Apple is a traditional business
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Apple is a traditional business
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#2I probably now fall into this camp as well. I made fun of Apple for years, but while I still hold an emotional and likely completely irrational dislike for their products, if someone were to ask me for a recommendation on a phone today, the only phone I could recommend in good conscience is an iPhone, because it's the only option that takes privacy and security seriously right now.
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#3I wonder if the author likes Apple because Apple has, as he states himself, stopped innovating. This means that Apple's offerings offer stability, which means comfort.
That being said, I agree with the authors sentiment.
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#4I probably now fall into this camp as well. I made fun of Apple for years, but while I still hold an emotional and likely completely irrational dislike for their products, if someone were to ask me for a recommendation on a phone today, the only phone I could recommend in good conscience is an iPhone, because it's the only option that takes privacy and security seriously right now.
Yeah, me too. Used to laugh them, now I use them for the past several years and don't plan on switching to something else for now.
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#5I probably now fall into this camp as well. I made fun of Apple for years, but while I still hold an emotional and likely completely irrational dislike for their products, if someone were to ask me for a recommendation on a phone today, the only phone I could recommend in good conscience is an iPhone, because it's the only option that takes privacy and security seriously right now.
I made the same transition a few years ago. Over time I've supplied my family with iPads to 1) get us on a common chat platform and 2) reduce my tech support requests as much as possible. It has worked well!
I have a Pixel 2 XL and Chromebook for work. There are a few features I wish iOS would take from Android, and a few I wish flowed the other way, but if you buy in to the Google stack, it's hard to beat the Pixel/Chromebook pairing.
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#6Would anyone else like to say sorry?
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#7(Disclosure: I hold AAPL)
Great article but a couple of points:
On Tuesday’s call, there was just one question about innovative offerings, and it concerned health applications, an important driver of Apple Watch sales but not a potential world-beating sensation. Apple appears to be happy to think small and focus on its shareholders, not on pie-in-the-sky ideas, like other tech companies, including industry leaders.
There's a key point I think the author is missing here. If Apple could spend $50 billion on R&D and get a worthwhile return, I think they absolutely would. Their below-par R&D is not from a lack of wanting. It's because they are much more focused. They don't burn cash on new ideas just because they can.
And if I thought Apple's health aspirations were limited to Apple Watch, well, I wouldn't be in the stock.
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#8The author of this opinion piece is praising Apple for its willingness to NOT innovate.
I strongly disagree.
The best solution to privacy concerns is not to stop innovating. Surely there are better solutions.
Apple is leading the way on some consumer privacy issues and I applaud them for that. But surely if Apple halts innovation, it will die as all companies do. Let us hope they are smarter than that.
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#9I probably now fall into this camp as well. I made fun of Apple for years, but while I still hold an emotional and likely completely irrational dislike for their products, if someone were to ask me for a recommendation on a phone today, the only phone I could recommend in good conscience is an iPhone, because it's the only option that takes privacy and security seriously right now.
Yeah. I love their commitment to privacy and security, but I only wish their platform wasn't so locked down. The only reason I went with Android in the first place was so I could side-load personally-built apps. IIRC (I could be wrong), if you want to write and side-load your own personal iOS apps, you have to pay a $99 fee and they deactivate after a week.
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#10Tim Cook made it clear be thinks that no industry should have any regulation, especially his (technology, privacy, consumer hardware, should all have no regulation, he thinks!). He thinks Facebook should have done what it did - no regulation is best regulation he says.
No, Tim Cook is exactly as insane and rogue as the rest of them. He is just doing what he can do make Apple the most money. He is not full of common sense. On the contrary, he's basically insane.
Apple should be regulated. So should every industry. If you're a CEO and you think you shouldn't be regulated, it's clear you're out for #1 and #1 alone.
Apple is not some saviour of the universe. They're just making money, and should be critized, not apologized to!