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  • Apple pauses iOS 18, macOS 15 work to stomp bugs now

    kelliekellie
    Where the marketing people go wrong is in the belief that only new features sell product.  Which isn’t completely wrong.  But you can make your existing customers much happier by stabilizing what’s already been developed, enhancing performance and improving the ease of use of existing capabilities.  Happy customers tell their friends who might then be convinced to switch to Apple products.  The latest iOS 17 and iPhone 15 overheating issue is a good example of something that should have been discovered in beta testing.  Having a significant issue like that right on the release a new hardware product is embarrassing if not inexcusable.  I’d also suggest Apple make public the list of bugs that have been identified and let customers add additional issues or comments on specific issues.  Open up the process and let your customers help to guide your efforts. 
    Alex1NM68000williamlondon

  • Apple suffers fourth consecutive quarter of declining sales, beat Wall Street anyway

    kelliekellie
    zone said:
    This is so dumb and of course, an overreaction to get people to give up their shares. Apple sales are only down because of the pandemic and the abnormal demand. Also, analyst forgets I guess about crazy inflation on other goods which cause people to have less money. Seems like an amazing quarter to me. Image any other tech company having a quarter like this? Also such a manipulated stock. All other tech companies are terrible but we give them a pass because they stink. As far as Apple prices they are not expensive compared to other high-quality products. No one complains about the cost of an LV purse, or a Rolex, or any other high-end brand. Shop at Walmart and buy crappy tech products if you don't have any more money. I'll stick with the best...
    Apple is a mass market consumer company.  You can’t compare them to Rolex and LV.  The market is giving Apple an adjustment because the stock trades at a huge P/E ratio and they are struggling to grow revenue.  You also just discount the effects of inflation.  That’s a huge factor and forces people to focus their spending on necessities and hold on to any tech they already have.  Your line about shopping at Walmart if you don’t have any more money shows you to be a person with no insights and a lack of empathy. 
    williamlondonnubus

  • Apple suffers fourth consecutive quarter of declining sales, beat Wall Street anyway

    kelliekellie
    CiaranF said:
    Maybe people are getting pissed off with your prices eh? Your actions on the market then drive up the prices of other smartphone manufacturers cos then they get greedy too. I remember buying my first iPhone 3GS for £299 or £349 back in 2009 or so. Now the same equivalent for me in a Pro Max model is circa £1400. That’s greed too, not inflation. 

    Now you’ve also increased your  One subscription prices globally. Third time in 2-3 years too if you’re outside of the US.  TV is useless, you’ve to pay for most of the non  stuff.  Fitness+ bugs the life out of me cos they’re all on Prozac or something with those fake smiles. iCloud is rubbish compared to Googles offering but I need it. Not much use for Arcade either. 

    Start listening to what your audience wants and will endure instead of telling them what they want or you’ll end up like Nokia. 
    Saying that your original 3G phone is the equivalent to a Pro Max and then comparing prices is ludicrous.  Comparing to an iPhone SE would be more appropriate.  And even in that case the functionality and capability are so different.  Apple is an expensive brand.  They do lots of things to piss off customers in terms of costly memory and storage upgrades, which I think in the long term hurts the brand.  They excel at hardware architecture and design.  They are not as strong with software.  There’s room for much improvement in cloud services.  Despite their humongous size, I think they are getting stretched thin which shows in their software shortcomings and trying to offer too many services.  They might actually benefit from getting out of some of their services.  As well as stopping the marketing department from controlling what tech gets offered in their products. 
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • First M3 benchmarks show big speed improvements over M2

    kelliekellie
    nubus said:
    Xed said:
    What's with all the weird ass comments saying that Apple should stop development of new chips?
    Indeed - we don't want the history of 68k or PowerPC to be repeated. On both occasions Apple couldn't deliver. With PowerMac G4 we had the situation where all specs got downgraded after launch by 15% as they couldn't ship for months.

    The benefit of x86 was "there is no difference". With M-series... Apple should deliver the difference. To see ray tracing as a base feature is great. But then we have Thunderbolt 3 from 2015, the 1 display limitation (better than iBook clamshell that had 0 ports), the M3 "no longer so" Pro, 8 GB, and the heavy Apple Tax on memory, the use of LPDDR5 instead of faster LPDDR5X, and the lack of upgrades to iMac (not even the camera got center stage, display is still 23.5", and accessories are not on USB C).

    The presentation with "iMac display is huge" and the launch of old accessories indicates that this iMac is not going to last for long. Apple is aware that the display is small, and the accessories need to be replaced within 6-8 months. And the current production node at TSMC is simply too expensive. Not sure if a node change will result in M4 Pro going Pro again or memory prices dropping, but it should.

    Black Friday might bring clearance sales on MBP 14 M2 Pro and iMac M1. They could both deliver great value compared to the M3 versions.
    You can be sure the design engineers at Apple are frustrated by some of the shortcomings you identified.  But Apple is driven by the Marketing Department and they like to slow and control the flow of new technologies.  Maximizing returns on already paid for tech. They will never allow memory or storage upgrades, there’s too much profit in it. 
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondonAlex1N

  • Prototype HomePod with LCD touchscreen surfaces in photo

    kelliekellie
    Apple’s smart home strategy should be focused on making what they’ve already deployed reliably functional.  They should also have the ability to control non-HomeKit devices.  As well as enhancing the functionality of Siri.  Apple seems to be primarily focused on hardware development.  Their software abilities are less impressive. 
    elijahg