Originally Posted by ScottC
(Post 21654395)
Innovation surely didn't leave Apple when Steve Jobs passed away, did it?
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Originally Posted by Weez_1000
(Post 21654915)
The next big whoa for me would be an appleTV and not the little streaming device I mean a full blown TV with appleTV/ios built in. Its been rumored forever but then it went very quiet.
It would be better to make a killer home entertainment box - Apple TV is awesome, but quite frankly, Roku kicks its butt. We still don't have apps on Apple TV, and I think those have been rumored since 2009. In the meantime, ny daughter can play Angry Birds on my $80 Roku with its motion sensing remote with wireless audio built into it. |
Originally Posted by gfunkdave
(Post 21655285)
I think it did. Hence the halving of their stock price since he died.
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Originally Posted by star_world
(Post 21655490)
I presume this was intended to be sarcastic, since the stock price is up 37% since then :)
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Originally Posted by ScottC
(Post 21655323)
But WHY? What could Apple add to a TV that would make it better? And I don't mean the content part, I mean the actual panel and enclosure. Shipping and inventory of these things would be a nightmare.
It would be better to make a killer home entertainment box - Apple TV is awesome, but quite frankly, Roku kicks its butt. We still don't have apps on Apple TV, and I think those have been rumored since 2009. In the meantime, ny daughter can play Angry Birds on my $80 Roku with its motion sensing remote with wireless audio built into it. Ive had boxee, roku, ATV and WDTV i much prefer WDTV over all the others because i can stream anything to it. MKV, AVI, MP4, you name it it can play it. |
Originally Posted by skofarrell
(Post 21655272)
https://www.cio.com.au/article/52928...n_led_us_apps/
30K Office licenses and the annual maintenance fees....gone. You win some, you lose some. :D |
Originally Posted by pseudoswede
(Post 21656142)
Further down the article, it says Johnson Controls just purchased 180,000 Office365 licenses.
You win some, you lose some. :D |
Originally Posted by Weez_1000
(Post 21656096)
Integration with all the apple devices, streaming/airplay. A lot of people know how to stream stuff to their TVs but 90% of the world does not ie: my mother. Integration would be a welcome change.
Ive had boxee, roku, ATV and WDTV i much prefer WDTV over all the others because i can stream anything to it. MKV, AVI, MP4, you name it it can play it. |
Originally Posted by ScottC
(Post 21656706)
And what do you think the chances are of an Apple product being open to stream anything? I also don't get just how much extra integration you need - a decent MHL equipped AppleTV box would control the TV, auto switch to the right input and even control the volume on the Apple remote. Roku can do it, why can't Apple? I just don't believe in an Apple made TV set. It makes no sense.
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Originally Posted by pseudoswede
(Post 21651565)
Very true. I wonder what kind of truly innovative technologies coming soon will make people go "wow"? (And won't be leaked months in advance.)
The only thing off the top of my head right now would be a 7" tablet with a screen that can fold into a more manageable phone form-factor. |
Originally Posted by pseudoswede
(Post 21651565)
Very true. I wonder what kind of truly innovative technologies coming soon will make people go "wow"? (And won't be leaked months in advance.)
The only thing off the top of my head right now would be a 7" tablet with a screen that can fold into a more manageable phone form-factor. http://www.wired.com/reviews/2012/03/sony-tablet-p/ Apple doesn't feel like the kind of company to over-engineer something like that. "Folding" just doesn't seem like their thing. |
Originally Posted by ScottC
(Post 21654395)
I asked when Apple will start innovating again, and as usual, an Apple fan tried to ... It's not possible to have a conversation on the merits (or lack thereof) of tech without the usual nonsense that goes on here. That is a big part of the problem. -David |
Originally Posted by ScottC
(Post 21657887)
Sony tried something like that, and failed:
http://www.wired.com/reviews/2012/03/sony-tablet-p/ Apple doesn't feel like the kind of company to over-engineer something like that. "Folding" just doesn't seem like their thing. |
Originally Posted by skofarrell
(Post 21655272)
https://www.cio.com.au/article/52928...n_led_us_apps/
30K Office licenses and the annual maintenance fees....gone.
Originally Posted by The linked article
Over the coming year, Whirlpool, the home appliances giant, will move about 30,000 employees globally from an on-premises IBM Lotus Notes email and collaboration system to Google Apps
Other, of course, than how they're both great and terrible in their own ways.
Originally Posted by skofarrell
(Post 21656212)
Whirlpool's 30K are gone. JCI had old traditional licenses...the net gain is -30K
This is Voodoo math that the MPAA would be proud of. The question was how will MS make money if Apple gives away its OS. In the article you presented, MS earned money from 180k Office licenses, despite the fact that none of those 180k Office licenses represented a "new" Office customer. I still think that answers the original question pretty clearly: They will continue to sell licenses for Office even though free options are available. Now if the original question were "How does MS plan to get NEW customers and grow their business" or even if it were "How does MS plan to stop users from switching from their cash cow to a much-less-functional and nonstandard yet free service" then maybe this might have been almost an argument. The original question was "How is Microsoft going to compete with free?", and I think the answer is still "because everybody's still buying Office and that in itself is still a rationale for everyone else to buy Office". And just to briefly touch on the functionality aspect: sure, 80% of users may not use the advanced features of Office, but that doesn't mean that they aren't using them somehow. Few people here know how to use an excel macro, but every project here relies on at least two of them. And without them, a significant amount of change would be required just so people who don't know the difference between VLOOKUP and a Worksheet can continue to use the same tools they've been unknowingly using all along, even if they "don't use them". Now maybe this is just my experience, but I've also never subscribed to the "well most people don't need these, so you shouldn't need to have them either" attitude. |
Originally Posted by pseudoswede
(Post 21659088)
I was thinking of a flexible OLED screen.
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