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  • Can Apple innovate if iPhone remains the biggest slice of its revenues?

    HazenHazen
    …You can even look to the Apple silicon transition. We finally had an opportunity to give all the devices new powerful chips and drive down the cost of products by keeping everything in house. Yet, after M1, Tim leveraged the new chips to make every single product line more expensive. So expensive in fact, that they can introduce new products like the MacBook Air 15 inch that replaced the price point of the MacBook Pro 15 inch…because that’s now a 16 inch MacBook Pro and is over $1000 more expensive. Remember when the MacBook Pros got a $500 price increase because of the Touch Bar, and then they killed the Touch Bar and the product prices remained the same? 

    That’s Tim’s Apple. Slowly iterate on a well established product lines while not making any big changes because you’ve convinced your customers that straying from the norm is tied to a price increase, and since the market is already saturated and can’t bare anymore insane Tim Cook price bumps, then just kinda spin the wheels with small, sad feature updates until your customers can bare a price increase, and when they can, then give them a new features to justify it. 

    John Ternus for CEO! I have full faith in him to throw out Tim’s crappy management and to refocus on what makes Apple products great again…because it’s not just a price tag Tim…it’s not just a price tag.
    williamlondon

  • Can Apple innovate if iPhone remains the biggest slice of its revenues?

    HazenHazen
    Tim Cook can’t lead Apple to produce innovative products because he’s an operations guy. He knows how to sell price points tied to feature sets, not innovative products. That’s why we have two sets of AirPods 4. We only need one, we should only have one, and all of the innovative features of AirPods could have been boiled down into one strong, focused product…But we have two, because Tim couldn’t make AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 Pro because there‘a already AirPods Pro and that would be too confusing, so he split them into AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation. Y’know, because Active Noise Cancellation is a feature tied to a higher price point so Apple has to remove it for one set of AirPods to get you to spend more money…again, Tim likes price points tied to features, not products. 

    Look at Vision Pro. Worst battery life ever in an Apple product, more expensive than virtually Apple’s entire product portfolio, requires a big clunky battery bigger than an iPhone that you have to carry around, no killer feature, no innovative new way to work, no value proposition, and if you break it, Apple has to replace the entire device because they don’t yet know how to repair them. 

    That’s not innovation. That’s Tim Cook trying to sell you something you don’t need and hoping that it pays off for Apple’s bottom line.

    Innovation at Apple is dead so long as Tim Cook is the CEO. 

    Period. 
    grandact73williamlondon

  • Apple kicks off blitz of worldwide visionOS developer events

    HazenHazen
    Pema said:
    Kicking a dead horse is what this is. 
    The horse was cremated and everything and they popped the lid off like it’s a sugar dish.
    williamlondon

  • Apple kicks off blitz of worldwide visionOS developer events

    HazenHazen
    Desperate for a reason as to why Vision Pro should exist (other than to sell you a new platform you don’t need): Apple asks developers - What do? 
    williamlondon