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Thanks for posting something to help distract from the Cruz vs Trump feuding currently causing a lot of hard feelings.
Prediction: This author will one day end up selecting what new car he’s going to buy based upon whether it offers integrated discrete Apple CarPlay.
"Someone could argue that iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were self-disrupting--that such dramatically larger handsets risked pushing away some customers. Not when Apple kept selling smaller, older models and when market demand had shifted to larger smartphones. If anything, Tim Cook demonstrated risk-aversion and supply-chain thinking by taking so long to release handsets with larger screens. This is where his genius bows before logistics that make short-term revenue-generating, margin-maximizing sense at the expense of Apple's innovation ethic."
What Joe Wilcox fails to recognize is that the iPhone 6 and 6plus, as well as the following year's iPhone 6S and 6S plus didn't disrupt previous iPhones, they disrupted the iPad market, especially the iPad Mini market. Like the iPhone before it has completely disrupted the iPod market because no one could justify carrying an iPod when an iPod was built into every iPhone ever sold, therefore iPods stopped selling in as large a number as they sold in before, the larger screened iPhones make smaller screened iPads some what superfluous. Why use an 8" iPad when a 6plus has a 5.5 inch screen with a higher resolution that is almost as big, and will do just fine for most things the larger iPad Mini could do? That is why the iPad market is dropping in sales.
In other words, Apple under Tim Cook, is still willing to disrupt its own products as it was under Steve Jobs. Apple is doing the same exact thing with the iPad Pro and the MacBook Airs.
Joe Wilcox's premise is completely wrong there.
"Idiots will flame this post "clickbait". It's how they draw attention to themselves, to inflate their egos; others mistakenly will assign motivation to my writing—e.g., for pageviews, when I couldn't care less about them. But I do care about Apple, as a longstanding customer (starting in December 1998). As a journalist, I developed a reputation for hating the company (I don't) so long loved because my stories aren't kiss-ass fanboyism. What's that saying about being hardest on the ones you love most? Kind I am not."
His first amazing paragraph. Stunning isn't it?
Wilcox also starts out his screed by trying to inoculate himself against any criticism by claiming anyone who does criticize him are egotistical "idiots" trying to garner attention to themselves. It strikes me his insulting ad hominem blanket attack is pure projection. His entire article is a cry for attention and clickbait for hits. He announces it for what it is, Pure FUD BUNKUM, and then tries to claim it really isn't by deflecting the critics even before they call him out on it. Hilarious! As far as I can recall, Wilcox has never written a positive article about Apple.
I am definitely not an Apple fan boy, but Apple has a long and profitable future to look forward to.
Wouldn't be surprised if Apple ends up with a significant share of the future drone market, self-driving auto market, and even space delivery market.
The Apple watch was just a nifty toy for fan boys. The Apple car will be a useful product for everyone.
This cannot be true. Donnie says he is going to make Apple maker their phones in the USA.
Apple needs an iShoe.
They said the same thing in the 90s.
Author seems to think EVERY new product and update should be “disruptive”.
I fully expected Joe Wilcox to be a bearded hipster millenial but it turns out he is a rather plain (and by plain I mean bizarre) looking, bald middle-ager.
Still, that doesn’t prevent him from using the kind of adolescent internet cliches that invalidate his piece through their sheer volume and triteness. To wit:
idiots, flame clickbait, egos, haters/hating, kiss ass, fanboy, f*** you moment
He also misuses ‘schizophrenic’ as does 99% of the rest of the world.
I realize blogs are exactly that but far too many of them extrapolate personal anecdotes and choices into macroeconomic certainties. Bloggers seem to lack any awareness that they are a minority within a minority ie power users who obsess over the smallest details and who will make wholesale changes in their technology over the smallest trifles or merely for the sake of change. They imagine there is a personal, emotional connection between them and a multi-billion dollar corporation. In other words, they scoff at the mass marketing while falling victim to that same mass marketing even as they tell themselves that the multi-billion dollar corporation is bound to care about their every thought.
Finally, the author’s thesis is...what? Inevitable? Cowardly? Blindingly obvious? Predicting that market leaders will eventually lose market share in large or small measures is the safest bet in the casino. The list would fill a book: GM, McDonald’s, Staples, et al.
His criteria for success are contradictory and odd: products that offer new and deep revenue streams are unworthy and ultimately detrimental because they are not - Hackneyed Phrase Alert - ‘disruptive.’
What follows is bewildering stream of consciousness that essentially says ‘Apple will ultimately fail because it has succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest imagination.’
The concluding paragraph is pure comedy: ‘My personal loss of interest in Apple products is boredom.’ This piece runs 2,497 words. If this is boredom I hate to see what keen interest looks like.
I bought an iPad Pro around Xmas, and I still can hardly put it down. I rarely use my $2k laptop anymore. the iPP's performance and form factor are incredible. Favorite device ever...and I was an Android guy.
http://betanews.com/2015/08/30/collapse-of-the-iphone-empire/
iPhone is headed towards commodity status Other smartphones will swamp it.
Big stock market drop here and China will mean millions less vanity purchases these Apple junks. I dumped all my AAPL a few months ago and anyone with a brain will do the same.
Never get married to Tim KooK and never get married to a stock. Go ask Art Cashin.
And what is Apple’s vision for the next 3 years other than milking retread phones and tablets again?
Nothing? I thought so.
The author did point out an obvious flaw of Apple cheerleaders. They want their products to make themselves “feel good”.
Now, Swordmaker, before you go off into some giant gyrating novel-length response, please sum up this vision in a sentence or two justifying why you think Apple’s on the right path to future domination of the technology world.
There should be some catch words in this vision like “holographic”, “universal”, and “flexible”. Tell us why Apple is going to be a game changer.
The only time anybody needs to worry about Apple is when it gets to be more like Sculley’s Apple than Jobs’ Apple.
Just take a look at the difference in those three Apple eras (Jobs Era 1, Sculley Era, Jobs Era 2) and compare the Cook Era to them.
Of course the Cook Era is a moving target, but watch the trajectory and see where it’s headed in comparison to the aforementioned Eras.