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Apple might be moving into the era Oracle Corp moved into 15 years ago, where all innovation will occur through acquisition.

• dfee 9y ago
  “Innovation” doesn’t feel like the right term. Texture appears to simply re-package content. In my mind, Apple is buying a “product-owner” to move on it’s greater ambitions (Apple News).
• ksec 9y ago
  That is not entirely true. People have these fantasy where innovation == invention. Apple is the one with the ecosystem and marketing power that brings new invention with value to customers. And mostly with an improved version of the invention. The day Apple make acquisition and brings a poor product or services out is the day they enter Oracle Era. Given how I think Oracle makes ( mostly ) absolutely appalling products I say the day is yet to come and far from happening in near future.
  • catach 9y ago
    > The day Apple make acquisition and brings a poor product or services out is the day they enter Oracle Era. Does Apple Maps count for that? I think a more reasonable standard would be if there was a consistent pattern of making bad choices.
    • ksec 9y ago
      Yes it does, along with Apple Music. Especially on an International Level. But It is improving, just at a very slow pace. May be we just have very high expectation on Apple, so we are always little too critical. And I agree with consistent pattern of bad choices.
  • reaperducer 9y ago
    > The day Apple make acquisition and brings a poor product or services out is the day they enter Oracle Era. What about Siri? /Siri, add ginger ale to my groceries list. // I've added gaming hammer to your groceries list. /Siri, what's the weather? // Here are some web sites I found about "weather."
    • mitchty 9y ago
      So for fun I switched Siri to German and well, no issue whatsoever. Was ist das Wetter heute -> Hier ist die Vorhersage für heute No worries there. Füge Ginger Ale auf meiner Einkaufsliste hinzu -> Du hast keine Liste namens "Einkauf". Soll ich eine erstellen? -> Ja -> Ok, ich habe das zu deiner Liste Einkauf-Liste hinzugefügt. I'm pretty sure I translated grocery list wrong but even with my shit German Siri got me what I was trying to do. I probably should have used https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/Einkaufszettel https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/Einkaufszettel now that I look at it. OOPS.
    • briandear 9y ago
      Hey Siri, play Delta Blues! ..Delta Blues starts playing. Hey Siri, play the first album from T-Bone Burnet. ..and it plays. Play the number one song from 1983.. And Every Breath You Take by The Police starts playing.
      • Nullabillity 9y ago
        "Hey Siri, play Förgätmigej by Raubtier" ..good luck with that one.
    • achompas 9y ago
      I don't like voice assistants, but she's not that bad. When I ask these questions, she asks if I want to create a grocery list (I don't have one) and shows me the 7-day forecast.
• overcast 9y ago
  Let's hope not. Oracle is where innovation goes to die. Their catalog of software is a horrendous maze of interconnected crap. Dealing with that suite nearly brought me to leave my current organization. Mercifully I was moved off that team.
• jhi892asdv3 9y ago
  A chip designing, consumer gadget producing, software development, media distribution company with the amount of cash they have on hand is a bit different beast than "Database company that no one wants to work with, except when forced to by mgmt."
• baxtr 9y ago
  You’re right, Apple is doomed. Again. They always have been