Tim Cook Defends Apple, Teases Exciting New Products In The Pipeline (bgr.com)

anderzole quotes a report from BGR: Apple's earnings report last week saw the company report a year over year decline in profits for the first time since 2003. The biggest contributing factor to the decline, not surprisingly, is that year over year iPhone sales dropped by 16%. Notably, Apple's most recent quarter represents the company's first iPhone sales decline in history. Consequently, the usual contingent of pundits and analysts have come out of the woodwork, all exclaiming that we've reached 'peak iPhone' and that Apple at this point has nowhere to go but down. In an effort to inject a bit of good news and all-around optimism to a particularly negative Apple news cycle, Tim Cook earlier today appeared on CNBC with Jim Cramer where the Apple CEO teased that Apple's still has a lot of innovation left to do and some interesting items in the product pipeline. "We've got great innovation in the pipeline," Cook said to Cramer. "New iPhones that will incentivize you and other people that have iPhones today to upgrade to new iPhones. We are going to give you things you can't live without that you just don't know you need today. That has always been the objective of Apple is to do things that really enrich people's lives. That you look back on and you wonder, how did I live without this."

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i can't wait!

[Gravis Zero]

the word on the streets is that they integrated the iWatch functionality into the next iPhone. this way you can see what time it is without an iWatch!

Apple's new slogan

[Pollux]

We are going to give you things you can't live without that you just don't know you need today.

Apple's new slogan: "We give you solutions in need of problems."

We know what the next innovation is.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

We all know it is going to be iCar. It will be shaped like a rounded rectangle. It will be incompatible with the current traffic signals. You see, at present the traffic light simply radiates in the visible spectrum in one of three frequencies. Couple of organic sensors mounted called eyes (not iS, that is copyrighted by Apple) on an organic body (usually a Homo sapien sapien) detect the frequency and takes appropriate action. The iCar will not have a transparent windshield, because glass windshields are so 20th century. It will feature a beautiful brushed aluminum body all around, not marred by stupid things like windows and windshields. So the visible light can not be detected inside the car. So all the traffic lights must be upgraded to a bluetooth interface broadcasting the stop, go, caution information and the iCar will detect it and display in a very tiny but very cute display inside the car.

Innovation, to the nth degree! Man, it is going to rock the world.

Re:New iPhones

[bondsbw]

If it's an iPhone that allows

- Icons in arbitrary locations on your home screen
- Home screen replacement
- Multiple user context (my employer doesn't completely control my device)
- Removing stock apps from my home screen (I don't have an Apple Watch)
- Miracast support
- Customizable lock screen (widgets)
- Customizable control center
- Silencing my phone when I have a "busy" entry on my calendar
- Wifi Analyzer
- Tasker

Then it would be at the most basic level of where it should be, in my opinion.

Re:New iPhones

[Plumpaquatsch]

Ooh, so insightful.

It generates clicks because it contains information that is noteworthy and that people are interested in reading. If people weren't switching, if the iPhone market share weren't stagnating, the article wouldn't have been written. If it did not exist, it would not generate clicks.

The fact that this needs to be explained to you is frankly pretty sad.

The fact that you are plain wrong is highly entertaining.