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HomePod with big touchscreen likely isn't coming in 2024
Look ...no CEO is going to bat a 1000. But there are issues with the current Apple.
Apple News - life support or should be.
Apple Fitness - No traction
Apple Music - It's decent but if it disappeared today my Tidal account would suffice. There's no stickiness to Apple Music beyond being part of the One Sub
Ads in the App Store - Seriously? A premium product with an unbearable app store. Thanks.
CSAM - Did Cook not listen to his handlers? You can't preach privacy while simultaneously rifling through people's digital data.
Personally I'm "not" going to stop buying iPhones and Mac for the foreseeable future. I may even buy a Vision Pro when they are sub $2k in cost. My hope is now that Apple Vision Pro is a shipping product Apple can continue to evolve the product and assign more engineering effort to smaller product lines.
I think people are ready for a Homepod for the TV with Facetime. I've said for three years now I think Shareplay may be Apple's most underrated technology. Generative AI is buzzword compliant filler. Yes it's fantastic for creatives but most consumers aren't creative. What most consumers crave, even if they don't realize it, is connection and community. I'm reminded of this when I travel to a theater to watch a movie just hit the cinemas. That packed Theater creates a small micro-community and we all feed off of non-verbal connections.
Bullish on Apple being able to do this but they gotta ship product. As the saying goes "if you shipped your first product without bugs you waited too long"
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HomePod with big touchscreen likely isn't coming in 2024
StrangeDays said:hmurchison said:Tim Cook
It's time to retire. Go out on top Make the Vision Pro your swan song.
We've seen Apple stagnate before and they have stagnated. When I talk to my sons their excitement is about wanting to Podcast, Livestream and game capture. They mirror other kids are talking about. None of this specifically ties them to Apple products.
I'm happy with my iPhone 14 and may early upgrade to the 16. Gonna get a M3 this year but that's Apple platform table stakes. Taking 5 years to deliver a basic Echo Show/Google Hub product????? We're not looking for transformative devices here just something that functions well in the ecosystem.
When Johnny Ive left I was unbothered because I found his designs were becoming a bit too esoteric. Apple's done just fine in the design department. On the flip side though without Jobs's innate vision for design and product UI/UX ..Apple has struggled to move even a little bit from their sandbox. -
HomePod with big touchscreen likely isn't coming in 2024
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Apple's first foldable screen probably won't be on the iPhone
I feel like this movement towards foldable devices is something that Steve Jobs would have canned early.
I agree with @danox
Why muddy the focus? iPhone's for pocketable devices, iPads for portable iOS devices, Macbooks for portable Mac OS based product and Vision for next generation computing.
Remember if it doesn't make sense to the point where the path to success doesn't seem clear and reasonable them Apple is likely not doing it.
Hey ...according to the Press that Apple Car is due next year right? -
Apple could be just a year away from being worth $4 trillion
How does that benefit users.
The App Store has gotten so bad it's become a place to visit find what you need and leave as quickly as possible. Finding new stuff is a horrible experience that yields little fruit. The advertising started out as a small nuisance and that has expanded to a half screen sized block showing what you did "not" search for.
Apple is certainly managing things better than most Fortune 100 companies but quite honestly from a User Experience context most of these companies are failing. I never thought in a million years Microsoft would screw Office up to the point where it's cringe to use but we are here.
I hope the young kids getting into Computer Science realize the black hole that a lot of these companies chasing Wall Street valuations have fallen into an aspire to return to the roots of what propels most human advancement and that's doing things motivated by the greater good.