I’m Sorry I Criticized You, Apple. You Win

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Post by askafriend » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 3:37 PM UTC

I’m Sorry I Criticized You, Apple. You Win
bloomberg.com

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Post by rayiner » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 3:53 PM UTC

From Cook:

> If you look at our model, if we can convince you to buy an iPhone or an iPad, we'll make a little bit of money. You're not our product.

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Post by ProAm » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 3:56 PM UTC

If only we could praise the actual product (iPhone, Macbook Pro, Mac Pro, iMac, etc...) for being amazing an great and not something they dont do (collect user personal data and sell it). It's great Apple takes privacy seriously (as all companies should) it seems like lately Apple is using that all the cherry for the company versus turning out great innovative products that just work (like they used to). If they did both I could get on the Apple bandwagon, right now this is just PR and marketing.

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Post by kozhevnikov » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 3:56 PM UTC

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16977334

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Post by minimaxir » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 3:56 PM UTC

Note that this was written after the previous-quarter's earnings, before AAPL crossed the $1T market cap.

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Post by Bud » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 3:57 PM UTC

ProAm wrote: post #3

If only we could praise the actual product (iPhone, Macbook Pro, Mac Pro, iMac, etc...) for being amazing an great and not something they dont do (collect user personal data and sell it). It's great Apple takes privacy seriously (as all companies should) it seems like lately Apple is using that all the cherry for the company versus turning out great innovative products that just work (like they used to). If they did…

"Marketing" is the stuff you write about yourself. Praise from a critic is called something else.

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Post by rainbowmverse » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 3:58 PM UTC

Replacing my 3 year old Moto G3 with a 3 year old 6S Plus was one of the best calls I've made in years. It's a weird feeling being current on an older phone, and knowing that it's got at least one more OS update coming. I know it's flagship vs. budget, but the way the Android phone began decaying before it even got here was still inexcusable.

I'd never really used an Apple device before, so it was easy to knock them for this thing or that, but I wouldn't go back after actually seeing how their philosophy works.

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Post by hackujin » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 4:00 PM UTC

Most of Amazon R&D has nothing to do with smart speakers. It's mostly AWS and store related.

Apple doesn't innovate anymore.

Written on a Mid 2014 MBP I loathe to replace.

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Post by brightball » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 4:01 PM UTC

Despite my departure from Mac to happily become a full time Linux user...you'll pry away my iPhone from my cold dead hands.

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Post by the_cat_kittles » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 4:01 PM UTC

my mind is being blown that this is getting upvoted. this article can be summarized as "other companies are making dumb products, so good for apple for not doing that". what? what the what? is this vapid apple propaganda really worth the read? to me the salient trajectory of apple of the last 10 years has been the absolute decline of their software. people who upvoted this article- why? genuinely curious