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I try to consume anything Steve says in these types of video. He might have been a terrible person sometimes but he is the greatest business man ever.
I agree. Whatever he might have been in his personal life, his business sense, and marketing acumen really make it a pleasure to watch the keynotes, and video interviews. Full disclaimer, I was a full-on Apple fanboi from the Nineties to the mid 2010s.
1: https://kotaku.com/with-activisions-influence-growing-blizza...
I do believe this is what's happening at Blizzard at the moment. The company has completely derailed in the last year. [1] And the fan response over several core franchises has been very vocal. Activision is literally ripping the soul out of these guys in order to justify crap like microtransactions; a concept that wasn't very Blizzard-like up until recently. 1: https://kotaku.com/with-activisions-influence-growing-b…
I try to consume anything Steve says in these types of video. He might have been a terrible person sometimes but he is the greatest business man ever.
I think the important question we all need to ask ourselves is whether he was successful because he was an asshole, or whether he was successful despite being an asshole? A lot of people seem to think that 'asshole' is a stepping stone to success. With no evidence to support it either way, I try to live presuming that it was 'despite'. That Apple could have been ever greater had he managed to be assertive and strong…
I’ve seen this a lot. People are assholes when young and then they mature and manage to maintain their effectiveness while inflicting less damage.
This interview in it’s full form lives on Netflix. It’s great from begging to end. "Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview" https://www.netflix.com/title/70243590?s=i&trkid=13752289
Steve Jobs essentially described what was later coined "The Innovator's Dilemma"[1], but in a more general way. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
Actually he didn’t. The Innovators Dilemma is about making a product that “overserves” the market and for companies being afraid to introduce a cheaper “good enough” product. Also the author of the Innovators Dilemma was laughably wrong about the iPhone. https://medium.com/@jakewheadon/why-i-think-clay-christensen...
Isn't that essentially the problem Apple now has with:
* The high-end iPhones going up in price because of more expensive components, but not providing features users would be excited to upgrade for
* Not bringing a mid-range phone to the market
The Touch Bar is the perfect example of marketing people hijacking the product to push sales without helping customers.
Previously as F1-12 Buttons they were overloaded with OS functions such as brightness and audio controls, moving the application Functions to the fn+ combo key.
With the Touch Bar not only are buttons only available when applicable, they also allow for custom inputs such as a range instead of a binary click and their meaning is a lot more explicit with icons and text as opposed to F1-12
I actually think it’s more of a application support problem. If more applications offered better touchbar support I’d be happy about forgetting a series of hot key keystrokes.
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Or Cook could just listen to the legions of formerly loyal iPhone customers who refuse to buy phones that don't have a 3.5mm plug or require one to use Face ID. Or the Mac users who are eternally pissed off that products are too expensive and under-equipped (Mac mini) or "intentionally broken" (Touch Bar on MacBook Pro) or forgotten (is the Mac Pro ever going to get a hardware update -- or the iPod Touch for that mat…
I remeber the same arguments for serial ports, ethernet ports, ADB ports and optical drives. The headphone jack is gone and not coming back to the iPhone.
Just like many former buyers of iPhone will not be coming back. Apple can "innovate" all they want, but customers aren't going to blindly buy it.
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Actually he didn’t. The Innovators Dilemma is about making a product that “overserves” the market and for companies being afraid to introduce a cheaper “good enough” product. Also the author of the Innovators Dilemma was laughably wrong about the iPhone. https://medium.com/@jakewheadon/why-i-think-clay-christensen...
> The Innovators Dilemma is about making a product that “overserves” the market and for companies being afraid to introduce a cheaper “good enough” product. Isn't that essentially the problem Apple now has with: * The high-end iPhones going up in price because of more expensive components, but not providing features users would be excited to upgrade for * Not bringing a mid-range phone to the market
But Apple’s main problem is not the high cost of phones. Apple’s problem are:
* The iPhone is good enough for most people and the upgrade cycle is lengthening. The iPhone 6s from 2015 is faster than midrange new Android phones and is actually still faster than even high end Android Phones in single core performance. No one is going to upgrade to a mid range phone. The iPhone 6s is still getting OS updates and probably will for at least two more years.
* the average selling price of an Android phone in $265 - $315 depending on which source you believe (https://www.cnet.com/news/why-your-iphone-and-android-will-c...). Even the low end iPhone SE was selling for more than that.
The 7 is a midrange Phone by iPhone standards and it is $475. If they dropped the price to $350, it would still be more than the average Android user would be willing to pay.
Yes the $329 iPad is proof that they could make a profitable iPhone that was good enough for most people. They charge an extra $130 for cellular and GPS but the chip couldn’t cost anymore than $30.
* I doubt that Apple could make a phone that was cheap enough to lure Chinese buyers and still be a decent phone.
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Could you provide a source on the last claim? I am generally quite skeptic whenever I hear anything in food science as being represented as well-established. Also, love your username, I grew up there!
Sure. This recent Nature Reviews Genetics paper should describe the basic associations between DNA methylation and glucose levels, as well as point you towards more specific literature: http://173.239.45.5/~joshmitt/data-beta/Horvath-NatureRev201... Bagsvaerd is great. I was living in the Lyngby-Naerum-Birkeroed-Farum area for many years, working in formal methods. I hope to be back soon! Are you still in the area?
I moved to Copenhagen, but I guess that qualifies as the area :P