You Have To Love Apple

[joggerjayne]

The innovative company that has, in the last decade, launched such diverse new products as ...

1. a tablet

2. a tablet

3. a tablet

4. a phone

5. a phone

6. a phone

7. a phone

8. a phone

Now, about to take the technology market by storm ... their latest innovations ...

A tablet

and

A phone

But here's why you must have one ...

Although the last generation of the tablet was better because it was more "compact" (ie smaller) ...

The new generation is better because it is more "expansive" (ie bigger) ... in fact, it's so big that it's "immersive"!!

I WANT ONE!

And the reason you'll love the new phone is that ... it's basically exactly the same as the current model ... which you already love.

I WANT ONE OF THOSE TOO!

How is the market keeping up with these breathtaking technological leaps of ...

Making things a bit smaller, and then ...

Making them a bit bigger again.

My mind is reeling.

[scorpiojo]

But the new iPad has ......a stylus!

[joggerjayne]

A stylus!

Now I'm really blown away.

Who would have ever thought of a stylus!

Apart from Samsung.

And HTC.

And all the people who sell different types of stylus in all the computer shops and department stores.

Apple lead the way again.

[scorpiojo]

:o))))

[SlackAlice]

You've forgotten the watch, how dare you!!

[joggerjayne]

Oh sorry, the famous watch ...

Which can't tell the time in the afternoon because the battery life is too short.

And only works at all if you also have your iPhone with you.

Unless the battery has also run out on your iPhone.

In which case neither of them work, and you're carrying around two lumps of lifeless metal.

Mmm, should I buy an iWatch?

Thinks, thinks...

Well, I suppose it has the fashion benefit that I could walk along looking like a total div, talking to my wrist.

[VHG]

Well to be fair to Apple they INVENTED the tablet market, and INVENTED smartphone market (no mean feat).

They also came up with ITunes (no mean feat to get the music industry to accept that).

And the Apple watch.

And now they have come with Apple Pay, paying for things on an iPhone.

So I think that is pretty good going considering Microsoft (for example) have still not made a good tablet, or a good phone, or something like iTunes, or Apple Pay.

So give credit to Apple for what they HAVE done.

They are also now the richest company in the world, with each Apple employee earning them about a millions dollars a year EACH if you average it out.

Also remember when Steve jobs was sacked all those years ago they were nearly bankrupt with their share price plummeting.

Quite a turn around.

[joggerjayne]

Incidentally ... daftest accessory ...

The earpiece!

How many people walk along with their earpieces in ... HOLDING their phone!

And sometimes, holding their phone in one hand, and holding the headset microphone to their mouth with the other.

So they have turned their "hands free" accessory into a "need to use both hands" accessory.

What are you doing ????

Dump the dangly cable, and lift your phone hand the final six inches to your ear!!

No, wait ... this will be Apple's next big innovation ...

A phone that you can ... hold to your ear !!

It will be so "intimate". So "tactile". You actually touch the phone to your skin.

Okay, who's got the phone number for Apple's R&D division?

[joggerjayne]

Apple Pay?

Clever, but ... hardly necessary.

I don't have too much trouble paying with my debit card.

And my debit card doesn't run out of battery mid afternoon every day.

As for being the richest company in the world ...

How can that be proposed as a good thing? It means they have taken more money away from their customers than any other company in the world.

By selling them the same item over and over again.

They have turned Apple customers into the easiest people in history from whom to take money. Which possibly makes them the most gullible consumers in history?

Don't get me wrong. I have an iPhone (which is a dinosaur compared with the Samsung) and I have an iPad, and a MacBook, and a Mac. But ...

I haven't had an iPhone 2 and 4 and 5 and 6

Nor a gimmicky watch.

Etc.

And I wish the next Apple product would make me go WOW!

Rather than ... Oh, it's ANOTHER iPhone!

[VHG]

That is a bit like critsizing Ford for only bringing out a car, then another car, then another car, then another car, then another car.

Anyway I don't see what point you are making, having a go at one of the most successful and richest companies in the world.

If it so easy why don't you start a company and see how successful you are.

Or is it easier to just sit on a computer and *** companies off.

[joggerjayne]

That's a good point, VHG, and it gets best answer.

Although ...

// why don't you start a company and see how successful you are //

Would another way to look at it be ...

Give me $700,000,000,000.00 (net value as at Feb 2015)

And 46,200 employees (current figure for full time employees)

... and see if I could come up with something more innovative than a

"slightly bigger phone" ?

[joggerjayne]

If you had 46,000 people at your disposal, and £70 billion ...

And the best innovation you could come up with was "an updated version of our existing product"

... would you feel truly "cutting edge"?

[joggerjayne]

$700 billion !

[joggerjayne]

With that sort of money, you could put people on the Moon ...

Or replace the internal combustion engine ...

Or make artificial intelligence ...

Or a phone that's slightly bigger than the last one. In fact, it's the same size as the one your rivals have been selling for two years.

[madiba]

JJ An extremely simple answer to your dislike of all things Apple.
If you don't like it don't buy it.

[joggerjayne]

madiba, that is so obviously true that I can't disagree.

Although I have lots of things from Apple, so I'm in two minds.

I just feel that a company worth $700billion should be able to come up with a product that makes me go WOW! instead of a new version of a product I've already got, and which is no better than the version I already have.

Huge launch campaigns, massive publicity, loads of excitement, and then you go ...

Oh. Is that it? So err, how is it different from the old model?

Ooh, well it's a bit bigger.

What, like those old fashioned mobiles?

Err, yes.