christopher126

GeorgeBMac said:

christopher126 said:

Jason Snell (former Editor of MacWorld magazine) made a great observation. AppleWatch has crushed the competition into oblivion.

Rather like what the iPad have done. Where competitors have just given up. He said, he thinks a lot of people were thinking it would be like the iPhone, where Android has a huge market share...but no profits. Except where they harvest and sell your data!

 BTW, I'm still rocking my Series Zero for every day wear to complete my circles and running.
 
Will be buying the new gen., so I can swim, and use the watch so I don't have to carry my iPhone.

Best

P.S. I remember back in the day when Apple iPod had 87% of the iPod (MP3 disc) market...and then Apple introduced the iPod shuffle (Flash based) and had 87% of that market by the following Friday! Good times. I miss looking at my white intel iMac, intel white MacBook, my shuffle and original iPhone with my white Apple spaceship router and Steve giving the KeyNotes. Oh well.

Yes, they DID crush it.   Undeniably.  
But, like the Terminator:   "They'll be back!".  
Other vendors will keep on improving their hardware and eventually catch up to Apple's hardware -- just as they've done with other Apple products.

But, like those other products, those competitors will always be lacking one important thing:  Apple's software, its ecosystem and how it all integrates with other Apple products.

My Apple Watch integrates seamlessly with Apple's ecosystem, my iPhone and, to a lesser degree, my Mac.   It is an integration that cannot adequately be expressed in words -- but they all compliment each other and make each other stronger.   I seriously doubt that any competitor will ever be able to match that.

Couldn't agree more. The quality software and the eco-system. It's why I only use the Apple Apps, mail, safari, Pages etc., etc. They may not be as full-featured as the third-party apps but they are so damn integrated!

Jason Snell (former Editor of MacWorld magazine) made a great observation. AppleWatch has crushed the competition into oblivion.

Rather like what the iPad have done. Where competitors have just given up. He said, he thinks a lot of people were thinking it would be like the iPhone, where Android has a huge market share...but no profits. Except where they harvest and sell your data!

 BTW, I'm still rocking my Series Zero for every day wear to complete my circles and running.
 
Will be buying the new gen., so I can swim, and use the watch so I don't have to carry my iPhone.

Best

P.S. I remember back in the day when Apple iPod had 87% of the iPod (MP3 disc) market...and then Apple introduced the iPod shuffle (Flash based) and had 87% of that market by the following Friday! Good times. I miss looking at my white intel iMac, intel white MacBook, my shuffle and original iPhone with my white Apple spaceship router and Steve giving the KeyNotes. Oh well.

Lame

radarthekat said:

That sidebar on how FB will protect privacy under the FTC agreement...  that’s gonna make a lot of FB engineers and tech writers and managers take a hard look at their jobs.  

I don’t mean looking at how they can do their jobs better to protect users’ privacy.  I mean, exercising and selling their vested options and preparing to find another, more interesting and less tedious job.  

I won’t be at all surprised even to see Zuck begin to disengage; go think about some new challenge to direct his enormous funds and limited energies to.  The bloom is off the rose.  

Trust me, my entire career was in software startups and I know when that switch gets flipped and you start disengaging from that thing you previously thought was the coolest thing ever and start thinking about the next thing you want to do with your life.  

Good points. I agree about the employees. But Zuck is a sociopath.

Hmmmmm.

Any company soliciting 'over the phone' is a 'Dogsh*t' company.

It's as simple as that!




P.S. Oops. Sorry for the exclamation mark. The rule, is to only use the exclamation mark, once every 300,000 words.

P.S.S. Coincidentally, on average, people only write 300,000 words in their lifetime.