Apple a joke lately?


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They refreshed their entire iPod line, released new iTunes and released OS 3.1 and people are acting like they haven't done anything. There were no "groundbreaking" innovations but those type of products are released every few years, not at every Apple event

The only people really complaining are people who generally don't like Apple anyway, or people who took rumor sites too seriously. Anyone who has been an Apple user for more than a few months should have found yesterday about typical for the product cycles, as you pointed out.

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They refreshed their entire iPod line, released new iTunes and released OS 3.1 and people are acting like they haven't done anything. There were no "groundbreaking" innovations but those type of products are released every few years, not at every Apple event

Exactly. The iPods are still popular, as are the iPhone and OS X is slowly but surely gaining market share and mind share. I wish I had thought of a joke like that. I would be worth billions.

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seriously folks, i never understood how one can be disappointed by .rumors. not turning out to be reality.

i love reading apple rumors but instead of being disappointed when they dont release something i liked out of the rumors i just go on and say ... nothing, really. it was just rumors made up by people that, some more, some less know the way apple as a company is working and what COULD POTENTIALLY be released in that certain keynote ahead.

nothing less but nothing more, too!

i mean BMW couldve come up with a self driving car by now, its almost 2010 afterall and there were rumors about it and concepts almost 50 years ago!

apple is a company. a kinda ... lets say ... they like themselves, you know what i mean ... but its a company and they make decisions and either you live with it or you change the brand of your mp3 player or phone or computer... your choice. but not really apples fault

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I have only been disappointed Sept 9 at the iPod event.

The new iPhone is amazing, it had a lot of updates. I don't really know why you're whining, especially because you KNOW there will be 1 iPhone a year.

The new iPod nano is very good, but I'm not convinced by the changes of interface in iTunes, my smart playlists bug on my iPhone 3GS, and the new iPod Touch could have gotten more updates than just speed + earphones and mic + bigger capacity + inferior price. That being said, it's still a good update, just not what I expected.

The new Shuffle, I've never really liked it, but I'm using these earphones + mic on my iPhone and they work like a charm. So maybe the new Shuffle is good, I have no idea.

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Haha I did... in fact, even after seeing my iPod Touch, a friend of mine bought a Zune last year, because it was a little bit less expensive than iPod nanos and Touch obviously.

Now he says the battery doesn't last much more than 20 minutes with the screen turned ON, and the updating system has not been used anymore in months, while on the contrary, I will be able to update my firmware on my iPhone 3GS every year and we still get a bunch of features. And he says there were a couple of cool apps at first, but now the platform is like... dead! He won't do anything else than listen to music with it, because the rest is either bad implemented or the battery causes too much trouble. Not to mention he hated the application on Windows that's linked with the Zune...

So he's seriously thinking about buying an iPod Touch from the new line.

But it's the only Zune I've ever seen in my entire life from my very own eyes.

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haha yeah! i mean i live in germany and the zune is not avalible here but i do have alot of friends in the US and none of them has ever seen a zune in person. :p its like everywhere on the internetz but nowhere to be found in real life, i guess. ;)

i like the looks, though and the UI. ;) and the zune player looks awesome imho. id really like to touch and play a bit with one of these one day. but i dont see them coming out in europe anytime soon. ;)

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It feels as 2009 was/is a year for refinement at Apple. They have not released any major products this year with new designs or exiting new features for us consumers. But they have refined the MacBooks, the iPhone, the iPod-line and OS X. Basically all Apples products have received "small" updates that did not change current designs etc. that much.

The desktop Macs could be in for a small(ish) update before christmas as they were updated in March. But I don't think we will see any "new" Apple products this year.

I do believe that 2010 will have much in store from Apple. Since all products have been refined in their current state, major updates should be in order for the entire hardware and software lines. And exiting new products should definitely be a possibility no?

2009 seemed like a year for Apple to catch their breath? I think Snow Leopard is the best example of this.... Or perhaps they decided not to do any major things when Steve was gone? But that seems a little odd.... Anyway, just my 2?

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No me neither. But Microsoft is planning to release the Zune HD global, two years behind the iPod touch.

Just like Apple decided to release the iPod in 2001, three years after the first hard-drive based music players, right?

If the Zune HD turns out to be a hit (and I think it will,) then it doesn't really matter how long it takes to get to market.

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Just like Apple decided to release the iPod in 2001, three years after the first hard-drive based music players, right?

If the Zune HD turns out to be a hit (and I think it will,) then it doesn't really matter how long it takes to get to market.

Yes but the time it take to hit the market strongly influences whether or not it will be a hit tho.

I don't know why MS is so cautious with the Zune. By committing so little to it they are never really going to make any headway against Apple.

