Yes. Of course Apple is < Tesla when it comes to automobiles. Your silence on BYD crushing Tesla, while criticizing Apple who has never built a car is telling. Also, your answering my two questions with another question is obvious deflection and a clear indication you have no good answer to either.
We might as well close down the planet then. Innovation isn't what it seemed to be.
Any serious response to the thread's original post will suffer from Brandolini's law.
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This is what’s known as a “Gish Gallop”. Throwing so many disconnected things into a single argument that there is no hope of getting to the point.
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I'm a big Apple and SJ fan since 1995 and a former software developer for the platform that was literally going out of business back then. However, never even considered Apple TV, apple watch or AVP. Still stuck with my trusty 2019 iMac due to the lack of upgrades and iPhone X because of the form factor. I have plenty of cash to spend, but Apple is not considering me as a target audience anymore. It's apparent if it wasn't for the iPhone, the company would not survive today.
Honestly, these kind of posts and the replies to it (mine included) are doing less for the world then they are doing for entropy.
Since Steve selected Tim to succeed him long before his death, I’d assume they have someone already. Cook was hired as the COO by Steve when he came back to Apple, so if I were to guess the road to CEO comes from that role, then Jeff Williams “might” be the next guy up.
I'd argue that the Apple car was a bigger misstep - rather than a project cancelled to benefit the Vision Pro. The Huawei approach was much more sensible, producing actual components for other cars / autonomous vehicles before attempting to build their own. As a result they've actually launched a car. It's not sexy, but by starting with small steps means you're more likely to be successful in the long run (and you can always fall back on a profitable business selling components to others).
Critics of Ballmer point out that Ballmer didn’t get into hardware soon enough. Ballmer was late to making phones, they only made the software. Watched a video where he said it himself, paraphrasing, “The only two companies that surpassed us were Apple and Samsung and it’s because they made goddamn phones.” Ballmer also disliked doing anything that didn’t make money right away or within a few years.
Such is the struggle of all social media, isn't it? I like your style because I totally agree - so many of us waste our breath on forums and message threads with aimless negativity, perhaps hoping for attention or to feel smarter. It's been my experience that most of the time when people are complaining about 'x', they're upset about 'y' elsewhere in their life and 'x' gets to be the proxy.
