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Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade (go.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple has announced its first-ever decline in revenue in the past 13 years as its iPhone sales have slowed down. Apple posted quarterly revenue of $50.6 billion and quarterly net income of $10.5 billion. Last year, the company posted revenue of $58 billion and net income of $13.6 billion. The reason Apple has been so successful is because of the iPhone, which was first released in 2007. What goes up must come down -- and we're starting to see that now. The success of the iPhone is starting plateau and ultimately decrease now that consumers are finding less of a reason to upgrade to the latest and greatest smartphone. Apple CEO Tim Cook pointed to weakening currencies worldwide as one of the obstacles the company would face as iPhone sales were up less than 1 percent year-over-year last quarter. Gene Munster, managing director and senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray, told ABC News, "This has been anticipated for three months now. The reason is nothing [that] is wrong with the iPhone." Munster said this is not worrisome to Apple and that iPhone sales will likely increase by the end of the year when the next iPhone(s) is released.
A couple years ago, while taking my asian girlfriend shopping at the local mall, I had to take a piss. As I entered the john, Steve Jobs -- the messiah himself -- came out of one of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was busy and in any case I was sure the security guards wouldn't even let me shake his hand.
As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy ass. I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd -- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as his cock -- or at least as I imagined it!
I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a liberal thinker and had been an Apple customer since 1984. Of course I'd had fantasies of meeting Jobs, sucking his cock and balls, not to mention sucking his asshole clean, but I never imagined I would have the chance. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of Steve Jobs, the chosen one.
Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract?
I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it smelled.
I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big half nigger cock, beating my meat like a madman, and thrusting my pink iPod Shuffle into my ass. I wanted to completely engulf it and bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was that Steve Jobs wasn't there to see my loyalty and wash it down with his piss.
I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with the rich bitterness of shit. It's even better than reading an Apple press release!
Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my handkerchief, and stashed them in my briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom.
I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours. I must have had six orgasms in the process.
I often think of Steve Jobs dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful Apple customer.
Apple is living on borrowed time. They need to come out with something disruptive, but all they can do is incremental upgrades.
I just bought a new Samsung Galaxy s7 (Unlocked & GSM)
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"The success of the iPhone is starting plateau and ultimately decrease now that consumers are finding less of a reason to upgrade to the latest and greatest smartphone."
That's not even a sentence!
Try it this way:
The success of the iPhone is starting to plateau and will ultimately decrease now that consumers are finding fewer reasons to upgrade to the latest and greatest smartphone.
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Stock buybacks are a red flag for me, indicating that the company may be out of investment ideas.
Two words: Soldered RAM.
For me that's more than enough.
Where the Apple under Jobs succeeded was going into relatively nascant markets (MP3 players, cellphones, tablets), and leapfrogging the pioneers in the field.
The Apple under Cook has made mistakes by trying to enter in markets where people have been there for centuries (watchmakers.)
There are still a lot of markets Apple can take, which the way have been paid for them:
1: Car audio. Even the crackheads won't bust out a car stereo these days. Apple making an actual 1-2 DIN audio head would score big, as car makers would buy it. Car makers would actually be faced with a choice, just like existing CarPlay. Buy Apple's product, or go bankrupt and be replaced by companies that have.
2: NAS hardware. Add some features and apps to the Time Capsule, and people would buy that thing in droves, essentially acting as a home server.
3: Security in general. Make a new type of mechanical, or electro-mechanical key lock like the Medeco CLIQ, and now have tens to hundreds of millions of sales as people and businesses buy better security. The humble deadbolt can easily be improved and made far more secure.
4: Go into the enterprise. Apple has name recognition, so if they made an enterprise desktop Mac, they would sell millions, at Mac prices. Especially with the ability to physically disable the camera/mic, and better AD GPOs.
5: Make a security IoT infrastructure. Special chip on iPhone can run a secure app protocol over Bluetooth (which has encryption in itself), so people can open a safe with just a press of a button on the home button. IoT needs security, and here is where Apple can champion and profit.
6: Sell iOS technologies as an embedded platform, as well as their custom ARM SoC.