They need to produce a decent platform for both a media player and a phone with a matching ecosystem Then subsidise the products and release globally. Something along the lines of what they did with the XBox. Instead they develop and maintain a crippled media player with unwanted features and release in the US only. I could understand the caution if they were cash strapped but they aren't and this approach is like trying to start a business with a fiver.

Meanwhile Apple's platform continues to evolve and stay ahead of the game. Apple's tablet is only just around the corner now and that could well be a big hit.

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They need to produce a decent platform for both a media player and a phone with a matching ecosystem Then subsidise the products and release globally. Something along the lines of what they did with the XBox.

What's the profit model of selling a product vastly under cost without hope for 'real' future revenue.

Are you proposing Microsoft make up money on the music store?which isn't the way Apple makes money with the iPod?or somehow recoupe the cost selling every Zune owner 5-dozen $5 applications?

Microsoft's business should be focusing on creating a profitable product line: you don't need to have 80%+ market share to do that.

Then we should consider that customers have indicated that price-alone isn't a deciding factor for music players. There are hundreds of players cheaper than iPods but Apple's line continues to sell very well. If this market isn't very price-sensitive, why subsidize the product? It's better to make $50 on 5 zunes, than $1 on 50.

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Apple have always been a bit different compared to the other tech giants but lately yes they have been a bit of a joke. All the recent rumours of future Apple products have come to nothing.

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Just like Apple decided to release the iPod in 2001, three years after the first hard-drive based music players, right?

Except Apple brought something revolutionary with it, while the Zune is evolutionary at best.

Apple have always been a bit different compared to the other tech giants but lately yes they have been a bit of a joke. All the recent rumours of future Apple products have come to nothing.

So they're a joke because all the delusional rumors haven't turned out to be true? Are you for real?

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haha yeah! i mean i live in germany and the zune is not avalible here but i do have alot of friends in the US and none of them has ever seen a zune in person. :p its like everywhere on the internetz but nowhere to be found in real life, i guess. ;)

I guess people in the US aren't looking for them. I see them in Wal-Mart all the time.

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I still think that the best thing Apple ever made was the first generation iPod Shuffle.. Okay the storage capacity was really low, but it'd plug into almost any usb port without any need for proprietry cables or docks and with the rebuildb.exe software, iTunes was unneeded as you could just drag-and-drop in explorer (like onto any flash-drive) and then run the exe and it'd play the files fine.

I loved it :-D Now if only it came in larger sizes......

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Just like Apple decided to release the iPod in 2001, three years after the first hard-drive based music players, right?

If the Zune HD turns out to be a hit (and I think it will,) then it doesn't really matter how long it takes to get to market.

Yea, but the early hard-drive based music players all sucked, so that doesn't matter.

And the Zune HD will sell to a few, but the mass market will not grab onto another MS "me too" product.

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Except Apple brought something revolutionary with it, while the Zune is evolutionary at best.

So they're a joke because all the delusional rumors haven't turned out to be true? Are you for real?

Usually Apple rumours are true and when your not it does seem to damage Apple's shine a little more than it does the other tech giants.

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Usually Apple rumours are true and when your not it does seem to damage Apple's shine a little more than it does the other tech giants.

Yeah, but how does that make them a joke? Remember, there were no promises.

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Absolutly , This slide pritty much summed the whole thing up for me . Apple is hellbent on re-branding old tech as their own .

PDA =/= Netbook

because sometimes you just want to do something more than play with a fart app. i have an iphone and i enjoy it, but i also have a dell mini 9 hackintosh for surfing the net and goofing off on the sofa. you can't compare the two imo.

still waiting on MBP with blu-ray. i have a 3 y/o laptop with blu-ray, get with the program apple.

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Apple has become more arrogant and obnoxious than Sony ever dreamed of being.

Heh, well, I don't know that I'd go as far as to say that. Remember the XCP rootkit and "people should work more so they can afford the PS3. $600 is too cheap."

Still, though, I've been increasingly unhappy with Apple since the iPhone's release. The name change from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. really sums up the problem I have with them. They're becoming too much of a mass-market consumer-electronics company and not enough of a geek/techie company. I appreciate the innovations they've made with their touch-sensitive controls and such, but I'd really like to see them put more focus on the Macintosh line and on OS X. I remember being pretty thrilled at the features in 10.2-10.4. Expos?, FileVault, Dashboard, Automator, etc. 10.5 didn't "Wow" me as much, and I won't go into my "No 10.6 for PPC" rant right now, but suffice it to say that I'm none too happy about my $3500 G5 Quad being stranded on 10.5.

I know the iPhone is their latest darling, but their PCs and OS are very well-built and it's a shame to see them pushed aside for gadgetry.

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