The Macalope was go to say he ’s see Apple armchair quarterback come and go , but in reality , they unhappily never seem to go anywhere . They just keep spinning the same nonsense year after year .
It should be observe that armchair quarterbacking is a special type of Apple punditry . Anyone can say “ Samsung / Xiaomi / The Pepsi Cola Bottling Company will destruct Apple ” or “ These production cuts mean no one likes the new iPhone , even though they happen every class . ” That ’s just your standard nay - say anything Apple . And it ’s different from differentiate Apple to do therightthing , even if it does n’t make sense for the bottom line .
Armchair quarterback is presume to tell Apple how to best melt its commercial enterprise to be successful financially . Armchair quarterback is say “ Sit down , Tim Cook ! I , a person who writes for a publication that is begging you to turn off your ad - blocking agent , bed better how to play your bazillion - dollar society . ”
allow ’s look at one of the most crying instance in semi - recent memory .
It was only seven of our Earth days ago that people were proclaiming that this Tim Cook guy was no good , bereft of ideas , and Apple should instead – are you ready?–buy Tesla and make Elon Musk CEO . Why ? Well , here the Macalope is de jure compel by the Bureau of Takes That Did Not Age Well to advise you to swallow any liquids , solid state , or Newtonian fluids you might have in your mouth before reading the follow factual true inverted comma .
Elon Musk is the unstoppable instauration steamroller of our fourth dimension .
Mmmmwah ! They should put that in the Smithsonian in the Magical Thinking display . Assuming they have one .
Here in this world , Musk ’s genius bonafides are somewhat sus , as the kids are most assuredly no longer enounce but maybe still were seven years ago ? Not really sure .
“ Elon Musk ’s Twitter Buyout Is Officially the spoiled Deal Since Financial Crisis ”
If there ’s an upper side here , it ’s that it could n’t have screwed a nicer collection of banks .
… the like of Bank of America and Morgan Stanley …
view and prayers for theirEBITDA .
The value of the loan turn down after Musk ’s $ 44 billion takeover of Twitter – which he ’s since rename X – was completed , but the tidy sum is now in “ historical territorial dominion ” in term of poor performance …
Unstoppable . Innovation . Juggernaut .
The Macalope could list many , many other instances where pundits have given Apple just cosmically bad advice but …
Well , actually , let ’s do one more . You recognize , for fun . Or science . Or whatever .
Just a year before Apple was wisely suggest to make serial procreationist Elon Musk head of the society , it was advised to license one of its operating system . Now , it had been told for age that licensing macOS was a sure - fire winner . But this clip , it was not macOS . Oh , no , no , no .
“ Apple Should spread out iOS to China as Another iPhone Cut Looms , Says Rosenblatt ”
Just a monitor , Googlegives awayits operating system . Yet somehow Apple was go to be able-bodied to rake in bad bucks by license iOS to go more crappily on sub - received hardware . The reason for headache ?
… Samsung will launch a foldable screen smartphone and Chinese OEMs will launch a curved control panel smartphone in 2017 …
Boy , those foldables surely lease over the mart , did n’t they ? To say nothing of the megahit … uh , does that say “ curved instrument panel smartphones ” . Does anyone think back those ? The Macalope does n’t .
Instead , Apple did the opposite . It leveraged its ironware expertise to make its own processors for the Mac . Pretty sure no one would say that was a fault .
And the silver facing for this one ? The Macalope is pretty sure that was the last meter anyone gave Apple that advice again .
Now , even the Macalope is not resistant to armchair quarterback Apple . Sometimes you just ca n’t resist . The flesh is fallible . ( Just require Elon Musk . ) The difference of opinion is he does n’t propose it ’s the only way Apple can preserve itself .
Even still , it ’s a risky drug abuse to get into .