7: Get with Intel and VMWare, make an XServe model which has ESXi (upgradable of course) in firmware. Name recognition alone will get these in the door, and Apple was, for a few years, the second biggest storage vendor out there. Maybe it might be profitable to get back in there.
Apple has lost it's advantage; Android phones are selling like hot cakes, Apple's use of proprietary connectors and technologies has alienated many current and potential customers. Apple smart phones and tablets are no longer cutting edge and novel. They created a bubble and now it is popping.
abcnews.com, wsj.com and piperjafery.com? Seriously these twit boxes are only based on financials and whether they are personally making book on the swing they themselves promote. The WSJ is a personal disappointment as I had a 1yr subscription to the paper version. I dropped it because there wasn't a single accurate article (with its funny pin point pictures) about our industries of software and computer technology. Not one. I seriously doubt if they have gotten any better.
This is nerd news. Let's use sources that at least respect us. We care about the technology. Give me more detail about the A9X and its follow on.
Apple buys Compaq.
Or they're sitting on such a huge pile of cash that any investing in anything that would eat a substantial portion of it would fundamentally change their business or attract anti-trust problems
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I'm amazed at how many people are totally in love with Apple and are incapable of seeing things objectively.
Well, in your post you pretty much demonstrated that this limitation is not confined to those folks living in the Apple universe.
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>"The success of the iPhone is starting plateau and ultimately decrease now that consumers are finding less of a reason to upgrade to the latest and greatest smartphone"
And because consumers are also finding that there is often less of a reason to buy an iphone when compared to other high-end smartphones.
I remember those "1984" commercials. I would never want Apple to become a massive corporate bandit, especially one that sells to the dead end of Western Civilization.
I think not. Earnings were well below analysts' expectations. Guidance for future earnings was worse than that. Not news for nerds. Propaganda for morons.
He once inserted random mutations into his code, just so he could have the experience of debugging.
“Our team executed extremely well in the face of strong macroeconomic headwinds,” Apple CEO Tim Cook, said.
Stock price is down $6 in early after close trading. I'd hate to see what the result would have been if the team had average performance.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
I don't think that new markets will help them now.
We're finally seeing what a lot of us have been waiting a really long time for: the so-called "Web 2.0" bubble to burst.
This is the bubble that began around 2006. It started with the astronomical (and unjustifiable) hype that built up around Ruby and Ruby on Rails, hence the name "Web 2.0". This hype regarding web sites eventually resulted in what we call social media. Social media, in turn, helped popularize smart phones and tablets. Smart phones and tablets helped enable the so-called "sharing economy".
During this time we saw a repeat of the dot-com bubble. We saw extreme valuations, even for companies that were losing a shitload of money with no hope of profit.
Lately, we've seen it all come crashing down. Apple is merely the latest casualty of this bubble's burst and unraveling.
We first saw the hype around Ruby and Ruby on Rails die off, when people started to realize that it was actually kind of shitty and unpleasant to use, not to mention slow and bloated.
Then we saw the hype around social media die off, when people started to realize that it was invasive, and just another way to get advertised to.
Now we're seeing the smart phones and tablets hype die off, resulting in these poor earnings for Apple.
Soon we will see the "sharing economy" companies start to suffer, too, as the hype around their services dies out.
The important thing to keep in mind is that nothing has come after the "sharing economy". AI (including self-driving cars) has been a bust so far, like it has been for decades now. Virtual realty isn't moving very fast, either. Drones are still just toys.
There's nowhere to go from here on any reasonable timeline. Investors are starting to realize this, and that's why money is flowing out of San Francisco and its area. The innovation there has been squeezed dry.
The Web 2.0 bubble is finally bursting.
Just as the prophecies foretold. My faith in random tech pundits is renewed.
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I know I will catch hell for this, but I will say it anyway. The problem is that Tim Cook is by far more interested than being a gay/liberal activist, than being a CEO of an innovative company. If you look at the various stories about him and apple over the last few years, you will see it is alway about the politics, not making "insanely great" doodads.
