This gets tricky. Sure consumers can provide lots of useful feedback for
things that should work but have bugs or tweaks to an existing product.
For something revolutionary I won't know I like it until it actually
exists and I can try it. Who knew a touch screen UI could be so useful?
I was plenty happy with my old folding phone with real buttons. This is
where consumer feedback can't really help. A company like Apple needs to
recognize where the technology is heading and then figure out how to
apply it to solve a point of pain in many people's lives. I may have
told this story before but I remember arguing with a Vax mainframe admin
years ago because he felt using the CPU to operate a full-screen text
editor was wasting precious CPU cycles and people should just learn to
use command-line substitutions to edit text. Obviously it turned out
over time that people were far more valuable than CPU cycles. "Wasting"
them on making things easier eventually always trumps. So what could you
do if unlimited CPU cycles and bandwidth were fre? I think musicians
have had to deal with some of this. Used to be you had to get everything
done in one take with just a four-track tape recorder, a few mics and a
few instrument. Now days, what can you do with a hundred tracks where
you can punch in and out a flubbed phrase or play a synth that can
reproduce nearly any instrument? It makes it hard to decide what to do
next - the paradox of choice. I'm hoping the really smart folks at Apple
have figured this out. With an infinite blank page in front of them,
what story do they write next?
CB
On 3/22/16 2:34 PM, Vaughn Brown wrote:
In all of this I wonder if consumers are not voices what they would
like Apple to develop directly to Apple. How can a product be
developed without a demand?
Vaughn
On 3/22/16, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<[email protected]> wrote:
Another perspective is that most people don't know a great thing until
there are a few years of hindsight. I remember one of my co-workers got
one of the very first iPhones and I couldn't figure out why. It was a
battery hog, heavy and my little folding phone made calls just as well.
Who knew then what the trajectory would be? There is also 1.0 iteration
issues. The original Lisa was expensive, slow and buggy but they kept
iterating on the basic strong bit of a more human-centered interface.
That eventually became the Mac and it's been pretty good since. Lessons
learned from the Newton as well. So is today's Apple Watch just a Newton
or Lisa - a good core idea that is usable today but needs more
development? Maybe AppleTV is just iPhone 1.0 and we haven't realized
where it's going to go.
There is one snag in the IoT when those are durable goods. Most devices
are running about a 3-year life cycle but my fridge, TV and thermostat
are expected to go much longer than that. So what happens to my iOS
enabled fridge when iOS 15 comes out? TVs are really hitting commodity
prices where margins are super thin so I doubt Apple would want to get
into that space. It does make sense to have a removable brain (AppleTV)
which I can just plug into the TV or upgrade when brain 2.0 comes out.
That also means when the TV dies I can swap it without tossing the the
brain with it. That was the idea behind having separate components in AV
systems. If you had a TV with a DVD player in it and the player dies,
then what?
CB
On 3/22/16 1:24 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
They will sell new iPhones, the iPad is arguable at best. Sales have
almost tanked on iPads and let’s face it, the phone carries Apple when
you consider just how much of it’s cash flow is on the phone exclusively.
And you m are good points but I counter with where has been anything
in the last 5 years. Ok larger screen, incrementally faster
processors. Apple didn’t do anything Samsung or the other guys
haven’t done other than continuing to execute a design that was better
to start but that’s only going to get them so far. I agree it doesn’t
have to be earth shattering overtime but once in the last 5 years
would be nice. The watch is a maybe but when that’s all you can point
to that’s just sad.
And I would disagree about the earth shattering / disruptive part.
Ask a cab driver if his / her life has changed:). I shorted a large
hotel chain last year because it was about to get Air BnBed out of
existence.:) Excellent and well presented points though, definitely
something to think about.
I hope I’m wrong by the way, I’d love to be blown away for years to
come by Apple products. I’m a big fan I just hope they can find their
way again.
On Mar 22, 2016, at 1:16 PM, John Panarese <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I think people have to put this into perspective. There hasn’t been
any significant innovations by any company that has been earth
shattering. I think there is an expectation that people have that
Apple is going to release an actual time machine or a version of SIRI
that will do your laundry or make you coffee. Realistically, I don’t
think we’re going to have any major jump in technology for some time
to come, so if you think every Apple event or Google event or
Microsoft event is going to present something so truly awesome, you
probably will be left a bit disappointed. We might see minor jumps
here and there, but the curve is going to be relatively fixed for a
while.
The other part of it is from a marketing standpoint, it was
important for Apple. There are areas of the market that these
products now fill for them and for companies, it’s about the revenue
stream. It might not have been Mac refreshes or anything that
directly impacts the blind, but they will sell the new iPads and
iPhones and a lot of them too.
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On Mar 22, 2016, at 12:38 PM, Rod Skene <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I liked it. Very impressed with the update to Apple TV. Folders,
dictation, and Bluetooth keyboard are all very big for me.
I really like the new iPhone. May try to find a way to switch from
my 6S plus to the new smaller four-inch phone.
Finally, off-line dictation on my iPhone is really big for me as
well. Overall there are several new features and a piece of new
hardware that really interests me.
Rod
Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse any errors.
On Mar 22, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Jenine Stanley
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I really think in terms of these presentaitons that we consumers
are our own worst enemy. We now *expect* big things, in March, in
June from WWDC and then again in September/October.
I’m reeling a bit just thinking about iPhone 7 possibly this fall.
I just got a 6s. I know that the new phone plans where you pay each
month and can get the latest and greatest phone are becoming the
thing but at some point I’m afraid we’ll get to that stage where we
can’t be impressed by anything unless it shocks us or is hitting us
with the force of short time spans. I hope that made sense.
Maybe the Spring Event for Apple needs to be toned down. Maybe they
don’t necessarily need to have one.
Was I hoping for more? Yes, but more detail, not more new and
innovative.
For those who feel Apple isn’t blazing trails anymore, what trails?
How do we know this? Just because they aren’t publicly saying
anything about projects doesn’t mean they aren’t happening. That
goes for any company.
I guess my htought on the event as a whole is that it was what it
was and over-analyzing, which we all are guilty of in this 24-hour
news cycle world, can only lead to disappointment…unless Apple
sends me that space Black Milanese Loop band for saying this.
Jenine Stanley
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On Mar 22, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Jenny Wood <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I didn’t take time out of my day to monitor the event, but I am
kinda glad I didn’t hold off on buying the Apple Watch back at
Christmas, when the predictions were that a new version would be
released this spring.
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On Mar 22, 2016, at 7:32 AM, Scott Granados <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Wonder if anyone else felt the way I did. The event seemed to be
a total waste of time. Watch bands, really? You wanted time out
of my afternoon for watch bands?
In my professional opinion it was serious weak sauce. Wonder
what others thought, is it just me?
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