What People Who Demand Innovations from Apple Don't Get
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What People Who Demand Innovations from Apple Don't Get
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#2I'm really finding it difficult to follow the author's logic here.
He starts off with the title
"What Tim Cook's Apple has in common with Porsche's Cayenne?",
but then the only comment he makes regarding porche is ..
"Just think what Porsche’s hardcore users said when they first saw Porsche Cayenne. “Betrayal!”, “It’s not a Porsche!”. And yet it made a killing when it comes to sales. Think Mercedes A Class, BMW 1…"
The rest of the article goes on in the same vein with quotes here and there, peace time/wartime something or other but essentially what he's saying is..
What people who demand innovations from Apple don't get is they are resting on their laurels? Taking it easy and raking profits? Riding on the coattails of their previous innovations. We get that. It's obvious and it's a deadend. It happened to Cannon, Sony, Nintendo, Intel etc etc. That's why people who get it want Apple to innovate.
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#3As a shareholder, I have to admit I've lost a little confidence in Tim Cook. He's a fantastic operations guy, but lacks a founder's vision, drive and risk-taking mentality. I also think companies, unlike governments, are best run by dictators. With Tim, it seems like decisions are community (in terms of employee) driven instead of coming from his vision.
With that said, I'm still a huge Apple fan boy. The stock's fundamentals are off the charts, look at P/E, solid dividend, and huge piles of cash on hand. Not sold on the 1 billion investment in Chinese ride-sharing service Didi Chuxing (I can't connect the dots right now).
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#4A couple lines really bother me in this piece:
"... it matters to you whether your phone has 64 or 128 GB of RAM"
Holy Cow! I want that phone! I've only got 8 GB of RAM on my desktop.
"The first iPhone had apps..."
The only apps the original iPhone had were the kind you could get on any feature phone: weather, stocks, etc... It wasn't until later that the app store opened and really changed things.
As a whole, the article seems incredibly uninformed about technology. I would give the author a pass, but their conclusion doesn't seem to agree with history either. When the iPhone and iPad were released they were incredibly expensive and dismissed as toys for geeks. Less than a decade later those two devices have revolutionized technology and given Apple a dominant position. Apple has already crossed the chasm. Not with MacBooks, but with iPhones.
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#5DON'T F*CKING HIJACK SCROLLING.
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#6I'm really finding it difficult to follow the author's logic here. He starts off with the title "What Tim Cook's Apple has in common with Porsche's Cayenne?", but then the only comment he makes regarding porche is .. "Just think what Porsche’s hardcore users said when they first saw Porsche Cayenne. “Betrayal!”, “It’s not a Porsche!”. And yet it made a killing when it comes to sales. Think Mercedes A Class, BMW 1…" T…
Don't forget more relevantly, RIM who had the smartphone market completely locked up but couldn't get comfortable with a large, keyboardless, touchscreen device that was graphically oriented despite Microsoft having created these devices before the iPhone explosion. The question is are the innovations coming out of non-Apple mobile computing on par with the touchscreen/gui revolution of the late 2000s. Water Resistant? Wireless Charging? Wearables? Voice Control? None seem likely to supplant the basic form factor.
After all, post 1995, there wasn't a major innovation in the desktop or mobile pc market that took over. Flat Panel monitors maybe. Desktops and Laptops are simply faster and possibly smaller versions of what we had then.
The point I'm making is that tech innovation is going to shif t to something outside handheld. Cloud, IOT, VR/AR, AI, Wearables, Voice are leading contenders right now and Apple is certainly thinking about all of them.
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#7As a shareholder, I have to admit I've lost a little confidence in Tim Cook. He's a fantastic operations guy, but lacks a founder's vision, drive and risk-taking mentality. I also think companies, unlike governments, are best run by dictators. With Tim, it seems like decisions are community (in terms of employee) driven instead of coming from his vision. With that said, I'm still a huge Apple fan boy. The stock's fun…
Dictators can run governments the best. too. The problem is they can be also the worst. And the whole inheritance thing.
Apple's problem right now is not so much Cook's objective qualities, but perception. And perception leads to positive feedback loops and self fulfilling prophecies.
If the market sees Apple as company in trouble, some part of it will also start seeing themselves that way. And the company will start behaving appropriately.
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#8A couple lines really bother me in this piece: "... it matters to you whether your phone has 64 or 128 GB of RAM" Holy Cow! I want that phone! I've only got 8 GB of RAM on my desktop. "The first iPhone had apps..." The only apps the original iPhone had were the kind you could get on any feature phone: weather, stocks, etc... It wasn't until later that the app store opened and really changed things. As a whole, the ar…
Yeah, even if you argue that the sideloaded app stores and whatnot that you could put on a jailbroken iPod Touch (remember those?) and 1st gen iPhones existed for a little before the official App Store, it was hardly the experience people think of today when talking about apps.
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#9As a shareholder, I have to admit I've lost a little confidence in Tim Cook. He's a fantastic operations guy, but lacks a founder's vision, drive and risk-taking mentality. I also think companies, unlike governments, are best run by dictators. With Tim, it seems like decisions are community (in terms of employee) driven instead of coming from his vision. With that said, I'm still a huge Apple fan boy. The stock's fun…
Dictators can run governments the best. too. The problem is they can be also the worst. And the whole inheritance thing. Apple's problem right now is not so much Cook's objective qualities, but perception. And perception leads to positive feedback loops and self fulfilling prophecies. If the market sees Apple as company in trouble, some part of it will also start seeing themselves that way. And the company will start…
Perception has been a huge part to Apple's success. Steve could bend perception by force of will. Watching his old keynotes, the reality he creates around the products becomes a part of them. Real or not. An Ive video just doesn't replace that, and Cook can't even approach it.
Re: What People Who Demand Innovations from Apple Don't Get
#10As a shareholder, I have to admit I've lost a little confidence in Tim Cook. He's a fantastic operations guy, but lacks a founder's vision, drive and risk-taking mentality. I also think companies, unlike governments, are best run by dictators. With Tim, it seems like decisions are community (in terms of employee) driven instead of coming from his vision. With that said, I'm still a huge Apple fan boy. The stock's fun…
>He's a fantastic operations guy, but lacks a founder's vision, drive and risk-taking mentality.
If there's one thing I've learned in my corporate serfdom is that primadonnas can't handle other primadonnas. Do you think Steve Jobs would be able to work with another Steve Jobs? Jobs picked Cook because Cook wasn't Jobs, so Jobs was able to tolerate him. The problem is a company like Apple probably needs a Jobs-like character.
I see this all the time in the workplace. The difficult higher-ups always hire fairly milquetoast personalities they can easily control but when they leave, we now have a department of largely unmotivated 'yes men,' unable to do anything but take orders.