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Apple Is Outdated, Says Chinese Conglomerate LeEco CEO (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader shares an article on CNBC: Apple is "outdated" and losing momentum in China, billionaire entrepreneur Jia Yueting told CNBC in his first international television interview. "Apple only has individual apps. This was the right choice during the first generation of mobile net, when CPUs [central processing units] and the mobile network speeds were not fast enough," Jia said. "However now we're moving into the next era of mobile internet, these problems no longer exist. Moreover, having separate apps just means great obstacles in the user experience. We hope to break down these obstacles. One of the most important reasons [for slowing sales] is that Apple's innovation has become extremely slow," he said. "For example, a month ago Apple launched the iPhone SE. From an industry insider's perspective, this is a product with a very low level of technology... We think this is something they just shouldn't have done. [...] The Watch hasn't cut it. And they're looking at content on the services side, on the iTunes side. We'll see how that works out. But definitely they need something to drive the next leg of growth." In some other Apple news, the company is expected to announce its first quarterly year-over-year revenue decline since 2003 later today.
What is this clown babbling about?
The way some of these "billionaire entrepreneurs" talk really makes me think that they got to where they are with pure luck and no knowledge or skill in the area they are involved in...
When sales settle down, dividends come into play.
You can't grow at 25% per year for a decade, from Apple's existing point or it will have sales 10 times what it has today which would be over $5 Trillion market cap.
Let me translate what he just said.
"The old model includes local native apps in which freedom of security of data at the device level is a threat to the ruling class and totalitarian regimes; specifically in China. The new way is centralized back-end app that are dynamically updated, monitored, and content is controlled. Imagine having a back-end proactive spellcheck that removes all references to 'Tiananmen square'. It's a value-added bonus of conveniences that keeps citizens from breaking the law. This is how we can keep a more harmonious society with government control content through advanced technological paradigms.
Congratulations, you got to drink from the Firehose. The Red Headline means the story hasn't made it to the front page except for subscribers. At least, that's what it used to mean. I think if you have a high karma level select future stories will be visible with the red headline as well (speculation only since I too occasionally see the red headlines but have never subscribed).
I had quite a hard time following why Apple is outdated, because of individual apps. Did he find a way to SECURELY have apps communicate with each other, without allowing rogue apps to mess with their phone?
Not to sound like an Apple Fan Boy but Apple had a rather good (Not Perfect) security record with the iPhone and Apps. But there hasn't been too many wide scale problems much like how we have with PC's. A big part of this is the isolated infrastructure of the apps.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Apple has many businesses still growing - if you thought of any one product Apple makes a business, it would generally be growing more than most companies around.
The AppleWatch for example, was estimated to have sold more than twice the units of the first iPhone - and sales in the first twelve months brought in $1.5 billion more than Rolex.
Apple's music and video sales are constantly growing. Apple Mac sales still see a healthy growth every quarter. Apple's services growth is greater than Google at this point, and because services are tied to hardware which Apple has so much of in the field, there's no reason to think service growth will slow.
Even the iPhone is still growing more than not.
Sometimes what the "law of large numbers" means is that if you are large enough, you win.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Mr. Yueting isn't wrong when he says "having separate apps just means great obstacles in the user experience" or when he writes says that "CPUs and the mobile network speeds" a sufficient for integrated systems. however, he is wrong when he implied that this design was only good for "the first generation of mobile net" because he has not mentioned perhaps the largest and most fundamental issue with third party software: security. right now, smartphone security is still arguably an oxymoron and unless you rectify the situation, you are going to have a fully integrated system of fully compromised software.
when it comes to "smart" technologies, currently, the only winning move is not to play.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Just like MS, Apple stole their entire UI idea from Palo Alto.
Nope. They PAID for that, then took it FAR beyond what Xerox PARC even ENVISIONED.
They have stolen countless software app ideas over the years from devs.
And if you have written more than 10 lines of code in your life, so have you, me, and EVERY other Developer. Next!
Ipod. Stolen. Then refined with a better interface.
So NOT "Stolen". Refined. So, as another Poster said, Porsche "stole" the CAR from "Ford", right?
Ipad. Stolen. Then reality distortion field'ed into being 'revolutionary'.
Stolen? From WHAT, exactly??? Those POS "Slabs" that ran Windows for about 45 minutes and weight 10 pounds? See Porsche, above.
Iphoney. Stolen. Then reality distortion field'ed into being 'revolutionary'.
Again, Really? Who STOLE from WHO, again?
MB Air. Stolen. Then reality distortion field'ed into being 'revolutionary'.
Stolen? Again, from WHO? If you count "Netbooks" as "Prior Art" for the MBA, you might as well count the horse and buggy "prior art" for the Tesla.
Apple TC. Stolen. Then reality distortion field'ed into being 'revolutionary'.
TC? Time Capsule? How does that even make the list? It is nothing more than an obvious marriage of a WiFi Router and a Hard Drive for Time Machine Backups of several machines in the same household. But it isn't "Stolen".
Apple Watch. Stolen. Then they tried but failed to make it into being 'revolutionary'.
Everybody and his dog was more or less simultaneously working on Smart Watches. Apple's is cooler than most, because of the infrastructure it shares. But I don't think that anyone particularly "Stole" stuff from anyone else. There are only so many ways to do a SmartWatch. That's why they are ALL so similar. But seriously, STOLE???