 is garbage and will never sell, the iMac lacks Pro, the iPod is a toy, the Intel Macs are the doom of Apple, the iPhone won't succeed, the App Store is dumb, the iPad is a glorified iPhone, the Apple Watch is too expensive, Apple Silicon will alienate everybody.

    Yet, here they are.
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  • Saying Apple is in trouble before WWDC is a time-honored and always wrong tradition

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    MassiveAttack said:
    Apple is pretty trolling. And now, the stock is tanking while GOOG, AMZN, MSFT, NVDA. META, and even TSLA go up. 

    WWDC 2025 is a medicore or "nothing burger" event. 

    No big surprise.. Just all boring features so far what we already knew from rumors some days ago. 

    Apple should kill themselves or short themselves. 
    This is probably the least-informed thing I will read about Apple this week.
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  • Apple's new study highlights App Store's role in global commerce

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    neoncat said:
    Putting this in the same PR spin pile as Qualcomm's modem "study."

    The more Apple twists and turns and tries to control the narrative about their stupid little App Stores, the less inclined I am to care. The war is already lost, they just won't admit it. The sooner they pivot to thinking about how to take advantage of what comes after the feudal rent seeking, the sooner we all benefit. Because it's just a matter of when it will be torn down, not if.

    Or, they can keep insisting on how piously right they are, and end up giving the entire farm away like the did with both the eBook trial and the earlier Look-and-Feel lawsuits. Learn from your crushing mistakes, Apple. 
    We are too.
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  • Epic vs. Apple: What Apple is being forced to do to the App Store

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    bulk001 said:
    ssfe11 said:
    It’s one clueless Judge who is making this decision. Once an intelligent tech savvy court hears the details of this case they will shake their heads in amazement that Judge Rogers ruled this way. 
    I do not believe that the US has one of these.

    So you disagree with her other rulings favoring Apple in the larger case too then? Thought not.
    You thought wrong.

    There was a lot she got wrong in the first case. I have made it extremely clear throughout the years that our government isn't capable of making sensible rulings about tech because they just can't be bothered, and that applies to my US judiciary as well for the most part.

    Wrong math to get to the right answer is still the wrong math in the first place.
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