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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."
So their great new innovation in the pipeline is.. a new iPhone.
Stick a fork in them.
Yeah, how can they survive against the next Galaxy S8 - that screams innovation.
Frankly at this point in time an iphone doesn't even have the number of features I have on my old samsung galaxy s3.
Mr Cook is just spinning around. Apple has non fucking idea for the next best thing. Smartwatches ain't it. Iphones ain't it, unless you want to end with a tablet as a telephone. So ? I don't know maybe a fucking desktop computer ? Ditch that cylindrical shit you take for a workstation and bring back the imac mini, or the fucking desktop workstations that don't look like a thermos bottle.
My wife is over her iPhone. She dislikes them cramming it full of apps that she doesn't use and can't get rid of. Especially since she can't add storage. Unless removable storage is in the pipeline, I know of at least one convert from apple to google.
In fairness to Apple, all those products you just described are multi-billion dollars lines of business for Apple. Computers both desktop and notebook, smart watches, phones, TV set top boxes, tablets, music subscriptions, TV and movie sales/rentals, music sales, all measured in billions not thousands or millions. And with the exception of computers, all things that weren't offered 15 years ago. Heck they still book a lot of iPod Touch sales. I guess I'd love to spin around Cook does, and the way Jobs did before him. I mean, they're no Michael Spindler, but they do ok...
Assuming you're sincere, there's a few reasons.
.. still.
While with the newer generation of Androids this might not hold true, but I bought an iPhone 5 some years back because:
1. The iPhone5 camera is far superior to an S4 or previous. No contest.
2. The phone is simply responsive and reliable. No hangs or freezes. It's quick. Neither my Nexic 7 nor S1 could make that claim. It's there when I need it, since it is above all else, a phone. My old S1 wigged out too much to be trusted. Good thing my car never broke down when that was my phone. (Granted, that's a long time ago) I have an S4 now for work, and it's better in that regard, but still flaky, IMO.
3. I bought an iPhone so as to familiarize myself with at least one Apple product, just to broaden my technical scope
4. Some apps are only available for IOS.
5. Simple, solid interface.
iPhone Downsides:
1. No SD card slot
2. Ridiculous price difference in upgrading from 16GB to 32 or 64. Heck, 32GB isn't even available anymore, and that's the sweet spot!
3. No easily replaceable battery.. (I just did it last month, it was a minor nightmare) But even the Samsungs are doing that now, so that's a wash.
I'm due for a new phone though, and I'm still considering an iPhone6. I'm not that crazy about Samsung's UI, and never looked that deep at an HTC, LG, or Droid.
I might switch though, as I'm not a fanboi or hater of either product.
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
And the reason for that is that Apple's profits are entirely based on hardware sales. Sure, there's iTunes, but really... If US carriers ever change the model that allows you to think you're getting a new iPhone every 2 years for just $200, Apple will take a huge hit. And it's not because their products aren't good. it's just that they've been good enough for 5 years now, and only through the operators' model of fake-subsidies on new hardware that anybody upgrades any more. I'm using a 3 year old Nexus 4 on T-Mobile, and it's basically fine for my needs. I may upgrade if a reasonable midrange device comes along that meets my needs better, but that's not going to be a $700 iPhone. But if I were stuck on Verizon, I might go for that $200 'subsidized' Galaxy 7...
Posted from my Android phone. Oh, I can change this? There, that's better...