Many on Slashdot give him a pass, because you like the causes he supports. At the same time, you bemoan the fact that the new iMac mini was actually worse than the old one, computers are not updated nearly enough, computers are not powerful enough for Oculus Rift, or even many games, features such as ram expansion have been downgraded, the new GUI is a backwards step, programs like pages and iMovie are stagnant, programs like Aperture have been cancelled, the iwatch was just plain silly, and the iPhone changes are just plain underwhelming. All this can be now said about a company that a decade ago, saw a world filled with CD players, and figured out how to bring your entire music collection with you at once....all with a slick interface.
Apple used to be about being transformative. Now it is just about being transgendered. I miss insanely great.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
Remember when they almost owned music production, graphic arts and video editing? Neither do Apple!
From loyal pro users to overpriced bling and Darth Vaders butt-plug for the "high end" model. A machine that would commonly (audio / visual production installs) be rack mounted in a different room to the operator.
EOM
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
It's rather convenient they were in a controversy over phone security this year wasn't it? It certainly gives them a new selling point for declining sales. Be ready for obnoxious ads in September about how the new iPhone 7 is unbreakable (which it won't be). As soon as I read the actual court order involved in that San Bernandino case, juxtaposed with the hyperbole in the media, I knew this was just another marketing campaign from a company that knows no shame. Now we have the confirmed motive.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Apple is one giant bubble that's starting to pop. I'm amazed at how many people are totally in love with Apple and are incapable of seeing things objectively. It's like investment decisions are all being made by Apple fanbois.
I was an Apple fanboy as a kid but I have to say in the past few years their interface is getting absolutely awful.
Sure it looks nice, but they've gone so far towards simplicity it's becoming unusable if you ever stray the tiniest bit off their standard use-case.
On my Android I have a button to bring up a configuration screen for any application, for iOS it's a mystery for each app.
My mother's iPad stopped ringing on incoming calls. Why? I haven't the foggiest idea.
I wanted to print to file from her iPad, it turned out to be hidden in some unlabelled button in an unlabelled expander.
The OS X seems to have gone to a model of zero feedback.
My laptop bugged me to upgrade to El Capitan, I clicked download, the download button greyed out, and I never got another piece of feedback. I don't know if it's downloading, downloaded, or simply stuck. I'm guessing it failed because the same thing happened a few months earlier. Same with importing photos from Mail to iPhoto, click to import, and no feedback, no idea if they imported or not, or to where.
I don't know what's gotten into their coolaid but I wouldn't consider them to be remotely user friendly. My Linux boxes much more usable and easy to troubleshoot when there is a problem.
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I have a very specific example myself: after hanging out a bit on /r/steam on reddit, I have discovered there are a surprising number of people who can't seem to understand why Valve won't make a Windows Phone version of the Steam mobile authenticator. A quick search of mobile market share should enlighten anyone.
"FIRST-EVER decline in revenue IN THE PAST 13 YEARS"
- Indicative of a financially illiterate person who cannot be trusted to make objective commentary
Can we start saying "Beleaguered Apple" again, like back in the '90s? That was so much fun!
Tim Cook needs to step down.
He's just Meg Whitman with a penis.
They are in love with Apple the same way some people in the past were in love with tulip bulbs.
Fuck yeah!
we've hit "peak smartphone".
The people who want one, have one. The only thing that is going to drive smart phone sales now is occasional replacement and hardware upgrades.
Apple's profits will drop a bit and then level off at a sustainable level. Expecting to maintain continual growth in a finite market is just not possible.
Most of the stuff people use their computers or phones for is already browser based or soon will be. The slight UI differences between accessing browsers via iOS, OS X, Windows, Linux or Android isn't worth paying a premium for. When it comes to hardware specs Apple has lost the lead.
In the long term OSS seems to win out and I don't have much faith in Apples closed ecosystem. It's too expensive in the long term. In the short term you win.
>>My Linux boxes much more usable and easy to troubleshoot when there is a problem.
you're missing the point.... for most users, not having the problem in the first place is worth far more than "ease of debugging" after the problem has happened. I run Linux on my own machines, and force it on my teenagers, but never in a million years would I try to pass it off on my elderly parents.
