OutdoorAppDeveloper

No amount of lobbying will prevent the US government from becoming insolvent. The only way out of this mess is a massive shift to automation which would create infinite productivity gains to the point that it will break current economic models. (Hint: If you have a model that factors in the number of people working and that number goes to zero even as production increases greatly you get a divide by zero error.) Apple has not shown any great progress in automated factories but it is never too later for them to invest in companies that have had more long term vision.

Apple should go back to making great hardware and operating systems and leave the customers and developers to make their own decisions. Apple has not done well in the roll of an evil mega-corp trying to control every tiny aspect of how their phones, watches and tablets are used.

Let's hope they fix their Bluetooth connectivity which is a complete mess in the QC 35 and 700 headphones. Constant disconnections. Hard to connect even to a Samsung TV. Terrible battery life. However when plugged into a PS5 controller, they are still pretty great.

robaba said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

It should have been home robots based on the technology Apple created to operate its automated factories all over the world ... but Apple did none of that. Cook is an amazing CEO. He has consistently created excellent products with amazing build quality and design containing some of the latest silicon on the market and got it produced in sufficient quantities to satisfy the market and released them on time year after year. Unfortunately he never had the kind of vision for the future that Steve Jobs did. Cook never disrupted the market the way Jobs did routinely. The lack of a $300 Mac Nano which would have moved Apple's 8% computer market share to 25% is the clearest evidence of this fact.

What’s clear to me is that you have offered zero evidence to suggest that a $300 Mac Nano (is offered) would significantly increase the Mac market share let alone skyrocket it to 25%.  I believe that it’s current plan to push the performance envelope, while maintaining a pro-sumer market strategy and building out a more robust handheld market will continue to gain market share worldwide.

Because (duh) it's price to performance ratio would be well outside of anything a current Intel or AMD PC could achieve. I can run GTA V on Windows 11 with Parallels on my M1 Mac Mini at playable frame rates. Native games would run a lot faster.

It should have been home robots based on the technology Apple created to operate its automated factories all over the world ... but Apple did none of that. Cook is an amazing CEO. He has consistently created excellent products with amazing build quality and design containing some of the latest silicon on the market and got it produced in sufficient quantities to satisfy the market and released them on time year after year. Unfortunately he never had the kind of vision for the future that Steve Jobs did. Cook never disrupted the market the way Jobs did routinely. The lack of a $300 Mac Nano which would have moved Apple's 8% computer market share to 25% is the clearest evidence of this fact.