Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] winning the lottery

I have them all except for the watch. IPad. iPod. iPhone. Mac. Apple TV. Airport. I don't see any waste just no need for me personally to own a watch.

~KLM

\\ "The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." ~ Albert Einstein //

On Jul 22, 2016, at 7:03 PM, David Smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Kris, I don't care a fig about Apple the company. Why, for heaven's name, should anyone? It's just one more media giant. Far too many of those, feeding continuous noise to a world thirsty for distraction from real life.

What I over-complain about is Apple the blown opportunity. Sour grapes. My apologies.

The iPad is a delight. Air Play works. Could be better, but it works almost well enough. My wife seems happy with Apple TV. The iPhone is bearable. I don't do Macs, but if I did, they'd be fine, too.

The rest, in my view, is waste. That's all.

On Jul 22, 2016, at 7:25 PM, Kris Murray krismurray@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I think you don't understand the vast amount of money a company like google or Apple has. Even if cook were spending like a Drunken Sailor (which I don't believe he is) he would have a long way to go before running out. Plus. As we saw when the company threw out Jobs, it's not cook or jobs that hold the reigns.

But. I'm curious. How is he just burning through wads of cash in your eyes? Research and development investment costs too high? Too many products? I'm curious because I don't believe it's happening.

~KLM
\\ "The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." ~ Albert Einstein //

On Jul 22, 2016, at 4:00 PM, David Smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Kris just said something that lit a lightbulb for me, opened a new perspective on an old topic. I've deleted his note, alas, but the thought lingers.

Apple got rich on the iPhone, and Tim Cook is using the windfall to push the company into a very different place from the one in which it was when Steve Jobs died. I'm afraid that Tim is in the process of burning through all that cash pursuing a tawdry and unimaginative vision of pop-culture power - Sony on steroids, maybe - but I'm probably wrong. Anyway, the memory of the glory years, when the genuine enthusiasm of a small group of nerds was the driving force behind a small, cool company, are a nice memory.