Apple's entire selling point is that it's fashionable. Poor people can't afford them, and there's a vestigial status attached to them once appropriately awarded for being a better device. The problem is, the iPhone is neither better, nor cool anymore. They did extraordinarily well being "the" phone for almost a decade. Nightclubs are lucky to get 5 years. They even recycled old Samsung ideas like the large screen, much to the desperately-ignored hypocrisy of their rabid fans that spent years decrying "I don't need a big phone, I can use mine with one hand!". It was truly masterful, but all fashion trends come to an end. Apple does not know how to compete without the "cool" advantage, and they no longer have a visionary, with the will to match, at the helm. So expect this to be the beginning of a trend downwards.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
>>My Linux boxes much more usable and easy to troubleshoot when there is a problem.
you're missing the point.... for most users, not having the problem in the first place is worth far more than "ease of debugging" after the problem has happened. I run Linux on my own machines, and force it on my teenagers, but never in a million years would I try to pass it off on my elderly parents.
They'd probably do the same as my elderly mother does with Apple, she either doesn't do what she wants to do or finds some workaround until I show up and try to fix it.
The use-cases of an elderly parent aren't that complicated, read and send email, play videos from the email, browse the web, upload photos, print things, video chat.
Once you get things configured it's all point and click, they don't actually need a command line.
But if things do go wrong it's really easy for me to ssh in and figure out what's going on because the Linux ecosystem is actually designed to anticipate errors, as opposed to my Mac where I can't tell the difference between an error and stupid interface design.
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The iPad is a tablet.
The Surface is a computer.
Not sure how they are really in competition really.
They function differently.
The kids use the iPad every day and get great use out of it.
Not sure I could say the same if they had a Surface.
It's about the fact that apple no longer has the right to command a premium price for hardware that is underpowered. There are lots and lots of other players in the market now, and they have no problems undercutting apple at every turn. Apple is no longer cutting edge anything, and people are beginning to realize it.
I wonder if apple is beginning to sweat now that they're being shown just how important jobs was to the apple hype machine. I predict a long string of failures ahead of apple. The won't go down fast, but they will go down hard.
Cruz looks just like Senator Joseph McCarthy. And that says it all.
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Just look at the Mac compare page, it's like John Sculley in the early 90s. What market segment does the Air serve awkwardly between the plain and Pro models?
Not to mention the iPad Pro has, arguably, a 'better' screen than any Macbook, for those who prefer vertical pixels.
That's because they're idiots like the rest of the family.
Apple's earnings came with the line: " The company currently holds $233 billion in cash and marketable securities ".
Holy hell, that's a stupid amount of cash in hand to have at your disposal.
What's Tesla worth right now?
I'd love to see Musk team up with Cook as he's the closest living thing to Jobs.
Sure there's a lot of Tesla lovers who hate Apple but I'll bet there's a shit load more Apple fans who'd buy a Tesla if it had an Apple on it's ass.
It's not just the cars, I love Tesla's entry into the home power market with their wall mounted batteries.
If you want disruption you need to get into some new markets. 10 years ago Apple didn't sell phones.
Computing devices have almost reached commodity stagnation. The App market has been and gone.
There's so much going on in power, renewables and the changing global weather patterns.
Believe in global warming or not this area provides a huge marketing opportunity.
Why are they different? Because you gave them different labels?
>>My Linux boxes much more usable and easy to troubleshoot when there is a problem.
you're missing the point.... for most users, not having the problem in the first place is worth far more than "ease of debugging" after the problem has happened. I run Linux on my own machines, and force it on my teenagers, but never in a million years would I try to pass it off on my elderly parents.
I think that is the problem now though. Now that Apple is trying to do more than a tightly defined niche their stuff doesn't "just work" anymore and when it fails (which is more and more frequent) it is about the equivalent to the old windows 95 days of "an error has occurred" and sometimes not even that much information. I just gave up on my wifes ipad trying to connect to a wifi hotspot which all our laptops (windows and macs) all happily use, yet the ipad just silently fails to connect to it with no reason, no error, no additional information, it is infuriating.
Bubble pop in 3... 2...
bring in Fassbender. He can play Jobs convincingly /lol...
"But if things do go wrong it's really easy for me to ssh in and figure out what's going on because the Linux ecosystem is actually designed to anticipate errors, as opposed to my Mac where I can't tell the difference between an error and stupid interface design."
