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Apple Posts Guided Tours of the Features and Functions of the Apple Watch
MojoKid writes Wondering if Apple Watch is going to be worth the money? Well, that depends on several factors, including price, features, and how eager you are to jump into the smartwatch category at this point. To help tackle the latter two, Apple has posted a handful of videos that demonstrate what an Apple Watch can do. They play out like tutorial videos and are labeled "Guided Tour," followed by what specifically the video is showcasing. Currently, there are four Guided Tour videos available, one of which is a general introduction to Apple Watch labeled "Guided Tour: Welcome." It's the longest video of the bunch at 4 minutes and 45 seconds.
You mean someone who left $0 to charity after his death? Jobs was not a nice man. He was a marketing genius... but definitely not someone who is going to win any ethics awards.
Even the evil robber barons of the 1800s like Carnegie and Frick left auditoriums, arts foundations, hospitals, and many other philanthropic works behind. Jobs? Nada. There are no schools he built, no theaters with his name on them. As far as what people see, they see his boat, and nothing but what he spent on himself.
What he is remembered by, is just rich man assholery. The tale of his new Mercedes every six months so he can park in the handicapped spots at Apple, for example. His scorched earth tactics against Google and Android.
He doesn't have much else other than that, and his marketing prowess for a legacy. Even ol' Bill Gates has a foundation which is doing a lot of good in the world. Bloomberg is doing his thing by getting the guns off the streets in the US and rallying women behind him with MDA and Everytown. Jobs's legacy isn't much compared to those.
Starting with the iPhone 6 Plus, iPhones started to look like other smartphones. Steve Jobs was dead set against larger phones, but apparently Apple risked losing market share to them. (My $100 off-brand Android is 5" diagonally and that seems like an optimal size for my hand.) Jobs was also against smaller tablets, but Apple came out with the iPad Mini.
Apple is an upmarket, trendy/fashion brand. Their products are well-made, but not necessarily the best. Their AirPort Extreme routers lack a lot features comparable routers carry by default (bandwidth management, built-in VPN server, a web interface, and other stuff). Until recently, iPhone users couldn't swipe through a virtual keyboard to write text, they had to tap each character individually (Android's had that for a bit longer). When I had an iPhone 4s, I had to use a file manager application to transfer files to or from the iPhone without using iTunes. Their new MacBook will have only a single USB-C port: it's slim and makes everything smaller, but requires more expensive adapters. Buying Apple is like buying a luxury car that requires special parts and trained mechanics.
Microsoft tries to sell expensive products, but they usually fail and end up hitting the low- or mid-tier where the bulk of their users lie. Hell, thanks to competition from Google, they may be introducing some $150 Windows notebooks this summer (using - I hope - x86 Rockchip CPUs licensed from Intel). It's a great time to be a Windows user (the Windows 8 interface not withstanding).
Apple's been great at keeping their margins high. They sold expensive products throughout the 80s and 90s. Only now is their stuff popular enough to make them filthy rich (in part thanks to the ludicrous cell phone contracts present in the United States).