Statement of Tim Cook during his visit to Paris. Is he crazy ?
General / Off-Topic It became impossible to live without an iPhone
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I have a crap £50 Android phone.
I certainly don't feel the need to own an Apple phone.
Or any Apple product for that matter.
What do they offer besides fancy retail packaging?
I certainly don't feel the need to own an Apple phone.
Or any Apple product for that matter.
What do they offer besides fancy retail packaging?
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I don't own any Apple stuff so he's flat wrong.
However he does have something of a point. Smartphones (of whatever brand) are ubiquitous in our society, and how we do things has definitely changed. Think maps & GPS...
FWIW I remember going to music festivals before mobile phones were consumer items, so you needed to pre-plan stuff with your friends, know how to read maps, blah blah blah!
Yaffle
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Never owned one here. I seem to be living perfectly happily outside the walled garden. My wife has one, which she swears at daily because it's so unintuitive to use and keeps asking for another password for some 'give your data to Apple' thing. And the battery is rubbish. That logo looks cool though.
Jenner
I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
There's a joke in there somewhere about Apple's marketing strategy.
Ian Phillips
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Who is Tim Cook?
Ian Phillips
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No - seriously. Who is Tim Cook ?Brilliant !
Oh, come now, you get a little Apple logo on your stuff, the fact you pay +70% on a device with the exact same internals, is by the by. ;-)
P.S. In case the sarcasm was lost, I personally despise Apple and the spell they have cast on knowless, non I.T. professionals (and some of those too). Great marketing ploy though.
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Haha! I wish I could +1 this post right now! :]
Yaffle
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Apple's CEO. The successor to the late Steve Jobs.
Apple has a few problems - no new products and too much cash (indicates no idea what to do with it).
I like my iPhone for the same reason I like apple routers
They are not intrinsically "better", just slightly more complicated for your average random internet scrub to mess around with
They are not intrinsically "better", just slightly more complicated for your average random internet scrub to mess around with
Ian Phillips
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Seems like there's a worm in the apple ...
Also, who would want an apple someone obviously already took a bite from [hehe]
For a company that's a problem. If I was personally in such situation, I'd say I'm in a happy place.
No he is selling something.
I think these people live in their own private universe, unaware of us, normal people.
He can believe what ever he wants.
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verminstar
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I use an iphone, so does my daughter. She uses an ipad more than her laptop and both of us together have about 30k hours worth of music on our joint itune account. Her laptop is apple...dunno which one I dont touch her stuff and she doesnt touch mine apart from sharing music tastes...to a degree. I also have an ipod in the car because I cant get the phone to connect to the older system installed in the car...apple are tricky with the car cant pair it with the hands free at all. I hate new technology and I hate apple...but they so damned easy to use...just not when Im driving...
The logo always reminds me of the apple from garden of eden fairytales...no idea why just thought Id mention it ^
The logo always reminds me of the apple from garden of eden fairytales...no idea why just thought Id mention it ^
I will never buy an Apple product, because of the attitude Steve Jobs had towards other (non Apple) products, and with the appearance to believe that their customers were cash cows to be milked as much as possible. However, I do admit that the way they manage software (all apps have to interface in a specific, standard fashion) allows all of the apps to interact seamlessly with a minimum of fuss. My cousin does use Apple products (but he does not buy a product as soon as it comes up; he jumps a generation, and waits 6 months to allow for any bugs to be ironed out), and has written apps for them.
How do you panic Apple aficionados? Camp outside an Apple store at 21:00!
How do you panic Apple aficionados? Camp outside an Apple store at 21:00!
