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The Age of Apple Is Over, It’s Become the New Microsoft

2 points by sidcool 10y ago

coldtea 10y ago
>It’s no big deal because iPhone 7’s most noteworthy upgrades are that it comes in black, is water resistant and no longer has a headphone jack. Nothing earth-shaking. Yeah, who cares about the actual technology inside (e.g. a great new processor and graphics card, redesigned lens system, etc). It should have some new user visible gimmick -- perhaps a built-in yoyo that extends. Also, funny how this signals that "the age of Apple is over". I lived through the core of the "age of Apple", and all Apple did, and they did it brilliantly, was such small incremental updates. Way smaller in fact. People cheered in Keynotes and obsessed in forums over small improvements over several generations of iPods. "Now it has USB", "Now it has a new scroll wheel design", "Now with a color screen", "Now it can also play videos" -- that went for 5 years. The end result is what we have now: the iPhone 7. As mature as it comes, few more possible gimmicks to add, after you've added a great mobile camera, all kinds of sensors, wifi, 4G, touch sensor, water proofing, multi-touch, and all the other things it currently has. Plus: "More impressively perhaps, the A10 Fusion processor is faster than every MacBook Air ever made, the only caveat to that statement being a multi-core result recorded for the early 2015 MacBook Air, which is powered by an Intel Core i7 and scores 5650, just edging the iPhone 7's result of 5630. Apple's latest flagship phone also performs comparably to an early 2013 MacBook Pro, powered by an Intel Core i5."
taylodl 10y ago
"The future of tech belongs to the young upstarts." Somehow the author missed the fact Apple was a 26 year-old company when it began its so-called "revolutionary era." The device I'd keep my eyes on is the Apple Watch: all the pieces have yet to fall in place though with the introduction of the AirPods we're getting a glimpse of where they're headed. Pay attention so you don't miss the revolution happening right under your nose.

2 points by sidcool 10y ago

>It’s no big deal because iPhone 7’s most noteworthy upgrades are that it comes in black, is water resistant and no longer has a headphone jack. Nothing earth-shaking. Yeah, who cares about the actual technology inside (e.g. a great new processor and graphics card, redesigned lens system, etc). It should have some new user visible gimmick -- perhaps a built-in yoyo that extends. Also, funny how this signals that "the age of Apple is over". I lived through the core of the "age of Apple", and all Apple did, and they did it brilliantly, was such small incremental updates. Way smaller in fact. People cheered in Keynotes and obsessed in forums over small improvements over several generations of iPods. "Now it has USB", "Now it has a new scroll wheel design", "Now with a color screen", "Now it can also play videos" -- that went for 5 years. The end result is what we have now: the iPhone 7. As mature as it comes, few more possible gimmicks to add, after you've added a great mobile camera, all kinds of sensors, wifi, 4G, touch sensor, water proofing, multi-touch, and all the other things it currently has. Plus: "More impressively perhaps, the A10 Fusion processor is faster than every MacBook Air ever made, the only caveat to that statement being a multi-core result recorded for the early 2015 MacBook Air, which is powered by an Intel Core i7 and scores 5650, just edging the iPhone 7's result of 5630. Apple's latest flagship phone also performs comparably to an early 2013 MacBook Pro, powered by an Intel Core i5."

taylodl 10y ago

"The future of tech belongs to the young upstarts." Somehow the author missed the fact Apple was a 26 year-old company when it began its so-called "revolutionary era." The device I'd keep my eyes on is the Apple Watch: all the pieces have yet to fall in place though with the introduction of the AirPods we're getting a glimpse of where they're headed. Pay attention so you don't miss the revolution happening right under your nose.