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Apple Leaves Journalists Jonesing
Hodejo1 writes "Apple traditionally has big product announcements in the early spring, so around February both the mainstream press and the tech blogs began to circulate their favorite rumors (the iWatch, iTV). They also announced the date of the next Apple event, which this year was in March — except it didn't happen. 'Reliable sources' then confirmed it would be in April, then May and then — nothing. In withdrawal and with a notoriously secretive Apple offering no relief the tech journalists started to get cranky. The end result is a rash of petulant stories that insist Apple is desperate for new products, in trouble (with $150 billion dollars in the bank, I should be in such trouble) and in decline. The only ones desperate seem to be editors addicted to traffic-generating Apple announcements. Good news is on the horizon, though, as the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference starts June 10th."
This was in evidence last night, as Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke to the press at the All Things D conference. Cook's statements were mostly the sort of vague, grandiose talk that gets fed to investors on an earnings call, but it's generating article after article because, hey, it's Tim Cook.
If only that was literal and not figurative concerning Apple, their derpy fans, and a few semi truck loads of rat poison.
Take the Red Pill.
Apple used to be a lot more reticent regarding future products. The fact that Mr. Cook is talking/hinting about future products is confirmation that Apple knows its best days are behind it. Mr. Cook is trying, unsuccessfully it appears, to regenerate the buzz around Apple.
iTunes still sucks hard. You can't backup your iTunes to a hard-disk or USB key, you can't have an iPod share music from multiple laptops or desktops, and you can't right click a song in the library and add it to a specific playlist. From a usability standpoint - iTunes STILL sucks...
pay little to no taxes on them
Companies don't pay taxes. They pass them off to the customers. Every time I hear one of you tax hungry douche bags scream about corporate taxes I want to slap you across the face. You raise taxes on companies, the companies pass the buck to the customers. Every time you pull this shit my cost of living goes up. So fuck you and your tax and spend bullshit.