sagan_student

Originally had a Series 2. Before getting one my wife asked why did I need one and I remember saying I don’t, but it would become one of those things that simply gets integrated into routine and before you know it, it’s something you use all of the time. She replied with, fine. I want one too. Flash forward to the release of the series 7; it carved out a huge space in our lives that we both upgraded from the aluminum to the steel. One of the many things I appreciate about the watch is the ability for me to not have my phone with me at all times. Working out, it’s just my watch and AirPods. One the golf course having a round of party golf, it provides me my yardage, scorecard, ability to play music, and buy rounds off of the drink cart; all while never pulling out my phone. Apple truly did nail the why and how one would use a device on your wrist.

dewme said:

Restructuring I understand. Companies change focus or decide to abandon products that under-perform, consolidate operations, etc.

But efficiencies and redundancies? Does anyone else wonder why a company would have kept personal around that it describes as being in those roles in the first place?

As a business, even when the money is flowing and the bottom line is looking fabulous, wouldn't you still want to focus on optimizing and reducing unnecessary work and waste? Isn't the tolerance of inefficiency and waste totally against the whole premise and principles of things like Lean and continuous improvement? 

I am in agreement with much of what you say and I just wanted to add that I find it dumbfounding that a quarter of their staff was redundant and inefficient. This is definitely not a hallmark of a well run business. Have they offered any reason other than these blanket statements of redundant and inefficiency? I find it difficult to believe that a company that has this much fat to cut, understands any other part of their business well. 🤷‍♂️ 

jcs2305 said:

What's interesting to me is where the belief that this unannounced product will somehow cost $3,000.00!! That is a very specific amount for something that can't even be verified to exist! Yikes!  Even Sony's VR2 which getting good reviews and is being considered a pretty solid offering is $549.00.

It’ll be interesting to see if the Apple VR system is stand alone. If it is, then we would need to consider that the PSVR requires a PS5 which also costs 500 dollars. So to do anything with the PSVR 2 requires a 1000 dollar investment. Still a huge leap to 3000, but not as drastic as 500 to 3000.

hexclock said:

That’s why Asian and Indian Americans are the most successful minority groups in the US. They work very hard in school, and at their employment. The rest of us should emulate that. 

I am curious what the data is on third generation immigrant families still possessing that same work ethic is. I suspect that they would be less like their grandparents and more like the cultural norm. 

dysamoria said:

How many of you take advantage of being able to type long iMessages with paragraph breaks? Does it not bother you that you cannot scroll that text box (you know, to do proofreading; people do proofread, right??) without iOS getting “confused” and “assuming” you want to close the keyboard? Just me, huh? Because that’s what it feels like.

It feels like I’m the only person who uses this device enough to notice the mountain of bugs and conflicting gestures that it has become. It feels like no one at Apple actually uses their own products and that people on these Apple forums cannot see flaws.

Today’s Apple is not the same company as the Apple being showcased in the years of the iPhone’s first few years. I want that Apple back. There is no Steve Jobs to have back, and there’s also a lot of lost vision and attention to detail that seems it’s never coming back as well. It’s depressing.

Am I missing something here? To scroll, just touch and hold the spacebar. The keyboard turns into a trackpad and you scroll to where you want to make an edit. Or are you referring to something else?

I share your sentiment as I have my own frustrations, but I disagree with your conclusion. When comparing current day iPhones with the iPhone as a new product there are many details that cannot be glossed over. One that conflicts with your statement of Apple not caring, is that the first iPhone was extremely limited. These imposed limits that Apple chose to put on the original (and earlier) iPhones is what made it ‘just work’. It wasn’t trying to be everything, it was doing 3 things well. As time and competition caught up, additional features come into the fold. More features = more places for bugs to hide. Whenever, I start to get frustrated by something that I feel Apple should be doing better at, I look to my friends that have Android or Alexa and see that they also suffer from their own bugs/limits.

Unfortunately that Apple no longer exists. It is one of the biggest, wealthiest and most successful companies in the world now. They are no longer maintaining a single vision from which to grow; but, rather, a larger and all encompassing one. They can no longer be a company that will surprise everyone with a new piece of tech, like AR/VR glasses, that will revolutionize the industry and be unlike anything from Apple that we have ever seen. Everything they do in this space has to about being a piece of the larger picture for Apple, which is to say how does AR/VR fit into what and where Apple is currently headed. And for that, IMO, Apple can never be what there were 20 years ago. It can be seen as a sad reality, but such is life. I cannot be my teenage, carefree, and self-absorbed me ever again; I have seen and experienced too many things. No matter how hard I try, I can never be that again. 🤷‍♂️