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Re: Apple Business

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Post by bigyabai »

acdha wrote: post #46
unshavedyak wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly seems like a supportive argument. Yea, your amendment clearly shows Apple isn't always right/late, but Vision Pro is an example of them being early and how far they miss when they're early hah. (I don't have a side in this discussion)

And I’d add that like AI, there was clearly a conflict inside Apple between people who wanted to be in the game and the people who correctly recognized that it wasn’t yet where most consumers wanted.

Like AI, the Vision Pro would have been a better product if Apple told the detractors to shut up and ship out. NPUs and AR are not going to sway consumers or compete for market share.

Nevermind the godawful Liquid Glass UX they cooked up and imposed on everyone else...

Re: Apple Business

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Post by acdha »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #37
bitpush wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vision Pro.

Vision Pro failed Apple fails at every novel thing they try and crushes it at every thing they copy

That doesn’t fit: Apple’s been experimenting with VR since the 90s and Vision Pro was hardly novel–well executed, but not novel. I think it’s more complex where you have to think about the products executives and Wall Street analysts want to exist providing pressure against the “is it good enough to buy?” response.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by Barbing »

AlotOfReading wrote: post #24

I occasionally trial complete switches to Apple services to see if they're viable as Google alternatives. This weekend was Apple maps and it's finally met my standard of "usable", though not quite "good". One of the places it beat Google maps was the lack of integrated advertising places, which have enshittified the latter. I'm glad Apple announced their own plans to enshittify before I got my hopes up.

Such a huge bummer.

Hey, Big Ad Tech, come try enshitify my Rand McNally.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by jwlake »

A non-terrible MDM that actually works would be really nice. The rest I doubt they get much traction on. Gmail is too easy, Google docs and sheets if you don't need Microsoft is also way better than Apple's free apps.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by valzam »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #11
dehrmann wrote: post #5

Apple's really late to this.

Apple is “late” to everything which is why it’s the leader Being early is the same as being wrong and there’s no business value in costly exploration of new territory at least in the 21st century Name me a single company that is still in business and dominating a market based on being first to market with a new product.

Ok but "Business Email" wasn't exactly invented yesterday...

Re: Apple Business

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Post by radicaldreamer »

martibravo wrote: post #30
selectively wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft is a giant enterprise software company that also publishes Candy Crush and Call of Duty. Intune and Windows are 'nice to have' but are not the business-business. The business is 365 (which runs on Macs and is worlds better than Apple's office suite + Apple's hosted email is god awful) and Azure.

A lot of new businesses are going the Notion/Google Drive route for docs, tables and knowledge, plus Canva for presentations and more visual work. It's not the majority, but the market is there.

That might be true for tech startups, but many businesses (even "new" ones) go with Microsoft 365 as a default, especially outside of the west coast or NYC.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by embedding-shape »

monegator wrote: post #29

Will we be able to change our company details? A couple of years ago we changed the business name, so let's change it in the account for billing and such. Not possible. Ok, let's ask support what to do: the only thing we can do is create a new account, get the approval, etc. and then ask for a migration that may or may not be approved and may or may not end succesfully. In the end we keep receiving the bills in the o…

I guess ultimately it's easier and works better than when you move country and would like to update the country for PSN (PlayStation Network). Sony's advice? Close the old account and open a new one with the correct country, then buy the same stuff again.
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