sirozha

If DED lived in Russia, he would be a pro-Kremlin pro-Putin media apologist, judging by the fervor with which he bashes everything Android and defends everything Apple. 

I am an AAPL shareholder, and I want Apple to succeed and grow, but there is no reason to slam and bash everything Android because that creates a false sense of security and helps Tim Cook and the rest of Apple leadership rest on their laurels while some real innovation happens on the Android side of the equation, which makes Android more and more compelling choice. This will become increasingly the case if - God forbid - the tariffs on Apple products materialize in the near future. 

Those who continue to bash Android are basing their uneducated opinion on the Android (and Android handsets) of a decade ago. Pick up the modern Android phone (not a Samsung one) and spend a few days with it. You will see that Android today is a formidable alternative to the iPhone. Then, you will understand how badly Tim Cook is squandering the advantage that the iPhone once (and perhaps still) has had over Android. While Cook is innovating with Emojis, Animojis, and rainbow watch faces, Google is breathing Apple in the neck with their real innovations. A few examples are Google Maps, Google Assistant, and Android Auto. If Apple continues to remain complacent, I don't even want to think about what will happen to my investment portfolio. 

rwes said:

sirozha said:

Apple’s profit is 16% down this quarter when compared with the same quarter last year. However, the stock is up over 4%. I guess Wall Street finally gets Apple the same way it gets Amazon. 

Is it their profit that's down 16% or do you mean their revenue?

Profit. 

commentzilla said:

sirozha said:

Google and Microsoft are tremendous cash machines. The fact that Google isn’t making money on Chromebooks doesn’t mean
thay Google is not making money. By offering Chromebooks Google prevented Apple
from making many additional billions of dollars by not being able to sell as many iPads to schools as they could have, had there not been a cheaper alternative available. Google also denied Apple more than 75% of the smartphone market. Google may not have made much money on Android, but they surely prevented Apple from making hundreds of billions of dollars more. At the same time, Google is killing it in its core business, which is advertising, and Apple can't touch Google there no matter how hard Apple tries. 

Microsoft failed in mobile OS, but Microsoft is killing it in the Enterprise software while steadily approaching the 1 Trillion capitalization after a lost decade under Ballmer. So, whereas Microsoft’s mistakes are behind them, Apple seems to be walking into the lost decade now. For one, I do not understand what all those tens of thousands of Apple engineers are doing because nothing revolutionary that should take so many engineers to create has come out of Apple lately. 

Maybe we are about to see a new revolutionary product come out of Apple this year. Otherwise, I simply don’t understand what Apple has been doing lately. 

As for the improvements in iCloud and Apple maps, they are simply laughable. I try Apple maps every six months, but it’s just as bad as it has been for years. It gets me lost every time without a fail. As for iCloud, the storage portion of it is so rudimentary! I still can’t share folders with my wife, who is on the same Family Sharing account. Hence, we can’t work on the same project (like taxes) in parallel. This is such a basic functionality that Apple can’t figure out that iCloud storage is not even suitable for simple tasks done by traditional families. 

I want products that work really well together, not something all together brand new that works half-ass. Checkout Samsung's folding tablet.

Apple gives me seamless integration and 5-7 years of updates for all of there products. 2013 MBP running the latest OS and a slew of other Apple products keep on ticking. I bet my discontinued Apple TimeCapsule keeps getting updates long after Netgear gives up on it's shitty R8000 router with it's half-ass and unreliable Time Machine functionality. Recently, I just sold my 2008 MBP with no battery and a taped up power supply; try that with a 11-year old PC laptop or Chromebook.

Sure, Apple Maps isn't as good as Google Maps but the reason is simple. Google doesn't care about your privacy so it's able to suck every last bit of location data out of any device it's connected to. I recently read a report that Google's server query Android devices 100s of times more a day that Apple does with its devices. See, it's not a matter of skill, rather it just theft. Google is happy to give you all the free shit you need, if they can have your privacy up for auction to the highest bidder. Free is not free.

Because I don’t rob banks or cheat on my wife, I’m okay with Google querying my device hundreds of times as often but getting
me to my destinations reliably every time. 

By by the way, when I go to Quebec for summers, Apple maps is much more accurate there than Google Maps. Apple can do accurate routing, but in the part of the US where I live, Apple Maps is dismal and has been such since its inception. It’s one of the largest cities in the US.  It was so bad that when I would ask Apple Maps to navigate me to the Jewish Community Center, it would try to navigate me to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. No, I’m not kidding. Apple finally fixed that blooper years later. When I ask Apple Maps to navigate me to Firestone, it tries to navigate me to the one 32 miles away, whereas there’s a Firestone 3 miles from my house. That’s how incompetent Apple Maps navigation is. 

Google and Microsoft are tremendous cash machines. The fact that Google isn’t making money on Chromebooks doesn’t mean
thay Google is not making money. By offering Chromebooks Google prevented Apple
from making many additional billions of dollars by not being able to sell as many iPads to schools as they could have, had there not been a cheaper alternative available. Google also denied Apple more than 75% of the smartphone market. Google may not have made much money on Android, but they surely prevented Apple from making hundreds of billions of dollars more. At the same time, Google is killing it in its core business, which is advertising, and Apple can't touch Google there no matter how hard Apple tries. 

Microsoft failed in mobile OS, but Microsoft is killing it in the Enterprise software while steadily approaching the 1 Trillion capitalization after a lost decade under Ballmer. So, whereas Microsoft’s mistakes are behind them, Apple seems to be walking into the lost decade now. For one, I do not understand what all those tens of thousands of Apple engineers are doing because nothing revolutionary that should take so many engineers to create has come out of Apple lately. 

Maybe we are about to see a new revolutionary product come out of Apple this year. Otherwise, I simply don’t understand what Apple has been doing lately. 

As for the improvements in iCloud and Apple maps, they are simply laughable. I try Apple maps every six months, but it’s just as bad as it has been for years. It gets me lost every time without a fail. As for iCloud, the storage portion of it is so rudimentary! I still can’t share folders with my wife, who is on the same Family Sharing account. Hence, we can’t work on the same project (like taxes) in parallel. This is such a basic functionality that Apple can’t figure out that iCloud storage is not even suitable for simple tasks done by traditional families. 

I want macOS on the iPad when the iPad is docked in to a keyboard with a trackpad. When undocked, it should be an iOS device. The device would replace the iPad Pro / MacBook / MacBook Air and cost under $1,500. Apple could call it macPad. The macPad could serve most students and be used for non-task-intensive professional applications at work.

The MacBook Pro would continue to be a macOS-only device, run on the Intel architecture, and cost north of $2,000 all the way to $5,000 (depending on specs and screen size).

The non-Pro iPad would remain iOS only and be mostly a content-consumption device. It should be under $500.