You’re not offending me but you may get some hate mail.
Win10 is poised to be a Universal OS in the next few years. IOS and chili macOS(formerly known as OSX) will be splintered through eternity.
I just saw Dell unveiled their new XPS 15. That keeps them a year ahead of Apple but the gap is far more than that. Apple engineering has collapsed. Logistics doesn’t substitute for Engineering.
Engineering gave Apple their swagger, now Apple is like Al Capone sitting on the dock suffering from syphilis.
The key difference between Jobs and Cook is that Jobs had strategic vision and tactical tenacity while Cook thinks efficiency and profits. They were a great team but Cook could never be successful as a CEO of a company needing strategic vision and marketing skills.
Before Jobs returned to Apple they had a lot of projects and research, no cohesion of them in a strategic vision and the products were slopply marketed. THe iPad, the major changes in the MacBook Pro and operating system were the last last major products Jobs saw to completion.
THe TV and Siri efforts were totally changed once Jobs no longer had control nor energy for major input into them. Without Jobs the negotiations with media companies faltered and Cook did what he did best, maximize profits without consideration of long term growth of the company.
Cook wants to minimize research and squeeze every dollar out of existing products to maximize profits. What happens when there are no new significant products in the pipeline for customers nor significant vision direction to evolve the products? You get the current Apple and its direction.
Thanks for the early morning humor. Are you sure you didn't mean to post that on this thread instead? :-)
Your blind hatred of Apple seems to have caused you to miss something. Win10 is not doing well compared to where it needs to be. For instances, the uptake of Win10 has fallen below the uptake of Win7 at the same point in its deployment years ago.
...Even with the free upgrade offer, however, Windows 10 was unable to match the uptake pace of 2009's Windows 7, which last month again accounted for a majority (53%) of all Windows. At the 17-month mark, Windows 10's global user share of 26.6% -- of all Windows editions -- was slightly behind Windows 7's 27% at the same point in its post-launch timeline...The boastful goal of "Windows 10 on 1 billion devices in 2-3 years" has disappeared into the ozone. We can agree that Win10 is certainly the future of Windows, no argument there. But can it replace the others?
ComputerWorld
Let's plan to revisit your prediction in a few years.