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Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by Kurtz79 »

GCPCo wrote: post #82
GCPCo wrote: post #81

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Again, you are missing the point. Steve identified the insight (the WHY) behind a product before he introduced the details and design. Cook & team skip all the important foreplay. It makes the products feel less Apple-y, less inspired, and simply, more like everyone else's. I love Apple and will keep buying their phones, the watch, and Macs. But for some of us, the company is also part of the products.

Try pitching your startup to investors in the style of Tim Cook, see how far that gets you. Then you'll get it.

Tim Cook has a company with a decades long track record of successes behind.

A startup, by definition, does not.

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by [deleted] »

Shivetya wrote: post #141
k-mcgrady wrote: post #122

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>> "Take the metro / subway in any big, affluent city these days, and look around youself. What do you see? People whose eyes are glued to their phone screens, oblivious to the people around them, looking for "human warmth" in their virtual companion. That's really not the society I want to live in." I agree with a lot of what you said but this isn't correct. True we all have out faces buried in our devices but befor…

and the difference now is many of those whose faces are buried in their smartphones are likely communicating with someone.If anything people are communicating more.

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Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by mamoriamohit »

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO, he found a lot of variations of Mac getting developed. There was Mac for this, Mac for that, separate Mac for everything. He asked one question to the people developing, “If I had to buy one for my nephew, what would you recommend me?”

He got several options. Then he asked, “If I had to buy one for my nephew, what would you suggest from the ones you just suggested?” He got more fine-tuned answer.

He kept asking this question until a lot of the variations were rejected. Then he went up to the board and drew a 2x2 matrix. On one axis, he wrote, “Personal” and “Professional”. On another axis, he wrote, “Desktop” and “Portable”. He concluded that Apple would make only four variations of Mac, and they would shut down development of every other variation.

Steve always went for 'less'. While current leadership released 2 versions of phones, many versions of the iWatch, Steve always wanted the company to focus of a subset of users.

The simple flaw in present Apple's mindset is 'lack of focus'.

First time ever, I am disappointed by the Apple. And yes, Steve would have fired every 10th person for the glitch in the live stream and the Chinese woman.

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by [deleted] »

Shivetya wrote: post #141
k-mcgrady wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> "Take the metro / subway in any big, affluent city these days, and look around youself. What do you see? People whose eyes are glued to their phone screens, oblivious to the people around them, looking for "human warmth" in their virtual companion. That's really not the society I want to live in." I agree with a lot of what you said but this isn't correct. True we all have out faces buried in our devices but befor…

and the difference now is many of those whose faces are buried in their smartphones are likely communicating with someone.If anything people are communicating more.

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Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by mironathetin »

Shivetya wrote: post #141
k-mcgrady wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> "Take the metro / subway in any big, affluent city these days, and look around youself. What do you see? People whose eyes are glued to their phone screens, oblivious to the people around them, looking for "human warmth" in their virtual companion. That's really not the society I want to live in." I agree with a lot of what you said but this isn't correct. True we all have out faces buried in our devices but befor…

and the difference now is many of those whose faces are buried in their smartphones are likely communicating with someone.If anything people are communicating more.

People are entertaining themselves more!

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by callum85 »

mamoriamohit wrote: post #153

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO, he found a lot of variations of Mac getting developed. There was Mac for this, Mac for that, separate Mac for everything. He asked one question to the people developing, “If I had to buy one for my nephew, what would you recommend me?” He got several options. Then he asked, “If I had to buy one for my nephew, what would you suggest from the ones you just suggested?” He got mo…

The Chinese woman?

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by a_c_s »

mamoriamohit wrote: post #153

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO, he found a lot of variations of Mac getting developed. There was Mac for this, Mac for that, separate Mac for everything. He asked one question to the people developing, “If I had to buy one for my nephew, what would you recommend me?” He got several options. Then he asked, “If I had to buy one for my nephew, what would you suggest from the ones you just suggested?” He got mo…

The iPod is a great counter-example: there have been times Apple was selling 4 different lines of iPod at a time, most of which came in an array of colors. The apple watch basically comes in two sizes with an array of 'colors' (metals) and watchbands.

The difference between that and the history is that each iPod has a clear niche. The problem Apple was having with such a selection of products is that it was hard to figure out which one should be purchased as they didn't have clear, differentiating roles.

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by nly »

LaGrange wrote: post #144
smanuel wrote: post #131

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> Take the metro / subway in any big, affluent city these days, and look around you. What do you see? People whose eyes are glued to their phone screens, oblivious to the persons around them, looking for "human warmth" in their virtual companion. That's really not the society I want to live in. This old photo ( http://imgur.com/WkHHpZ1 ) comes to mind when I read this. Don't blame technology.

And, on the phone I'm likely to be conversing with friends and acquaintances. Beats staring at newspapers. Oh, and my phone has OKCupid and Meetup.com. But the original post goes into creepypasta territory with the human warmth thing. "Jobs: I feel her pulse against mine." It reminds me of http://windows95tips.com/post/34200923828

On the other hand, you're just as likely to be playing Angry Birds.

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by TeMPOraL »

mironathetin wrote: post #155
Shivetya wrote: post #141

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and the difference now is many of those whose faces are buried in their smartphones are likely communicating with someone.If anything people are communicating more.

People are entertaining themselves more!

From a small statistical sample of people I meet every day in public transport when going to and back from work, I can say that almost everyone looking at the phone is either texting or IM-ing (Facebook Messenger/Snapchat), and if not they're usually on Facebook (which I'd still classify as mostly communicating). Usually the only person I with a game on I can spot is myself playing Ingress, because the city centre is full of portals ;).

And in general, looking at my life and the life of my friends, cow-orkers and family, people are communicating hell and a lot more than they used to.

If anything is a problem, it's maybe not lack of but too much human interaction. People don't find time to think for even few minutes anymore, because there's always someone texting you, chatting to you or some interesting post to comment on.

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