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And so it begins... the once innovative company is now playing catch up, losing a little bit of its sex appeal as it copies the bland competition.
If innovation were what mattered, everyone would be browsing with Opera.
The announcements today just make me hang my head in chagrin. I love Apple products. Both my wife and I only use Macbooks, we have multiple iPads, iPods, and a second generation Apple TV. I look at this iPad Pro though and I see a totally useless device. For a device at that size, weight, and cost you would be better served buying an Macbook Air. If you want a tablet form factor then you would be better served buying…
> For a device at that size, weight, and cost you would be better served buying an Macbook Air For a device at that size, weight, and cost you would be better served buying a Macbook Air. Apple has dozens of devices for dozens of use cases and types of buyers. I would never use the new MacBook (not good enough specs), and most of HN thinks it's a terrible idea. But my wife loves it. She doesn't need to run a virtual…
Obviously the same use cases for both products!
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iOS has a 14% market share
DOMINATION.
Androids huge sales are mostly low end of the market -- people who don't care about smartphones or computers, and just get whats cheaper with a 2 year contract.
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The risk with Microsoft's approach is that companies will think "our Windows app runs fine on Surface" and invest little on making their application work great on Surface because they form a small part of the market. The risk with Apple's approach is that companies will think "it's too much work to make a custom UI for such a small market". I guess time will tell who wins this. Possibly, things will go like they went…
I think Apple will have a very hard time convincing companies to port / produce complex apps that come with a lifetime of free updates. Mac App store has failed pretty objectively at applying iOS conventions to serious software.
For an example, see http://www.pcronline.com/eurointervention/textbook/pcr-textb...:
"Get the iPad application for only $149.99"
Maybe that is just a web site in an app with limited interactivity, but there definitely seems to be competition in that market. The disadvantage of free updates in such markets may be more than balanced by the advantage of very limited ability to resell apps (the easiest way I know to resell apps is to create separate iTunes accounts for each app, and let te buyer set a new password for that account. That becomes impractical soon, of you have tens of apps)
That 3D knee visualization, to me, seems a clear indication of that.
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And so it begins... the once innovative company is now playing catch up, losing a little bit of its sex appeal as it copies the bland competition.
Honestly, I'm more than happy with my Surface Pro 3, and the iPad Pro doesn't interest me at all. Not only are they playing catch up, but they failed to adequately catch up.
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Right? Why is this so difficult.
It's not about "difficulty", it's about control. Approximately 0% of Apple's customers (who don't frequent Hacker News etc) care about that sort of thing.
I would like to short APPL long term, say for 4-5 years. Is there a (simple) mechanism to short a stock long term, that is immune to local price fluctuations?
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I've used the Surface Pro's cover - it's crap. Based on the dome switches (which I have used the previous generation of) the Apple one is already better. So yes, I have a basis for claiming that - one based on the hardware used and direct experience with the competition.
> I've used the Surface Pro's cover - it's crap. Based on the dome switches Nope, scissor-switch. It is mechanical. They used to sell one called the Touch Cover which is likely what you're describing, they don't anymore (discontinued, years ago). > the Apple one is already better. Because, why? You haven't used the Surface Pro 3 (as evidence by your own posts), you haven't used this (as evidence by the fact that nobo…
I know, I was saying that the Apple one was better based on my experience with their Dome Switches vs my experience with the Surface keyboard.
You fail at reading comprehension. Just because you can't read, don't blame me.
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Apple's primary focus is on UX simplicity and Customers couldn't care less how it's implemented behind the scenes, they just want to get stuff done, find the Word document they were working on or see the Photo or Video they just took. The less Customers have to know about how technology works the happier they are, and the more successful Apple is.
The key part of that last statement is have to . You're right that as a matter of routine, having recent documents worked with in an app come up on opening it (and an easy visual list of all the files the app has touched) is a great interaction pattern. That says nothing about whether or not there should be some kind of file browser, or other means for users to become aware and able to interact with files outside an…
Do they want to create an experience that's so simple to use that they're enjoyed by both kids and non-technical grand parents, that's optimized for the most common everyday tasks, e.g browsing the web, shopping, reading news, books, taking photos, finding driving directions, writing emails, etc.
Or do they want to offer a full Desktop OS that's suitable for everyone including devs and power users lets them run server software, multiple windows, anti virus software, network filesystems, development IDE's that enables them to build iOS Apps, etc. For those users they offer OSX on macbooks and iMac's and choose not to complicate their UX on their most popular computing platform - that's quickly becoming most of their Customers primary computing platform.
It's Apple's felicitous focus on simplicity and Customer use-cases that's what's made them the most successful company in the world.