could be Rimm in less than 5 years..

Too bad (for you, apparently) that Apple continues to pull in lots of profit.

It’s not all about you. Deal with it.

Apple’s iPad and iPhone are the mobile devices I prefer. Screw the MacBooks, gimme a better desktop for my central hub.

Apple isn’t exactly winning the competition against Android and other copies.
Mac Pro users are still waiting for Thunderbolt-equipped machines with graphics options.
Apple software packages that should be world-class have been languishing.
Crappy features have been added to the Mac OS and good features have been abandoned for no obvious reason.
Apple’s update cycle on the iPhone is predictable but not necessarily competitive with the competition gunning at it.
The shopping experience at the iTunes store hasn’t improved at all in years. Too much clutter, too clumsy a search/sort/view interface.
The iTunes app remains bloated, with crap like Ping only cluttering up what could be a svelte responsive program.
Apple is wasting energy defending its manufacturing/labor practices, something that Apple should also take pride in being world-class in executing so there is not a whiff of concern. Most puzzling, though, is that Apple apparently has nothing on which to spend its cash horde, so it’s issuing a dividend. That’s the sure signal that there isn’t anything earth-shattering impressive in the pipeline.
The new Macbooks with Retina display are nice, but just like multicore processing, precious little consumer software actually takes advantage of it.

Tim is no doubt expending as much effort as anyone could, but the results aren’t overwhelming yet. There is room for improvement. And as much as Apple pays its CEO, he should be able to walk on unfrozen water and cure the sick.

While world’s largest companies like Microsoft, google, samsung, sony can’t seem to be able to steal 4% market share off Apple-dominant iPad world, this guy is crying to see next revolution from Apple.

We must remind the guy that this is building of an ecosystem. Each element of that ecosystem is introduced to the market with careful timing and upgrades of the linked products are brought in to complete the cycle where and when it is important.

It maybe worthwhile to look in to the immediate reaction from Google to it’s ad tariff, with the wake of Apple’s map. This is probably what Tim might have guessed.

1 to 2 is a 100% growth, and 100 to 150 may be just 50% growth. But which %age of these two brings more profit is key to understanding what is going on.

Google and Microsoft thinks Apple is their RND unit. Every time Apple introduces a new product / project, lives of the engineers at Microsoft and Google become harder – they need to clone it. The instruction may be “just curve the owner” or “change the color” before labeling it “MY PRODUCT” with a slogan “it’s better” or “it’s bigger”

** What a TECH world **

However, having said all that, Apple has absolutely lost some of it’s magic over the last couple of years and that’s got nothing to do with Tim Cook. I love Apple products and currently own over $10,000 of Apple equipment, but I don’t get excited by Apple announcements like I used to. Through the naughties, I couldn’t wait for WWDC and any big announcement that followed. I remember the thrill of the first gen iPods and the iPhone, the Macbook air and then the iPad, but nothing since has really knocked me off my feet. Retina display iPads, iPhone 4s and MacBooks are impressive, but those announcements haven’t left me bowled over like previous products. I suspect it’s because Apple has become big, really big and although they still innovate, they also consolidate more than they ever did and I suspect they will take less risks in the future. Which is great if you’re a share holder, but not so great if you want to keep on getting that buzz from the good old days. I suspect I’m just saying aloud what a lot of Apple fans think, I could be wrong. Also I hope i’m wrong and Apple bring out something so amazing that I feel compelled to queue up at some ungodly hour to be the first to have one, like I used to.

Such fun.

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One good litmus test for any of these would-be pundits…how long have you owned AAPL?

Option-click the Go menu in Finder to reveal the Library—simples!

Oh and I use gestures on my Magic Mouse all the time—I find it very productive but YMMV.

=:~)

Apple seems to me like they MAY be beginning to slip. I’m the biggest fan boy of all. I’ve been using Apple products since before I could walk. I have hundreds of thousands worth of Apple stock (my dad bought me in at $28 a share). I worship Apple. So believe me that any concerns I have are legit.

1) Lion is terrible. I wish I wasn’t forced me to update to use new services. I use a desktop with a standard mouse. I bought the ‘mighty mouse’ when it came out, and while it’s functionality was fine, it failed in a lot or respects. I play too many games for a magic mouse to be useful. So, right away most of the toted new ‘features’ of lion, the ‘gestures’ are unusable.

