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      4 months ago

      He is a supply chain guy. He did a tremendous job on making sure you need for every single thing on an apple device either an adapter or a repair that cost more than the device itself. Since Tim took over, the only noticable succeful disruption from a technological perspective is Apples M silicon. The rest is old wine in new bottles. For the rest its upselling and people that are crazy enough to put 1200 dollar/euro down for a phone or an 8gbyte RAM Mac. And to be straight, I have no problems with that. But there might be a time where Apple ends up in that same corner.

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        They did an attempt at VR, just because it didn’t sell doesn’t mean they didn’t make technically the most capable VR set

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          At that price, they weren’t going to sell much. What jackass thought people other than the most rabid fanbois was going to spend $3500 on a beta version of tech that hasn’t got a killer app yet?

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          It’s easy to make the most capable product if you disregard the price point completely.

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          4 months ago

          They did an attempt at VR

          but it was a me-too attempt, almost a copycat of existing hardware… hardly innovative

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      4 months ago

      They’re living off the rent from older products. What’s their last innovation? Vision Pro??

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        Yes, it wasn’t a success, but at least they are trying. What’s the last Google innovation?

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            4 months ago

            Why are we expecting Apple to be innovative in particular? None of the big companies are doing that