technology Is Apple Collapsing?

[Chigens and Kay 3,832]

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I went ahead and merged your thread with one of very similar discussion.

 

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[null1 606]

I feel like Apple may be headed for a huge downfall soon. Honestly, they used to be a great company. Always implementing new ideas into technology, cared about their customers wants and needs and designed they products accordingly, not to mention making them simple and easy to use without dumbing them down. Plus the aesthetics were downright amazing.

 

Now, they've become much more mainstream (which isn't inherently a bad thing. in b4 hipster-hate) and many times a larger company than they once were, and the strain is starting to show. For a few years now they've been shifting their focus more and more onto their profits, and less of the care and thought they used to put into their products, not to mention all of this increasing QC issues. Oh, and completely locking down everything into their own little ecosystem and the general lack of of new products/product designs.

 

What goes up must come down, and I have a feeling Apple's explosive era is coming to an end in the next 5-10 years.

 

 

EDIT: Somehow I managed to completely miss addressing the actual topic of this thread. I believe SJ certainly had a lot of creative control on Apple's projects, but it takes more than one man to create things like they have in the past. Apple's creativity and product design will not really suffer too greatly from his loss. Whether they keep heading on up or hit a decline, they would have done so with or without SJ behind the helm.

 

I think everyone is just a little panicky about the new iPhone 5 not being real popular. Maybe Apple might descend into a form similar to Microsoft, being mundane and all, maybe not. But I also have this theory about how Windows 8 will do really badly and might drive the people who aren't really computer savvy towards Apple because of the confusion that is Windows 8.

 

There's iTunes Store as well, an important section of Apple, luckily I have a feeling it isn't going away anytime soon.

[A Blithering Div 247]

Apple is starting to come undone but not because of Tim Cook. Steve Jobs decided to go "thermonuclear" on android without factoring in old time tech compaines such as Motorola retailiating. Its like a bad 90's Microsoft. The person I feel bad for is the Woz. He gets to watch the company he created crap over everything including itself.

[3005 332]

Apple is starting to come undone but not because of Tim Cook. Steve Jobs decided to go "thermonuclear" on android without factoring in old time tech compaines such as Motorola retailiating. Its like a bad 90's Microsoft. The person I feel bad for is the Woz. He gets to watch the company he created crap over everything including itself.

 

He still gets paychecks from Apple, but I don't know what for.

 

And actually, Steve Jobs was HEAVILY involved in design aspects. In facts, several Apple employees said he "liked to do all the things CEOs usually don't do, and didn't do any of the things they're supposed to do." For example, while Jobs was off micromanaging the hardware and software departments, Tim Cook did all the business stuff Jobs should've done, even though Cook was only the COO. NOW, what they're lacking is someone like Jobs who isn't acting like a big brother.

 

This has apparently been resolved.

 

Apple announced yesterday that Scott Forstall, who is pretty much responsible for iOS and the seismic shift we saw from desktop to mobile in the tech industry, would be leaving Apple in 2013, along with John Browett, who led Apple's retail stores team. The official memo from Apple claims the management shakeup is purely to help collaboration in the company and that Forstall's new title would be "Special Adviser To The Chief Executive Officer." However, it's not that hard to see that he fired. Jony Ive, the opposing force to Forstall, will now take over everything pertaining to design, a position only held by Steve Jobs before him.

 

We can expect to see a change in Apple's iOS, and I'm pretty interested to see what Ive is going to change (although it's safe to say that's Apple's mimicking of real-life materials, such as the poker table in Game Center, or the bookshelf in iBooks, or the leather binding in Calendar, is going out the door).

[Sky 746]

I guess you could call it *puts on shades* an apple crumble. YEEAAAHHH. But In all seriousness I never really did like apple anyway. I prefer androids.

[Crispy 5,563]

Are you kidding me? Under Tim Cook, the iPhone 5 was released and sold more than any other mobile phone product ever.

 

By that logic, Diablo III is one of the best games ever made. Copies flew off the shelves because of the name alone. It's still a pretty buggy and unbalanced game. iPhone 5 has the same problem.