12-27-2012 11:10 AM - last edited on 03-06-2024 10:18 PM by ROGBot
12-27-2012 11:43 AM
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12-27-2012 12:10 PM
12-27-2012 12:29 PM
dstrakele wrote:
Scott still carries physical and mental scars from Apple abuse...
12-27-2012 01:09 PM
12-27-2012 02:56 PM
dstrakele wrote:
I think you hit the nail on the head and that Apple's "arrogant holier-than-thou attitude of its management" will be its downfall. They currently appear to be milking the customer for only small improvements that barely keep pace with their competitor's technology.
I think you can stick a fork in 'em, they're done. Their customer's dependence on the Apple "ecosystem" will carry them for awhile, but they reached their Zenith this year. You may hear future news reports of some 65+ year olds passing away in line at the Apple Store, waiting for the iPhone 10, but the customers will grow weary and move on, with Apple becoming like Microsoft, a large retailer of technology products paying a small dividend. Not a bad place to be for a company, but far short of most folk's current expectations.
12-27-2012 04:18 PM
cl-scott wrote:
I give Apple until 2020 to become not even a pale shadow of their former glory. For me, Tim Cook is the new Steve Ballmer. Jobs was a technology guy, he understood computers and associated products much the same way Bill Gates understood software having a programming background. Steve Ballmer was always the business guy, he was never the technology guy, and look at what has happened to Microsoft in the last decade. Tim Cook's big contribution to Apple was setting up their China manufacturing operations. When it comes to exploiting Chinese workers so we can have cheap electronics, Tim Cook may be a true genius, but he doesn't have the unique talents of Steve Jobs in recognizing potential markets and that obsessive nature. The whole Apple Maps incident is probably just going to be the first of many.
12-27-2012 05:56 PM
12-27-2012 01:52 PM