Care to elaborate? From a SSHing in and fixing the issue standpoint I am not seeing any difference that you would encounter between a Darwin system and Linux distro that would fall into "regular userland issue".
"But if things do go wrong it's really easy for me to ssh in and figure out what's going on because the Linux ecosystem is actually designed to anticipate errors, as opposed to my Mac where I can't tell the difference between an error and stupid interface design."
Care to elaborate? From a SSHing in and fixing the issue standpoint I am not seeing any difference that you would encounter between a Darwin system and Linux distro that would fall into "regular userland issue".
From an application perspective Linux apps are generally designed with command line users in mind. You're a lot more likely to find human readable configuration files, online resources that explain how to fix things in the configs, a rich toolkit pre-installed, and if there's something extra you need there's a ton of troubleshooting apps trivially installable with yum or apt.
Sure there's fink and other package repositories for Apple but they're much sparser, not as well maintained, tend to conflict with eachother, and require a bunch hoops to install XCode and such. Basically Linux makes it way easier for me toubleshoot.
Oh, and on the topic of usability I just took another look at the App Store and found the El Capitan screen where I clicked a button that said "Download" and got no feedback, just some busy window indication forever.
Now there's a pretty picture of some mountains and the words "OS X El Capitan A refined experience... yadda yadda".
At the side there's a box that says "Downloaded".
Yay!! I did downloaded it! Now what next???
Hmm, underneath the pretty picture there's big letters "No Updates Available".
Ok, so I know I downloaded it... but how do I install it? There's no install button, there's no any button, just "Downloaded" and "No Updates", maybe that means it was installed? Do I have to go somewhere else to install?
Wait! I see some small text! It's a link! "Learn more"! Yay! Information!!
A new page comes up! And there's a button! There's only one button, this is Apple after all. But I can click it!
And the text on this wonderful button says.....
Download...
F U Apple and your El Capitan download mind games!!!!.
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Time for the 2.0 mess to dissolve ...
I bought a 6S as I love photography and it was a nice upgrade for my 4S finally. The fucking thing couldn't play music and take a photo which is what I do I walk an hour a day listening to music and taking photos. This s a basic fucking design concept every other iPhone had.
It took phone calls to Apple, Genius Bar visits etc all to get different info eventually being to,d it's a big that will be fixed. It still hasn't been fixed. I bought the 6 which in Australia with currency movements was actually about $500 cheaper and actually fucking works.
I emailed Tim Cook but they obviously don't take issues like this seriously. Steve Jobs would have fucking destroyed someone's life for this if we was alive. That's what made Apple products so damn good.
Also don't get me started on the fetish of ever thin phones. Give me a battery that lasts 12 hours please! Fuck me I have to charge it hair way through or I'm in low power mode at 20% and I've set as many things as I can to low power use as I can without making the phone a dumb phone.
Come on Tim Cook wake up and sort your quality and value offering.
Also 16GB? Fuck you. Move to 32GB at that price don't insult us consumers.
Agreed. Apple's M.O. seems to be to overdesign software (knockoff of OSS) that has an overall code quality worse than Microsoft. When your user experience inevitably turns bad, they have a staff of PR-drones to keep you loyal at all costs. I'm planning on taking my old mac mini and installing freebsd 11 on it before I do any more OS X upgrades. I guess the only hurdle is that Apple writes the firmware and whatever obscure key code you need to reach the boot manager. But I've bought just one Apple product in my lifetime and am through with Apple. If I had ever owned an Apple II, perhaps I wouldn't come down as hard on them.
...Apple crumble.
Nonetheless, Apple products are slightly more complicated than toasters so they aren't exempt from "having the problem in the first place". There is a level of engineering involved in nudging the end user back to happiness if something minor occurs. They've never been great at that and I have bailed many an OS X user out of some trouble they're having. I've bailed out a few iThing users too but those are EVEN worse. Especially when it comes to moving a media file out the iUniverse so that it can be played on say the Windows device connected to a room projector three minutes from now.
