Right, so basically I think I'm starting to see signs of Apple beginning to decline. I actually made a vlog post about all this, which I've linked below, but if you don't have the time to watch that, I'll summarise what I say in it:
They're focussing on short term profits/greed without thinking about the customer as much anymore. For example, their decision to get rid of the headphone jack, which nobody liked was disguised as an attempt to innovate and give the customer a better experience, but in reality it was a money grab to sell us all these expensive wireless earphones. Also, with the announcement of the new iPhone X being $999- Again, this is just an attempt to rip people off for short term profits without thinking about the future.
I think they're riding on the wave of customer loyalty that Steve Jobs brought, but eventually people will forget about him. His death was only about 6 years ago, so he's still part of the brand, but give it another 6 years, I don't think people will really associate him with the brand as much and Apple will be seen as a different company.
I think they're still trying to be seen as this innovative company, but lots of the "innovations" they're doing are taking away from the functionality of the product. For example, again with the iPhone 7 headphone jack thing, taking away USB port in their MacBooks to seem like they're ahead of the times- When in reality lots of people still use USB, so it's less convenient for everybody. They're also insisting on making everything as thin as possible, when in reality most people would give up 0.3cm if it made the battery on their iPhone last longer. Then with this whole forcing people to use Face ID instead of keeping the fingerprint scanner aswell as an option for when the Face ID is less convenient is making the product worse. Why not just have both and have the fingerprint on the side or at the back?
I just feel that if they continue to go down this route, eventually people will feel ripped off and switch over to Android.
What are your thoughts?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHkW8S0h6_Q&t
They're focussing on short term profits/greed without thinking about the customer as much anymore. For example, their decision to get rid of the headphone jack, which nobody liked was disguised as an attempt to innovate and give the customer a better experience, but in reality it was a money grab to sell us all these expensive wireless earphones. Also, with the announcement of the new iPhone X being $999- Again, this is just an attempt to rip people off for short term profits without thinking about the future.
I think they're riding on the wave of customer loyalty that Steve Jobs brought, but eventually people will forget about him. His death was only about 6 years ago, so he's still part of the brand, but give it another 6 years, I don't think people will really associate him with the brand as much and Apple will be seen as a different company.
I think they're still trying to be seen as this innovative company, but lots of the "innovations" they're doing are taking away from the functionality of the product. For example, again with the iPhone 7 headphone jack thing, taking away USB port in their MacBooks to seem like they're ahead of the times- When in reality lots of people still use USB, so it's less convenient for everybody. They're also insisting on making everything as thin as possible, when in reality most people would give up 0.3cm if it made the battery on their iPhone last longer. Then with this whole forcing people to use Face ID instead of keeping the fingerprint scanner aswell as an option for when the Face ID is less convenient is making the product worse. Why not just have both and have the fingerprint on the side or at the back?
I just feel that if they continue to go down this route, eventually people will feel ripped off and switch over to Android.
What are your thoughts?
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