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Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

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Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

#11
- Buy Tesla and spin out project titan to the acquisition. End the distraction and get back to base business

- Quadruple down on e-health. Microsoft gave up. No one should trust amazon, google or fb to do this with any semblance of privacy.

- create “Apple seeds” - companies building tech for the ecosystem but too small at the present to be part of Apple. - imagine ubiquity being an Apple subsidiary like Claris was

Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

#12
I'd be bold and invest in creating a new product that will be of iPhone magnitude. I think if any company could do a google-glass like AR device and make it popular it would be Apple.

But do something. Don't miss NLP/AI because Apple is sorely behind and Siri is fast becoming a joke. In 10 years, Tim Cook may look like Steve Ballmer.

Also, hire more developers. good chat Tim

Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

#13

I'd invest in yourself, Apple. Get your house in order. Fix OSX. Fix or scrap iTunes. Invest in FOSS. Fire your designers... Write a love letter to your developers in the form of fast, upgradable hardware. Write a love letter to gamers in the form of cheap but fast gaming machines. And make a laptop I want to own.

Spot on from what I was thinking.

Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

#14
One word: privacy. They are already trying to create an image that what is on an iphone is yours, that osx does not send endless amounts of telemetry back to the mothership,etc.. But I think that in the next 5 years this image will become a very important differentiator.

In the near future there will be services like the amazon and google voice assistants that rely on you being the product and there will be services that you use in private without relying on them sucking up all your meta data.

Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

#16

- Buy Tesla and spin out project titan to the acquisition. End the distraction and get back to base business - Quadruple down on e-health. Microsoft gave up. No one should trust amazon, google or fb to do this with any semblance of privacy. - create “Apple seeds” - companies building tech for the ecosystem but too small at the present to be part of Apple. - imagine ubiquity being an Apple subsidiary like Claris was

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Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

#17
ARM64 servers.

This one is quite a low hanging fruit.

Apple has the most advanced ARMv8 based core, one that can rival Intel.

And the market is enormous, larger by far than iPad, or Mac.

Of course Apple being Apple they would ship entire boxes, and not just the CPUs.

Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

#18

This is going to sound crazy, but I've been thinking about it for the past few months. A fully digital city: * Imagine a full digital office: all of your files at easy access all around you * Imagine reading Apple News on a balcony looking out at the city * Imagine FaceTime, but being able to walk around a room with your friends * Imagine digital storefronts where you can look at 3D models, then conveniently buy with…

Most of those already exist, they just have poor UX.

My files are all around me, conveniently stored on the //storageserver/share/ drive. File storage UI/UX hasn't changed for 20 years though.

I can stand on my balcony reading news from my phone, looking out at the town isn't so pretty all the time though, and I'm imagine it would be even less pretty if a "digital city" where the residents are present online more than off.

You can walk around on a webcam, it's just not sociable. Do you mean you'd like a drone following you? That would just be distracting for the person you're communicating with.

Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

#20
I’d be very cautious about buying anything big or lousy. Keep buying a series of small and easily integratable technology companies - like Powerbyproxi, purchased late last year. Have 3-5 internal investments on technology and products that nobody has thought of yet. Don’t be afraid to spend too much, but also make sure you can deliver to Apple standards.

If this sounds like business as usual the good. Apple has done very well so far.

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