“Apple chief executive told students today that Apple will have ‘more than 6,000 people’ employed in Cork when a new 1,000-job expansion for its Hollyhill campus is completed,” Adrian Weckler reports for the Independent. “‘Apple is proud to call Ireland home,’ he told assembled students from the Philosophical society in Trinity College.”
“Mr Cook had some sharp words for competitors. Despite saying that Apple’s relationship with Microsoft as ‘really good,’ he described the software giant’s new Surface Book laptop as ‘deluded,'” Weckler reports. “‘It’s a product that tries too hard to do too much,’ he said. ‘It’s trying to be a tablet and a notebook and it really succeeds at being neither. It’s sort of deluded.'”
“On the iPad, sales of which are currently falling as people buy larger iPhones, Mr Cook said he was ‘bullish.’ ‘I believe the iPad will return to growth,’ he said,” Weckler reports. “‘I only travel now with an iPad Pro and and iPhone, that’s it,’ he said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Deluded is the perfect description for Microsoft’s Surface Book.
As we wrote earlier this morning: The headroom for iPad remains virtually limitless, especially as Apple’s A-Series chips, iOS and iPad apps become ever more powerful. This “iPad pause” will not last forever.
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A better word for the Surface Book – shite.
No, a better word is competition.
There was once upon a time Apple’s product could speak for themselves, an amazing feat given none of them had mouths.
Almost a quarter of a trillion dollars in assets, or as many believe, a buffer against hard times, is plenty. Pay out 80% of the profits per quarter to shareholders, and stop buying back stock, and stop incurring debt to pay shareholder.
Just pay the taxes, Europe is going to hit Apple with a massive tax bill, then they are going to talk penalties.
Not after opening it’s new facility and hiring 6000 people.
As for you Bob……..I here you use your surface tablet while
sitting on the toilet. How appropriate!
That last paragraph is such a conundrum. The larger iPhone was cannibalizing the iPad so apple decides to create a larger iPad… To cannibalize the MacBook? There is sense and stupidity so tightly bound it would make teenagers at an old drive-in theater jealous.
What’s the conundrum? Larger iPhones are more expensive than smaller iPads. iPad cannibalization helps the top and bottom lines.
As for MacBooks, the high-performing iPad Pro models which are the most likely to cannibalize MacBooks are not any cheaper, so what’s the problem?
And, as Apple execs have stated numerous times, if they don’t cannibalize their own products, someone else will. There’s no conundrum. There’s only opportunity if you can recognize it.
When questioned at shareholders meetings about cannibalizing their own products, Apple adamantly defends the practice. The way they see it, progress and innovation cannot be stopped in the computing industry. So if Apple does not create and sell products that replace Apple’s current products, then someone else will.
Also, Apple claims that mobile devices will inevitably replace personal computers in the vast majority of people’s lives. With these perspectives, Apple has no fear of the iPad to cannibalizing MacBook sales, only excitement.
“So if Apple does not create and sell products that replace Apple’s current products, then someone else will.”
This is a basic business principle. Anybody getting in a tizzy about Apple cannibalizing their own products knows nothing about basic business principles.
I don’t believe all the BS about iPhones cannibalizing iPads. People want various sizes for different reasons. I have my iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and use them all every single day, for different things. While I can do similar things on each one, I tend to prefer one or the other for optimal experiences.
Same here. That’s why I don’t get the last paragraph.
After testing a Surface Book I strongly disagree. Very nice and useful device.
MacDailyNews is a great website and I usually agree with their excellent commentary. Unfortunately, I cannot agree in this case.
The Surface Book works very well in both laptop and tablet mode. If it was not so expensive I would buy one.
(Owner of Two MacBook Pro’s, 27 inch iMac, Two iPads, One iPod Nano, One iPhone 6+.)
Yep, gotta always tell us regular MDN readers about all the Apple products you own. Grumpy, you realize when I see this, my mind starts yelling, “Troll !!!”.
Sorry to disappoint you Arnold, no troll here. I’ve been a regular MacDailyNews reader and poster since 2007.
Been an Apple customer since 2008. Haven’t owned a non Apple PC since 2009.
At any rate I like Apple products. Nevertheless, that does not keep me from liking the very well designed Microsoft Surface Book.
Take Care.
Nazis made excellent tanks.
