Apple faces reality
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- formed0
Not everyone cares about apps. They are fun, there are some great ones, great functionality, but I could live without them. Most people I know could live without them, too. They use them because they are there, not because they need them. That said, clearly some people love them (just like I'll never understand the time people waste so much time playing video games).
Competition is good. Do or die. Just watched a piece on the Razr. Only a few years ago it was the shit, now barely anyone remembers that Motorola makes phones. 130 million of those were sold. Not too shabby.
Shocking how fast Motorola fell from grace (not the same, but worth pointing out).
- instrmntl0
This is a good read and goes along with that WSJ article. It caused my boss to switch. Within 2 weeks of customization, his phone is pretty amazing. This is the article that prompted the switch:
AN IPHONE LOVER'S CONFESSION: I SWITCHED TO THE NEXUS 4. COMPLETELY.
http://rottmann.net/2013/01/an-i…
- inteliboy0
The iPhone line alone is bigger than Microsoft's entire business. Think about that for a second. And they make great products (yeah, they do). But that's not good enough for nobody it seems.
It's the pressure from stockholders/investors that can destroy a company. I agree with Mono. Apple need to give everyone the finger and stick to their guns. No Apple, please don't make a massive phablet, TV or cheap iPhone just because everyone is fickle and salivating for the "next big thing". Like a fat american demanding the next special from McDonalds.
Also if Apple aren't the underdog anymore, who is? Google? Samsung? All these guys are fucking juggernauts.
- Funny enough, Microsoft makes over 10 billion per year licensing patents for Android.shaft
- twokids0
Yeah, formed. good point. I think the overriding trend isnt that companys and products rise and fall, it is how FAST it happens now.
The iPad now seems almost quaint. Not magic, just a thing most people have.
What will it look like in 10 years?
- autoflavour0
so apparently mac pro is being discontinued in Europe as of 1 March due to non compliance with standards here..
I am assuming there is a new one in the pipe line?
- New Mac Pros by Summermonospaced
- New Pros should make a lot of video professionals happy.ETM
- monospaced0
- I like the G+ there at the bottom.formed
- me toomonospaced
- CALLES0
Yes please go back to making good desktops and stop playing phone company
- The desktop is dead.Frosty_spl
- < joblessset
- so where will we be doing large graphic files? phones? pad?CALLES
- im woprking on a 3300x1330 in ae. where am i supposed to do that!CALLES
- More powerful macbook pros hooked up to big monitors. (future)Frosty_spl
- macbook pro are weak for video workmoldero
- the future is small powerful devices attached to whatever screen size you want right nowribit
- The future is SmartDonkeys and cannibalism.eoin
- GeorgesII0
Summoning the spirit of Mono___
- The one we can't nameGeorgesII
- talk all the shit you wantmonospaced
- ukit20
Paging Boz...
- formed0
Apple is a publicly traded company. That means that they answer to the shareholders. That means that nothing matter more than the bottom line.
Cheap iPhone? If it means they will make more money, they will do it.
Right now, they are riding the wave. Remember it wasn't too long ago that Bill Gates bailed Jobs out. One missed step and Apple's "luster" could falter. If that happens, they will be just another player in a crowded space (and surely still make a gazillion dollars, but they won't be the 'best' anymore).
Same is true with Facebook. They have to come up with the 'next big thing' or they will falter.
Looking forward to Google's X phone! Praying they get it right this time.
- "it wasn't too long ago" it was 16 years ago...animatedgif
- "praying they get it right this time. LOL talk about perspectivesESKEMA
- First, Apple already made tons of missteps, so they've already faltered. Second, what makes you think the X would be different than Android?monospaced
- would be different from Android?monospaced
- By 'get it right' something that is better than their previous effortsformed
- you think they'll ditch Android and start over? you cray craymonospaced
- futuremongolian0
Had 2 iPhones. Got the Samsung S3.
S3 > iPhone by texas mile my homeboys.
- detritus0
I'm so glad Apple invented the smartphone.
- GeorgesII0
Summoning the entity known as Steve Jo___
- ernexbcn0
Apple just had the best quarter in their history and they are getting over 70% of all the profits of the smartphone industry and that's without being the #1 platform which is Android now.
That and having 120 billion in cash and cash derivatives says they have a lot of options. It seems some people pretend they have to produce a fancy new product every year like a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat, it's delusional.
- 137 billion according to the articleernexbcn
- Expectations are fucking delusional, that's right. Apple needs to keep ignoring people and just do what they do.monospaced
- You missed the part where they are going to give back most of that cash to their investors.zarkonite
- It's going to level off in the next decade, look at Sony. Still alive but not the powerhouse it used to be.zarkonite
- Apple is missing the next generation of users with the poor uptake of the iphone 5.monNom
- iphone6 will be make or break for them.monNom
- monospaced0
About time. I can't wait until Apple is the underdog again and the only people using their products are ones getting stuff done. This whole "I have an Apple so I'm cool and creative in a coffeeshop" shit is getting old. I seriously hope the masses move away complete from them, that the spotlight shifts to say, Microsoft or Google or whatever, and that Apple can go back to taking their time to make good products instead of pampering the vocal internet masses and wannabe stock analysts.
- monospaced0
What's cool this time around is that Apple has tons of cash, so they're at no risk of going under like they almost did in the '90s. They have the kind of money to move in totally new directions if they wanted to.
- fate0
Wallstreets perception != reality
They think without Jobs, the company is doomed.
I don't even like Apple, but their recent change of fortune isn't based in reality.