Add: Have a Gay man as CEO.
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Makes sense to me.
I have lots of Apple products and a history of arguing with ‘he who is not a dentist.’
Apple is, IMHO, on a downward spiral...sad.
There is, psychologically, very little difference between an Apple ‘fanboy’ and a liberal. Both classes do not tolerate dissent.
This is not ‘flameworthy’ - - - it is a true statement.
It's not the Apple, it's the fanboy. (Granted ... Apple does seem to me to have a disproportionate number of fanboys.) It goes way beyond just electronic gadgets, as well. I have seen the fanboy phenomenon with cars, guns, cameras, novelists ...
I don’t really see Apple innovating anything. (or anyone else for that matter)
I think their main strategy now is to try to maintain their market price, and everyone else is pretty much doing so too. Until something ground breaking comes along, the smartphone has basically been ‘done’. Now we are just looking at little improvements here and there to warrant a new ‘version’; such as a better battery life or reception, CPU, ect. With smartphones, we’re pretty much where we were with PCs around 2010.
Apple is a product of Jobs’ commercialization of 60s sensibilities.
“Technology for the rest of us”
It will not survive with corporatist process guys like Cook. The original examples of this were Amelio and Dietsel.
Even Scully had more creativity; he tried to make the Newton work. Bit ahead of its time, but the right direction.
The company is now on a long slow glide to irrelevance as just another Consumer electronics mass producer. They still have Jon Ivins and possibly more like him upcoming, but no Steve to filter what is and isnt cool.
There are a whole lot of conservatives here on Free Republic using Macintosh computers, iMacs, iPods, iPads, iPhones and all Apple accessories and services ... all of which are great products.
That’s why Apple is doing so great with consumers in the USA and around the world!
The FUD Packer has posted. You are slipping. It took you five posts.