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Posted on 01/21/2016 12:24:26 AM PST by Swordmaker
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Thanks for posting something to help distract from the Cruz vs Trump feuding currently causing a lot of hard feelings.
The video of the Earth being destroyed by an asteroid will be taken using an iPhone. ;’)
Prediction: This author will one day end up selecting what new car he’s going to buy based upon whether it offers integrated discrete Apple CarPlay.
Thanks again bro.
"Someone could argue that iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were self-disrupting--that such dramatically larger handsets risked pushing away some customers. Not when Apple kept selling smaller, older models and when market demand had shifted to larger smartphones. If anything, Tim Cook demonstrated risk-aversion and supply-chain thinking by taking so long to release handsets with larger screens. This is where his genius bows before logistics that make short-term revenue-generating, margin-maximizing sense at the expense of Apple's innovation ethic."
What Joe Wilcox fails to recognize is that the iPhone 6 and 6plus, as well as the following year's iPhone 6S and 6S plus didn't disrupt previous iPhones, they disrupted the iPad market, especially the iPad Mini market. Like the iPhone before it has completely disrupted the iPod market because no one could justify carrying an iPod when an iPod was built into every iPhone ever sold, therefore iPods stopped selling in as large a number as they sold in before, the larger screened iPhones make smaller screened iPads some what superfluous. Why use an 8" iPad when a 6plus has a 5.5 inch screen with a higher resolution that is almost as big, and will do just fine for most things the larger iPad Mini could do? That is why the iPad market is dropping in sales.
In other words, Apple under Tim Cook, is still willing to disrupt its own products as it was under Steve Jobs. Apple is doing the same exact thing with the iPad Pro and the MacBook Airs.
Joe Wilcox's premise is completely wrong there.
"Idiots will flame this post "clickbait". It's how they draw attention to themselves, to inflate their egos; others mistakenly will assign motivation to my writing—e.g., for pageviews, when I couldn't care less about them. But I do care about Apple, as a longstanding customer (starting in December 1998). As a journalist, I developed a reputation for hating the company (I don't) so long loved because my stories aren't kiss-ass fanboyism. What's that saying about being hardest on the ones you love most? Kind I am not."
His first amazing paragraph. Stunning isn't it?
Wilcox also starts out his screed by trying to inoculate himself against any criticism by claiming anyone who does criticize him are egotistical "idiots" trying to garner attention to themselves. It strikes me his insulting ad hominem blanket attack is pure projection. His entire article is a cry for attention and clickbait for hits. He announces it for what it is, Pure FUD BUNKUM, and then tries to claim it really isn't by deflecting the critics even before they call him out on it. Hilarious! As far as I can recall, Wilcox has never written a positive article about Apple.
Probably from the new, improved Apple Spacecraft 9S. . .
You're welcome.
I am definitely not an Apple fan boy, but Apple has a long and profitable future to look forward to.
Wouldn't be surprised if Apple ends up with a significant share of the future drone market, self-driving auto market, and even space delivery market.
The Apple watch was just a nifty toy for fan boys. The Apple car will be a useful product for everyone.
Other than saying Apple isn’t innovative anymore, did he display that the products are junk? Sub par? Don’t work? Worse than a PC? If so, I didn’t see that. The company will never be as it was when Jobs was alive, in fact it seems to be morphing more PC like everyday, but is it there yet?
This cannot be true. Donnie says he is going to make Apple maker their phones in the USA.
Apple needs an iShoe.
They said the same thing in the 90s.
They've said it every FUD season. . . which is the three weeks or so before any Apple announcement or event. Next week is Apple's scheduled announcement of the financial results for their first fiscal quarter of 2016 when they tell everyone how well they did during the Christmas selling season. So, all of the FUD spinners come out of their holes and spin like crazy, trying to force the stock down as far as possible.
Nike has been making that for them for years.
I don't know, first thing I thought of was: Cruz supporter venting. Seriously though, is taking the first paragraph and dedicating it to denying you re not being bitter and have no agenda etc ... is that good writing style?
Author seems to think EVERY new product and update should be “disruptive”.
I bought two iPads (as gifts) and a 128GB iPod Touch (for myself) over the Christmas holiday. So I’m hoping that my purchases helped put Apple over the top so far as having successful first fiscal quarter results.
“Author seems to think EVERY new product and update should be “disruptiveâ€.”
Many companies exist quietly for years making a profit making and selling plumbing supplies. This is not dishonorable work for them, their employees, or their stockholders.
The truth is, that most technological changes/improvements have been incremental over the last several years, and “the next big thing” -the Internet of Things - hasn’t caught on yet for several reasons.
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