Pema

What a complete and total miscue. You would think from Apple's focus on camera, camera, camera that we buy iPhones to become professional photographers. If we were professional photographers we would spend thousands on pro cameras like Leica and not buy a phone. 
Instead of Apple reminding itself that the reason people buy phones is to make phone calls and send text messages. The phone call quality is good in most cases. The texting is horrible, horrible, horrible. 
It is nigh impossible to write a text message without making some stupid, embarrassing mistake and when you attempt to go back and fix it you get stepped over by that dumb auto-correct. So say you are trying to type luv you. You get lettuce. How dumb is that? 

But hey, camera, camera, camera we are all wanting to become professional photographers and movie directors. 

Without the great visionary Steve Jobs Apple has lost its way and is eating the fruits of the tree that he created. 

Ironically I was watching a demo that Steve did years ago, prophetic words: 'we don't create the technology and then try to find the market, but the other way around, we find out what people want and then create the best tech we can'. 

Words to live by. Recently I read an article on this forum that the site where Steve Jobs demoed the first Mac has been turned into rubble. May I add that his great vision and mission statement for Apple has also been razed in the interest of $$$. 

Great example, the Vision Pro. Nobody in their right mind wanted or asked for that. So Apple spent billions creating a device that no one wants or asked for and now they are trying to shoe horn it into the market. Precisely the opposite of what Steve said all those years ago. 

Doesn't work. The scammers have an endless array of phone numbers. You block one, they come back with another. Like marking an email with Spam and Phishing in Gmail. The email spammers come back with a new email by just altering a single alphanumeric character. 

This is what I call junk tech. When I was around ten, me and a couple of mates found a discarded hot water heater. We figured we could fill up the heater with diesel, set it on a bonfire underneath and aim into space. You can imagine how well that went. But then we were kids. 

Apple is running out of ideas post the genius visionary Steve Jobs. So let's tailor clothes with sensors; let's fill up the home with tech: flush the toilet, set the coffee to start, control the fridge, the lights, the telly, the stereo, the doorbell and on an on. This is not visionary thinking, this is lateral thinking. Any bonehead can see that. 

The last thing that I would want is some tech company invading my home with their tech. Home is home not a site to infest with gadgetry. 

What's next? That's just the thing. There are only so many talented people like Steve Jobs. When they go their vision only extends so far and then their legacy lives on until it dies with them. The Mac, iPhone, iPad. That's the magic trio. All else is just natural progression: earbuds, watches etc. etc. 

But where is the tech to make you sit up and go wow this really changes the landscape. If you look back over the last decades and are asked to point to life altering experiences you point to Google Search - which Apple is utilising; EVs - thanks to Elon Musk, the iPhone, AI (jury is still out on that one), that about it. 

Engineering wizardry is not technological groundbreaking otherwise every company with a couple of hundred talented engineers would be breaking new ground every year or so. 

Has it happened yet? No, I didn't think so. 

sidrictheviking said:

Pema said:

That's brilliant. Now we need to round up roster of users from Antartica and Upper Mongolia who actually use the Apple equivalent of Office. In my entire time in IT and as a Uni Phd student I have yet to see anyone using other than Word, Excel, Powerpoint. 

Greetings from Mongolian Antarctica!
As a regular (and long-time) user of both Pages and Keynote I’m surprised to read your post. I’ve used Word and PowerPoint over the decades but moved to Pages and Keynote exclusively many years ago. Bring free certainly helped. However, the main reason is ease of use. I work almost exclusively from an iPad and find Keynote, in particular, to be intuitive and very user friendly. When I need to work with Office documents I simply import them into the Apple equivalent and work with them there. When necessary, I export them back to their Office versions and it’s a painless exercise. 

Sadly, as I live in the EU (Ireland), I won’t have access to these new feature until April. I am very much looking forward to using Image Playground for Keynote, as I regularly spend far too long finding appropriate images for my presentations. From what I’ve seen so far, I should be able to create suitable ones in seconds for each slide. I don’t need photorealistic, just clear and relevant. 

😎🇮🇪☘️ 

The Irishman who came in from the Cold. 

Kidding aside as an academic I rely on Word exclusively namely for its vast library of add-ons and ties to various components. Couldn't do without them. So far as Excel is concerned I use the functionality of VBA - underpinning of Excel - at least two to three times a week. 

Powerpoint I am less concerned about. 

I fully realise that Pages, Numbers and Keynote are free. But they just lack the real world functionality. 

That said, I would never use any other hardware than a Mac. 

That's brilliant. Now we need to round up roster of users from Antartica and Upper Mongolia who actually use the Apple equivalent of Office. In my entire time in IT and as a Uni Phd student I have yet to see anyone using other than Word, Excel, Powerpoint.