Another feature they added – launch pad. Wtf? Why would I need/want this for anything? It’s basically a dock… On my dock? Garbage. ‘but look- its designed to be like iOS!’ Why am I using a desktop? Why would I want it to emulate iOS?

And they HID a lot of the file system! Wtf?!? Users>library>application support is hidden by default. Why? That’s a vital directory and I dont want to need to jump thru hoops to ‘unhide’ it. When a .plist gets corrupted for some reason the only way to fix it is to go and move/delete the old one and generate a new one. This happens more often than you might think (I worked phone tech support for Apple from 2007-2010 and I can tell you the most common problems people had we’re resolved by fucking with the plists) and its just a bigger nuisance to have to dig into these directories now that they’re hidden. Thanks Apple for that!

Sure it might make it easier for noobs to navigate without accidentally messing with shit that they shouldn’t, but this is a gibberish, nonsensical move from a power users perspective.

2) iCloud is disappointing. Setting up iCloud on mobile with an existing mobile me account is almost impossible. They want you to create a new @me.com or completely change your primary Apple ID. Hundreds (thousands) of people have had problems with this and Apple doesn’t present a solution that isn’t bullshit. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3380582?start=0&tstart=0

3) Apple can’t hire a lawyer that knows wtf they’re doing. The way Apples getting shit on in courts all over the world (and more importantly in the U.S) is giving me the fucking ‘fear’. Sure the court system is to blame, the ‘slavish copiers’ are to blame, the patent office is to blame… It’s just a shame, and scary that this COULD be a repeat of the vs. M$ scandal from the 80′s/90′s.

I’m Apples biggest fan. I’m worried about a few things. If you all aren’t, then you’re blind to reality. Wouldn’t it be wiser to acknowledge these few shortcomings that Apple has and push to see them remedied rather than deny them till it’s too late? For shame.

You see, there’s the problem. Anyone who follows Steve Jobs has that pressure upon them, since that’s exactly what Steve Jobs used to do regularly.

Personally I believe that Jobs, knowing that the end was coming, pulled forward a lot of the revolutionary stuff by sheer force of will. Under another CEO the iPad, for instance, might only be getting released now. Of course the trouble with that strategy is it leaves one hell of a void for any successor to fill.

Once Cook’s Apple releases one completely new success the pressure will tail off, but the longer the incremental rather than revolutionary improvements dominate the Apple headlines the greater the pressure will be. I’m sure he knew that before taking the job, so don’t worry on his behalf. He’s still raking in the billions in the meantime, so there’s no calling for his head from anyone who matters.

Steve did seem to reign over Apple, though.

Brandon is the quint essential Troller that has been making rounds like all the poor roaches.

I just get such a great laugh from this type of stuff, you got all these losers running scared now due to worst Microsoft launch since Windows Vista and they have no clue what to do, they waited so long they don’t like Apple and android is horrific and now it’s all faded away, dried up and gone.

On the surface “pun intended” Now we see a need to Attack Tim Cook for making Apples worth more then any other company has every seen in Tech.

Love the little jabs also but who in the hell mentions Grandparent’s in a post to covey a point unless your 12-19.

Enjoy that stock Brandon, and remember, you really aren’t that important.

Choice is a freedom and really, no one really cares what your poison is.

If your having a Baaa….d Night sleeping, you can always count those sheep.

The rest of the industry is still playing catch up with Apple. Ultrabooks are still trying to be like MacBook airs from several years ago, but not making money. Tablets are trying to be like iPads, but not making money. iPod killers died without trace. Apart from Apple, only Samsung makes money from building smart phones and their products owe everything to the iPhone.

Apple will release it’s next “Wow” product when it’s ready. The one thing that they won’t do is to call a press conference and try to create the illusion that they have a ( sometimes ) working prototype, followed by giving the attendees the opportunity to have “hands-on” experience with a dummy keyboard.

No one was expecting the iPhone 5.

Apple better get their act together quickly.

Seriously, they miss you back at StupidSite for Winblows . Please go back the village ia obviously short an idiot.

TheMacAdvocate’s usage was correct. He was being gently sarcastic of Brandon’s grammar error.

Loser. /s

Ok seriously, what makes you think that Pixar has lost anything since Steve’s death? (I’m guessing that is what you were trying to say)

Brave just opened as the 13th straight number one opening for the company, and they don’t seem to have lost any of their “startup” culture, even as a subsidiary of Disney.