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Re: Is Apple Losing Its Shine After Steve Jobs?

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Post by LaSombra » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 4:13 PM UTC

r00fus wrote: post #56

LaSombra wrote: post #8

Apple adding HDMI and reverting the Apple TV UI, to me, are already signs of that. What's next? Blu-ray?

The Apple TV has had HDMI for years. If you're talking about the new HDMI interface on the retina screen - I think it's a good move - DisplayPort will take years to appear on TVs and this was a serious feature that didn't compete with Apple's other products (unlike Blu-Ray - the entire Apple ecosystem relies on the fact that people are moving away from spinning media)... HDMI is not unlike the addition of the SD card…

I agree with you, but Jobs always said he wouldn't add HDMI to Apple's laptops because of license fees and rigidity of the standard, IIRC. Jobs never said anything against SD or EC.

Though I agree it is useful, I doubt HDMI would make it under Jobs.

Re: Is Apple Losing Its Shine After Steve Jobs?

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Post by incision » Sun, Aug 05, 2012, 1:10 AM UTC

nirvana wrote: post #7

People have been saying that Apple was going down, in my experience, since 1981 with the introduction of the IBM PC. Seriously, in the 1980s it was IBM, Commodore, Tandy, et al. In the 1990s it was Windows. In the past decade every two-bit media player was called an iPod killer. Every phone ripping off the iPhone is called an iPhone killer. Every tablet is called an iPad killer. And of course the myth has been spread…

What's your point?

The same spread of naysayers as well as unbounded optimists can be found touting their opinion of every thing on earth - tech companies, nations, sports team, fashion, whatever.

Re: Is Apple Losing Its Shine After Steve Jobs?

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Post by herval » Fri, Aug 10, 2012, 2:11 AM UTC

wickedchicken wrote: post #12

"After all, during his too-brief, once-in-a-century career, he radically disrupted at least seven industries: personal computing, desktop software, music, mobile phones, publishing, tablet computers, and Hollywood animation" Completely OT, but I thought it was interesting to note that the time difference between the first mobile phone and the first commercially successful smartphone (1973-2007) and the time differenc…

Are you sure e iPhone was the first "commercially successful smartphone"? It's definitely a top-seller, but I remember quite a few commercially successful devices before it... (mostly Treos and Nokias)

Re: Is Apple Losing Its Shine After Steve Jobs?

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Post by herval » Fri, Aug 10, 2012, 2:13 AM UTC

brisance wrote: post #11

Apple is propping up the NASDAQ and S&P500. Apple's iPhone revenue alone generates more than all of Microsoft's various business units combined. I'd say that's a pretty good way of losing its shine.

Remember when people used that exact same phrase refering to Nokia? I do...