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25 years ago, Apple's board of directors pushed out CEO John Sculley
Maybe it is your age, or maybe it's just a lack of awareness. For an "engineer" you seem strangely unaware of the enormous, industry leading tech leadership Apple has displayed in so many areas, e.g., blown away the competition in that little area called processors??? And, when you are lamenting the "loss" of the 3.5 mm jack in lieu of two way digital interface called lightning, or don't see the huge technological advances required to have achieved Face ID (and yes Apple engineered the first truly successful fingerprint ID ) you should do some re-examination. After that, take a fresh look at things like Apple Watch, where Apple's technology has been so successful that they've left everyone else behind in the new category of wearables, along with the incredible technology packed into the amazing AirPods.JohnnyCanadian said:StrangeDays said:You started off so good... Then you ended with an absurd bit of hand-wringing DOOM narrative. Sorry, but no - Cook will be remembered as one of the most successful CEOs in tech, with incredible, ass-kicking metrics of success. Things like revenue, profit, size...the kind of things owners of a company are actually into. In addition to continuing to be one of the most beloved brands with highest consumer satisfaction ratings.
Your claim that Apple isn't innovated is also poppycock. Their engineering chops continue to push the envelope in multiple product sectors and their product design is routinely aped and imitated by the rest of the industry.
But you want new Macs and you want them now, we get it.I appreciate your point of view and I admit I'm an "engineering first" sort of person; pragmatism and functional design rule the roost for me. I still have my first iPad 1 (64GB model!) as a nostalgia piece and although the UI has aged, it's surprising just how smoothly it works: the UX is still incredibly intuitive. It really doesn't feel like an old device, despite being stuck with iOS 5.I still see the original iPhone as being one of the most important consumer electronic devices ever created and although many criticized the iPad when it was released ("it's just a big iPod touch") it resonated with me immediately. As I am back in Canada the first sanctioned iPhone available to me was the 3G and I was smitten. I'd never experienced such a beautifully thought out product (even if backups could take 1/2 hour in those early days). I had some experience developing on early releases of PalmOS and PocketPC systems as well as early universal mobile efforts (specifically WAP) and the iPhone wasn't just a generation ahead, it was jaw-dropping. I still watch the original iPhone keynote once in a while as it was ... perfect. I had every version of the iPhone up to and including the 7+ but then I played with a Pixel XL (revision 1) and I sincerely hope it lasts a while because it's almost the perfect no-compromise phone.I don't get the warm and fuzzy feeling from Apple products any longer: they've become ... I'd like to say "iterative" or "evolutionary" but in some cases they've gone backwards. iPhone performance, especially in the latest models simply cannot be beat, but I still don't agree with removing the 3.5mm headphone jack or the fingerprint sensor on the X. Siri has stagnated for a significant length of time; there's simply no comparison to Google Assistant. The iMac Pro offers pretty decent performance but I wouldn't dare try to upgrade even something as simple as RAM, and that disqualifies it as a true workstation. I'm an independent developer and I'm simply not spending $6k every two years for a new machine just because I'm looking for a capacity or performance boost. A perfect example of "new Apple" problems is the butterfly keyboard: I don't want a portable that has keyboard issues when exposed to even the smallest quantity of particulate. I've got a ten year old Dell M6400 "Precision Workstation" and it still works flawlessly (with a very simple SSD swap) despite some fairly rough roadwork and a tumble off of a truck tailgate, and my 1950X-based primary workstation should give me a solid ten years with regular updates and maintenance.I get it, Apple products remain very popular and are constantly being aped, as you say, but that doesn't mean they're the best in class any longer.Anyway, rant over. I respect your choice of ecosystem but MacOS / iOS just don't have the productivity plus-delta that they used to, at least for my needs. I remain interested in Apple's progress and hope to see a return to a Snow-Leopard-like environment where everything worked, and worked incredibly well. Maybe I'm just getting old. :-)
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Apple's recent software problems are bad, but shouldn't lead to knee-jerk personnel decisi...
One of the more bizarre articles on AI. When a few software bugs are called a "historical" parallel to a loss of lives disaster, you know you've jumped the shark. I'd suggest a more appropriate phrasing would be "hysterical" parallel. This often happens in the tech pundit world because even well intentioned writers are so absorbed in their work that they lose perspective. The reality is that yes there are bugs, but there always have been and always will be. The more important reality is that for 99% of the people who use iOS and the other operating systems, the software system works just fine and they never notice or care about the bug. Consumers have used phones for well over a decade now and they know they aren't perfect, but they also know that the vast majority of times, for the things they use their devices for, they work perfect, i.e., making a phone call, sending/receiving messages, taking a photo, playing music, surfing the web, etc., etc.
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Apple's Atlantic City store to close, displacing 52 workers
"As one of the world's biggest corporations with billions in profits every quarter, Apple has rarely felt a need to shutter outlets. " That's not how business decisions are made. It's irrelevant how much their overall profits are, company's don't keep unprofitable stores, products, services, etc., around just because they have other profits. The reason Apple hasn't shuttered other stores is because those stores are profitable, unlike the AC store that is in a dying mall with few stores left. -
Google takes top spot in global smart speaker market, HomePod nowhere to be found
More fake news. Since Apple hasn't published any figures on sales of Homepods, the 600K or other figures are just made up figures by people to get articles out to get clicks, etc. No one knows if if is 300K or 3 million, etc. Just like the "analysts" saying the iPhone X was a flop and had poor sales.
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Latest Apple Maps update includes indoor mapping for Sydney airport, more
It's had that for over two years. (So has Google Maps). This is the problem-there's so much fake news and misinformation floating about the internet. Try Apple Maps, you'll like it. I've used all three, and travel around the country much more than most people. There's a reason AM is used BIILLIONS of times a week. People wouldn't use a mapping app if it wasn't accurate and met their needs-there are many alternatives to Apple Maps if it didn't meet their needs,, all free and can be downloaded in less than a minute.sdw2001 said:Cool. Now maybe the next thing would be to give it the real-time route-finding capabilities that Waze has had for 8 years.
