Posted on 01/19/2015 11:18:56 AM PST by martin_fierro
According to “Apple-naysayers” ... Apple has been in the process of disappearing into the abyss of nothingness for the last 30 years ... LOL ...
Those same “Apple-naysayers” will be saying the same thing for the next 30 years ... :-) ...
“I don’t really see Apple innovating anything. (or anyone else for that matter)”
So Tesla didn’t create AC CURRENT?
Ford did not innovate by creating the production line?
Apple’s iPad did not create a new era in ‘computing?’
Wow. BTW - I read your comments four times. I could take your comments to mean that NO ONE will EVER innovate ANYTHING ever again.
I’m sure I am misunderstanding your remarks, or that you live in a cave..
Steve’s kibosh on the small iPad was probably the correct decision. My wife has a first generation Mini and it’s OK but my Air 2 is almost as light weight and its screen and performance just blow the mini away. Now that Apple has a phablet (iPhone 6+) the Mini’s days are probably numbered.
I never said they DIDN’T innovate anything.
I said they AREN’T innovating anything. (note the concept of time with the words)
You read it four times? lol
He’s a typical APPLE-NAYSAYER. We’ve heard the very same thing for the last 30 years. These people can’t stand the fact that Apple is this successful. It grates on them everyday they wake up ... so much so they can’t help themselves and have to post their “naysayings” here in Apple threads.
It’s quite an OBSESSION that they have. I’ve seen the same “naysayers” doing that for over a DECADE here on Free Republic ... LOL ...
Hate the screwumorphism.
Just sayin.
I wish it were true.
But I was there for the first go-round in the early 90s with Spindler and Amelio.
I recall my young neighbors working for Steve at NeXt. They clearly had a great op system although the box was so-so. That was Tevanian’s doing.
So recall that was when Apple stock was surfing below $14 (1997). And about to simply evaporate in a sea of beige boxes. Amelio brought Jobs back in and was promptly knifed in the back by him.
But time and the market showed this was the right move. Give Amelio credit for bringing him back.
It’s Steve & Steve’s company. It’s based on an attitude and worldview. Can’t be bottled. Gotta come from the soul.
That soul’s gone...then so’s the company.
When Musk heads to Mars...sell the Tesla stock.
“That’s why Apple is doing so great with consumers in the USA and around the world!”
Sure. And the stock market in 1928 was FANTASTIC!
The company, Apple, is not very friendly to any other system that is not in it’s infrastructure. It get’s a frowny face :-(
I loved when the first iPod (5G iPod) offered video out: White was left, Yellow was right and Red was video... The start of the Apple problem. Not a word from the base. Wrong IS wrong(BTW, universally, YELLOW is always video).
I have three Macs, FWIW, and an Apple ecosystem. I just realize that they are a friendly as the Obama administration.
Some LIKE it!
I, see the future issues...
Yes.
My response was correct.
Try again...
Bookmarrk
So Tesla didn’t create AC CURRENT?
No. Hippolyte Pixii built an alternating current generator a couple decades before Nikola Tesla was born. He didn’t do anything useful with it.
I can't claim to be an expert on the man, but for quite a long time my impression of him has been not terribly favorable. When first I heard of him, I was under the impression that he was an electronic genius who alongside Steve Wozniak created the Apple II computer.
As time went on, I kept hearing more and more information that led me to believe this wasn't true, so I became perplex as to just what it is he did. I was informed that he ran the "business" end of Apple, while Wozniak was the primary designer.
Hmmm... "Business", huh? The world has always been full of people who could do stuff like that, and I never considered it to be particularly creative or needing a "rare" talent.
So what the H3ll was Steve Job's contributions to the company which every one was raving about? The movie "Jobs" cleared it up a lot.
He was essentially an aggressive and arrogant bullsh*tter who felt entitled to be admired and respected as well as rich. Well, he got funding capital. Obviously no body else in the world could have done that.
When the movie showed that they decided to dump him, it didn't seem very surprising to me. I couldn't see what he was contributing to the company either.
Another scene in the movie shows him expressing disdain for the Sony Walkman by tossing it into the trash as if to demonstrate that it was a piece of sh*t and a genius like him could do far better. Sure he could do better. Once the technology got there, but then so could anyone. Sony even.
When it's all said and done, I am left with the impression of Steve Jobs as the Tech industry version of the "Emperor" with no clothes. I just don't see any "there" there. He just strikes me as an obnoxious person who was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time, and lucky enough to have made some good acquaintances when he needed them.
He's more huckster than guru it looks like to me. Oh, and to top it off, I found out a month or so ago, his first business was selling "blue boxes" to people with the express intent of cheating the phone company out of telephone charges, basically aiding and abetting criminal activity. I'm left not understanding why anyone respects this guy. Entitled feeling Spoiled brat is what he looks like to me.
Jobs was the keeper of a vision that often only he could see, and that era is now gone. Whether any of this matters is yet to be seen.
By the new style do you mean Yosemite? My Mac keeps asking me whether to update to Yosemite and I keep putting it off in part because I’m not sure whether I’ll like the new look (haven’t seen enough to decide either way).
And I can’t upgrade to Mavericks because Apple does not support USB monitors properly, much less Yosemite.
Pity, if it was Microsoft the $hit would hit the fan...
You’ll be seeing “future issues” in your mind for the next 30 years, too ... :-) ...
What about having the king of global warming scam artists on the board of directors?
I mean Jon Ive doing the redesign of iOS 7 to dispense with “Skeuomorphism” ...
Apple’s iOS7, Well, It Was Time For Skeuomorphism To Die
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/09/19/apples-ios7-well-it-was-time-for-skeuomorphism-to-die/
Of course we’re on iOS 8 now, so this was already started quite a while back (with iOS 7) and polished off more with iOS 8 (now).
Fucik (a well known composer) off.
I’m not a ‘naysayer’ - the truth is inherently hard to realize if you have a closed mind.
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