Yeah. I’ve been a pretty consistent Apple advocate since about 2007 with the Mac. Back then there was a lot to write home about. Now I’m just not sure. The change is palpable. I wasn’t totally behind Steve the autocratic ringmaster but at least he had the good sense to put the consumers first, because that’s what made Apple different and made them so much loved. Tim seems like an alright bloke but his ambitions for Apple seem way to operational and profit-centric, so that anything that isn’t the latest hot thing to get the high-pressure investors in a fit of capitalist ecstasy is an expense to be spared. The phone is leading the pack, of course, but this ship isn’t going anywhere without some inspiration about how things should be done. I also fear for the Mac and believe that it still has a future if Apple would only acknowledge the form factor, even though I just know it’s on borrowed time now. I’d love to have been in the board room when they concluded that they had to keep the Mac around because otherwise there’d be nothing for the iPhone fans to buy for their next college computers, or for developers to develop iPhone apps on, even though it put an unwelcome dent in the returns. Tim is quite the iPad fan too, and can’t imagine why anyone would want a PC (or Mac, by oblique extension). It’s this gradual transformation from a wonderful company that makes products we never realised we wanted to just another materialist technology giant that makes me sad.
I guess I’d like to see the watch become more independent because you could then do the basics as long as you had previously visited the remote Wi-Fi network with your iPhone. But then I’ve heard both sides of this, and do accept that the watch as extension can work, provided you come to it with that expectation. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
