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.
I feel fine about myself. My self esteem is not defined by the products I use or purchase, Up Yours. That over-used meme only comes from weak-minded amateur bloggers with little evidence to support it. How can they make such an unsupportable assertion about over 800 million consumers, many of whom were once Microsoft or Android users who made a conscious decision to buy another platform because of their poor experiences on the other? It is dancing in the graveyard hubris from people who are still using what those others have eschewed in favor of something those ignorant of the reasons for their moving on can not grasp nor understand. Therefore, they reason, it has to be something trivial such as self-esteem, and they shout this faux logic reason to themselves in their echo chamber to make them comfortable as more and more of their erstwhile compatriots leave.
“And what is Apple’s vision for the next 3 years other than milking retread phones and tablets again?
Nothing? I thought so.”
You have no idea, of course. Apple is famously secretive about upcoming products.
Apple spent $8.1 billion on R&D in 2015, up 34% year over year. It has thousands of brilliant employees. I think it has an above-average chance at many more wildly successful product lines, as well as disruptive changes to it’s existing products such as Macs.