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entropys said:

bloggerblog said:

Cook's leadership in new innovative products is questionable. His relationship with Jobs worked because Jobs was the visionary and Cook did the logistics.
I have little faith in his leadership of a corporate vision, especially after the hype he built behind the "Hello Again" keynote only to introduce a silly Touch Bar keyboard.

Expectations are low...

The trouble with innovations is they don’t always work. The Cube and the Touch Bar are examples of that.  Innovation requires risk.
There is no question Apple has done well under Cook’s leadership. Its margins are healthy and the supply chain no doubt is impressive.  But I suspect you are right that he isn’t the vision man that Jobs was. Iterations keeping product up to date aren’t happening I suspect because it complicates the supply chain and raises costs. We don’t know what ideas haven’t happened because margin protection was uncertain.

Who could be? Forstall had elements of the perfectionist that Jobs was, and maybe a bit of the vision too, so from the rest of the executive’s perspective he was a goner once Jobs had passed away.

designr said:

bitmod said:

What about software developers like Adobe? Fonts? Importing old files? I lived through the Rosetta era and it was brutal. Brutal. Just brutal. The hardware may have switched in a year, but the software nightmare was real for well over 3. They will have to do better on the software side.

I think it's very different now. The OS (since X...built from NEXTSTEP) had this concept of "fat binaries" (called "universal" I think) which was basically just a click of a checkbox to have your app cross-compiled to multiple target CPUs. Pretty sure all that's still there. I would think this transition would be the smoothest yet.

lkrupp said:

allmypeople said:

Apple can do whatever they want but I can't imagine who would even pay for this stuff. It's no wonder magazine empires are shrinking.

My wife is an avid quilter and she subscribes to four different quilting magazines. I’m an amateur astronomy fan and subscribe to two of the most popular magazines on the subject. If just these magazines would become available on Apple’s news service we would save money. I can think of a number of magazines I would like to see in such a service, like National Geographic for example. So I can imagine lots of people who would “pay for this stuff.” 

rogifan_new said:

robbyx said:

rogifan_new said:

robbyx said:

rogifan_new said:

This tweet too is spot on:

Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) 1/2/19, 5:24 PM IMHO, complaints about pricing, price points, home buttons, headphone jacks, batteries, upgrade cycles, etc. are all valid but are also all besides the point, which remains:  Can Apple transition iPhone from growth driver to platform that enables more growth drivers?  That’s it.

This is pretty spot on.  Apple has hundreds of millions of iPhone customers.  How do you get those people to buy more things?  And what are those things?  Clearly they aren't Macs.  They are AirPods, however.  And Apple Music subscriptions.  Video is the logical next step.

As someone who has bought Apple products (and stock) for almost 40 years, I remember many long years where Apple sold 1 device for every 1000 the other guys sold.  They struck silver with the iPod and then gold with the iPhone.  The iPod appealed to all sorts of people.  You didn't have to be a techie.  Apple built a better mousetrap and the public responded.  And then came the iPhone.  Everyone needs a phone.  Apple built a better phone and, again, the public responded.  So what else has incredibly broad appeal and needs a better use experience?  And is Apple even the company to deliver these days?  I personally wish they'd focus more on home automation and deliver some killer first party products in that area.  I also think they should get serious about audio, maybe buy Sonos.  HomePod was a huge miss.  I would have bought at least 6 for my house if it wasn't such a gimped product.

Agree 100%. And with a new video service coming maybe Apple should get into the TV business. I know TVs are a low margin business but it wouldn’t be about the TV so much as about tvOS and Apple’s video service. Every time I go into Best Buy the busiest part of the store is their TV section. I have a 4K TCL TV with Roku. I hardly ever fire up my Apple TV box. But if Apple sold a smart TV with tvOS and all the benefits of the Apple ecosystem I’d seriously think about getting one. And it wouldnt have to be outrageously priced because it would be all about getting Apple video service subs.

I completely agree on TV.  Like you, I've also observed that the TV part of the store is always the busiest.  I know there are many negatives when it comes to the TV business, but I think Apple could do for TV (hardware, as well as media distribution and discovery) what it did for portable audio and telephony.

Yes. Apple should totally be thinking about this. The market for smart TVs isn’t close to being saturated. And the easiest way to get people to sign up for your streaming tv service is to make it easy to access right from your TV set.

igorsky said:

hummerchine said:

That may or make sense for Netflix...

But how does it make sense for Apple to allow any app on it’s store for free?

There are hard costs associated with running their servers.  I must be missing something...

This is really the only point that matters.  Apple deserves to profit from its marketplace just like ANY OTHER COMPANY deserves to profit from theirs.  Not sure why there are always two sets of rules...you'll never hear these concerns when it comes to Amazon, Walmart, or even the Google Play store.