I’d love to utilize only an iPad Pro for work, but it will not be possible for some of us in situations where, for example, key team members utilize things like visual basic macros in Excel for accomplishing complex tasks. I doubt that Microsoft will ever make the iPad version of Excel run macros (nor am I sure that we would ever want to see it – with all the potential for malware). This is just a single instance of the type of work that will continue on a Mac or PC. I agree that most people’s uses for the computer can be carried out even better on one of Apple’s mobile devices. Some will still need trucks (or, in my case, more of a hatchback). Someday AI assistants will be much more useful and computers much more powerful and ubiquitous (“Star-Trekkie”), and the way we interact now with computers will look very “horse and buggy”.
With all that Apple has done, we are still adapting to our phones’ and computers’ way of doing things, rather than they adapting to us. The front end (UI) of the technology needs to become completely invisible and not act as an obstacle in any way to what we are attempting to accomplish (having to learn how to use it, for example). This, IMHO was really Steve Jobs’ long-term vision, or, at least, the logical evolution of it.
Cook is delutional. It’s the iPad Pro that’s a mixed up tablet having to fold a stupid cover to hold up this massive display. Cook is the one that’s wrong. Apple is lost with their iPad line and this product will fail BIG TIME.
Hell of a thing for a CEO to say. Very tacky.
Shit, tacky is all the monopolistic practices that MSFT shoved down everyone’s throat for 15 years. Fuck you and fuck them.
I’ll just leave this here and be on my way. http://youtu.be/O5YJS8HyES4
Genius.
For me, it all comes down to Windows. The Surface Book has it’s design perks (except that God awful hinge). It is a neat looking device. But the damn thing runs Windows. Every time a new Surface comes out I toy around with it in the store and come back to the same conclusion. The user experience is ruined by Windows. The pens are sluggish at best when writing, and Windows is still bloated and annoying. Apple may piss me off from time to time, and Microsoft might turn my head with a shiny new toy, but at the end of the day, 5 minutes in a store on a Microsoft device sends me running back to my Apple products.
You could always turn it into a hackintosh. It won’t be perfect but damn sight better that dealing with BSOD’s and endless random reboots throughout the working day. Productivity machine my freakin ass.
I use Macs and Windows PC about 10 hours a day. I can’t remember the last time I saw a BSOD or a random reboot. Windows really is rock solid these days — far more rock solid than iOS has ever been. And iOS is going to replace our PCs?! Fat chance.
I have been a photographer/graphic designer/software trainer for nearly 30 years. I am also an unqualified mac zealot. That being said I have used a SurfacePro 3 and it is a very nice device. Do I like the Windows OS? No! Is it the ultimate lon-ocation device for someone like me? Maybe. The iPadPro to me seems like a solution with no problem.
It’s funny how Apple is trying to convince graphics professionals they don’t need the power of a full blown OS with iPadPro and Pencil. Adobe is continuing to thumb their collective noses at Apple, who without them wouldn’t even exist and pander to Microsoft. IMHO Microsoft is on the right track with SurfacePro but their engineers are so out of touch with the creative world they can’t build their product to the level a power user needs.
Give me an iPadPro running a full OSX and a way to more easily move files on an off and I would be a convert in an instant
“Give me an iPadPro running a full OSX”
That is exactly what my artist brother wants.
I don’t own a Surface nor any other Windows devices but I will say I was very impressed after spending time with the Surface Book.
To give Microsoft its due, it was Bill Gates’ obsession with tablets that inspired Steve Jobs to develop the iPad, and through it the iPhone (he’s on record as saying that).
And I think the relative success of the Surface Pro 3 is what spurred Apple to do the iPad Pro.
I disagree. Go read the history of the Apple Newton and what followed. THAT was the start of tablets.
The Surface Pro 3 had nothing to do with Apple’s work on the iPad Pro. Check out the timing and consider the R&D Apple has put into the iPad Pro. No correspondence.
I’d love to upgrade my iPad Air to a Pro but at the price they’re going for that ain’t gonna happen.
If Apple want lift sagging iPad sales they’ve got to think hard about price.
With all due respect, Sir… or Madam….
Apple has thought long AND hard about price, and it is obvious you have too, so have most Apple users and investors…. it has been a primary focus and let to the opportunity to create all of their products, which are superlative
So, if you want the best and are willing to consider total cost of ownership, please join the intelligent, otherwise you are welcome to settle for inferior products based on immediate visceral response to price tag, as you wish.
Good day, sir….
I personally have no comprehension why Microsoft hasn’t flushed the Surface, just as they flushed their awful Zune thing.
Apparently, this is what happens at uninspired companies with lots of cash to burn. Let us bow our heads and pray that Apple never goes that way. 🙏🙏🙏