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coolfactor said:

flaneur said:

People who are habitually negative about post-Jobs Apple have a daddy complex. Losing their authority figures is a nagging anxiety wired in from childhood abandonment traumas. Note the shift to authority worship of Elon Musk on the part of these "Jobs would have" people.

For details on this complex see The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich.

While I'm not saying your wrong, I think the problems with today's Apple go beyond this issue. Yes, Jobs is greatly admired, and Apple has tried to incorporate his values and principles to a great degree. But today's Apple has a certain arrogance about it that is very hard to ignore. They are making design decisions that fly in the face of common sense and practicality. Is it to push the envelope? Sure. But to castrate your main products, ignore others, and remove features that people actually use — all the while ignoring customer feedback, at least from the "small guy", it's really disheartening. This is the new Apple, and I don't like it.  It's not personable like it was under Jobs. It's a cold, corporate and money-seduced "machine". Maybe that will change when they reboot with their new campus.

It's the effects of being number one, it's really impossible for normal non special people (at Apple) not to be affected by the companies success, I mean if you were that rich how much crap would you really give ? As long as iPhone is making Apple all the money it needs there really is no need for change. Many people, especially companies, have been victims of their own success,including Apple, that it took one of the greatest visionaries of our time to bring it back from the brinks of extinction, he did so because he measured success independently to money, Apple has always measured a different kind of successes, one based on a simple but very challenging principle, the one responcible for us all conversing here like this, If you've been here long enough you would have noticed now how quick some are to bring up Apple cash machine to thwart any critism coz its gotten harder to just say "its Apple that means its the best coz it just works" befor you could say that without even having personally used the product and sadly many here fail to see that no amount of money can indefinitely shed Apple from arrogance and complacency, Apple faces zero threat from its current competion, but you'll never know what's around the conner, remember no one saw the iPhone coming, now many of those who didn't are extinct because they thought they were too big to fail. Just my 2c

The real question is who's the idiot who keeps telling advertisers that this actually helps sell products, anyone whose ever bought something this way ? Isn't the only thing it does to annoy any potential customers ? Strange, I wonder how this business really works, what numbers are bieng peddled around, do the people selling the crap only care that you see the crap regardless of whether that results in a sale ? Does no one care about good brand association ?

Interestingly phrased headline, here's MacRumors : "iPhone 7's Lack of 'Compelling' Features Convinced Most Galaxy Note7 Owners to Stay With Samsung", but love is blind though I completely agree

evilution said:

Worth posting 3 times!
The 6 looked like it was wearing a thong.

The whole story sounds like a "release nonsense to find out where the leaks are coming from".

The real problem is that Jony and team found absolutely nothing wrong with the hideous design of the antennae lines on the six thus it was released that way it's troubling when regular people have to point out to seasoned designers that something is wack, what exactly was so difficult with the iP6 having the iP7 antennae design, they are basically the same just that the 7's is more asthetically pleasing. My theory is that what's probably happening is that with ID having more power at Apple the team is now more involved with everything that makes the product including internal hardwear that should hav nothing to do with ID, they are now taking on hardwear engineering and trying to solve hardwear problems, as engineers care about it just working and ID want it to work in the smallest volume, too much time is spent considering technology and manufacturing processes, to me it seems like the designers are thinking more and more like hardwear guys, with a balance of the best compromises and the fundamental look and feel of Apple products are slipping to strictly utilitarian designs IMHO, just look at the magic mouse 2, from a utilitarian view the charging port is at the most optimum location, throw in an "awesome" feature like charge for 15min and get extra usage I case battery dies mid use, an engeneer looks at this and thinks "great days work" a designer looks at this and hurls, than he figures out a solution hey why not make the glass surface pop open and held up by stiff springs, a gap just big enough to fit a lightning connector in on either end, now you can charge while still using and when finished remove cable, pop the lid back down, done!!!

Soli said:

theothergeoff said:

we laugh, but BlackBerry's QNX operating system is running a lot of 'can't f*ck up' semi-autonomous systems, like in Nuclear power plants and 'robotic surgery' devices.

I'd rather have QNX than iOS drive my car.

iOS won't drive your car any more than macOS or watchOS, but OS X might be built into carOS that I wouldn't have an issue with using.

Wouldn't QXN be great buyout for Apple to counter (Samsung buys Harman for $8B in deal that could pave way for 'Apple Car' competition) ?