There is yet another level of engineering involved in making a tech's life easy enough to quickly turn things around when a problem isn't so minor. THAT has gotten gawdawful. Service Source used to actually be good. It's GSX replacement devolved into an ever escalating set of demands and nags on the techs. It's one of the factors driving my workplace running away from Apple as fast as possible.
Here is a novel idea: high quality AND be able to debug problems!
Apple has already blown half that pile by taking out $100B in combined bonds and 'special' debt in order to buy back stock and pay dividends. By the time they are finished with this buy back program nearly all of that cash will have been spent.
I will quickly admit to being an Apple fan, but they do seem to have a number of issues they just don't feel are worth fixing. Preview app is the one that pisses me off the most; it used to be a great viewer with built-in annotation options that rivaled Acrobat. But now the market has moved, and Bluebeam is the hot shit in that area. And Preview went 18 months being completely unusable (now fixed in that sense, but some updates slow things down and others speed things up).
They do need to get back to basics on a number of issues, and usability is one of them.
That said, compared to Windows it is still great in my world. Native ssh, rsync, and all the consistent UNIX commands is great. Compared to Linux... well they have their own systemd, which complicates things. They have a equally schizophrenic security model with pluses and minuses.
But to your complaint on logging, Console does a pretty good job filtering through content even if I prefer grep.
They never innovated since they steal innovations from other companies, once DOS then Windoze was released. Their products have inferior hardware compared to competitors like high-end Android phones and most MAC laptops. The $urface is not a viable long-term competitor to the surface because the $urface is so limited in comparison. Software for Windoze PCs are generally inferior to GNU/Linux PCs or anything on the MAC, without the niche markets due to stability and security issues. M$ is one giant bubble that's starting to pop. I'm amazed at how many people are totally in love with M$ and are incapable of seeing things objectively. It's like investment decisions are all being made by M$ fanbois.
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Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Friends do assist M$ addicted friends in committing suicide.
Apple has already blown half that pile by taking out $100B in combined bonds and 'special' debt in order to buy back stock and pay dividends. By the time they are finished with this buy back program nearly all of that cash will have been spent.
And yet the pile is higher than before. Must be blowing up the pile.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
But if things do go wrong it's really easy for me to ssh in and figure out what's going on because the Linux ecosystem is actually designed to anticipate errors, as opposed to my Mac where I can't tell the difference between an error and stupid interface design.
Sounds like a combination of lack of knowledge and bias, both on your part.
You can ssh into a Mac, too; or you can simply use any VNC Client to do "Screen Sharing" with a Mac (e.g., when on my work Win7 laptop, I use TightVNC). In fact, you can even launch a separate OS X session (using another User Account), and not disturb the GUI of the local user. Note: This capability even allows multiple VNC Clients to use the same Mac simultaneously. Try THAT with Windows out of the box...
Guess you need a little knowledge on remote Mac Administration. Here's an article on "Screen Sharing". And here's how to enable ssh on OS X (hint: the "Screen Sharing" (VNC) Enable is in the same place)
Let's prop them up like Tesla, with the indirect and direct government help (and like GM).
What if Android is overtaking iOS in phones, in the same way that Windows overtook MacOS in PCs? For those who don't remember: Apple nearly went bankrupt in the 1990s.
Apple had the same philosophy with PCs in the 1990s that Apple has now with smart phones: super high margins, everything proprietary. Apple expects to be worshiped to the point that Apple does not need to have a better value.
From what I have been reading, the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge beats the iPhone in several respects.
It is my understand that Samsung beat Apple to the punch in the following:
higher resolution camera
heart rate monitor
big display
amoled display
water resistant
wireless charging
1080p display
answer by waving
wirelessly sharing photos
controlling a TV
The Mac App Store is a particular weak point of Apple's. It very often seems like its been totally abandoned, and it causes almost as many problems as it solves. Unsurprisingly, it's the Apple faithful that complain the most about it, because it's a really glaring sore point in an otherwise very competent ecosystem. I never use it anymore. I was excited at first, but I can almost always find the app I need better using google, and more of my money goes direct to the developer that way. I prefer the app store model on the phone, but it's really been a bust on the Mac.
When AT&T and verizon stopped offering the subsidy, sales started to decline..