3 ms·
No one's calling it the end of Apple, but these are extremely ill-timed events in light of the big question mark hanging over Apple's head after Jobs' death. W
by dclowd9901 14y ago
No one's calling it the end of Apple, but these are extremely ill-timed events in light of the big question mark hanging over Apple's head after Jobs' death.
When you have that kind of reservation looming about a company, you need to see encouraging signs, not the recent flow of tepid-to-bad news we've been seeing lately.
Between the ads, the loss of the CPU designer, the less-than-inspired iPhone 5 product image leaks (assuming they are real) and insignificant incremental product updates, one shouldn't be blamed for not ignoring the writing on the wall.
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoIf you're going to go on assumed product leaks being true they launched the tear drop shaped iPhone 5 last year. Encouraging signs: * In their recent "disappointing" quarter they grew faster than Google. * Mountain Lion has just become the fastest selling version of Mac OSX ever, shipping over 3 million copies in the first 4 days (from memory, those numbers may be a little out). * The latest figures show iOS market share increasing despite the fact that the iPhone is due a refresh (which has historically meant sales are at their slowest). * In a market where PC sales as a whole are decreasing, sales of the Mac are increasing. But hell, they did some bad ads, the writing is on the wall.
- atirip 14y agoIf you know anything about product cycles, you should know that iPhone5 is absolutely signed off by SJ. And it is 100% certain that this phone is not the last product he signed off.