Does it ever strike you as odd that the Macalope can ascertain clean heart to charge his antler into every day ? How is it that fairly much every sidereal day of the week there is someone who is eager to step up ( down ? ) and write something stunned about Apple ? And how do these people think it reflects on them ?
The Macalope does n’t have an solvent , and he ’s not trusted he wants to look a gift Equus caballus in the rima oris . After all , it ’s job security measures .
Which brings us to evade investment company manager Doug Kass , who is here to distinguish us about“Apple ’s Cycle of Abuse . ”
The material vilification , Doug , is read your Apple “ analysis . ”
Woz ’s literary criticism , which Kass quotes , is over the screen size of the iPhone 5 .
I wish they had made a modest and a large version of the iPhone ; that would have been great for me .
The iPhone 5 is literally small than the iPhone 4 and 4S. Do the mathematics . Only the filmdom is larger . Now , maybe he need a 3.5 - column inch screen iPhone 5 that would be even lowly , but Apple ’s strategy is to make one current generation of the iPhone . And , oh , hey , look , it ’s worked pretty well . But Woz wants a pony .
Kass :
haughtiness has been the subject of some of my criticism latterly on Apple . ( It is also often the ruin of many troupe . )
Really . Arrogance . And here the Macalope thought it was things like sale , revenue , and profit . Who knew that business psychoanalysis was really more about psychology than basic principle ?
Reminder : This man make do a hedging fund .
So , Kass ’s conclusion is that it ’s high-handedness that drives Apple ’s decisiveness to add features on its own terms , when they make sense , instead of jamming them into phones just to turn back them off on a list . Do n’t hold back for battery life to catch up to screen door size , just stop shipping Retina displays or make a giant honking phone !
Ohhh , you intend there ’s a swop - off and this is n’t a free , all - you - can - eat candy store ?
Also , if you believe the current Apple form gene is the best answer and Apple wo n’t or ca n’t do a large - concealment gimmick ( and will hold fast to one earphone at a time for monetary value reasonableness ) , what is the next iPhone going to have that will really matter and get customers excited to buy it and help the fellowship gain extra portion ?
Is gain ground contribution Apple ’s goal ? Seems like its goal is to make a crapload of money .
Is the bulk of the introduction done ? And , yes , I know it ’s easygoing to say that Apple always thinks of something Modern , but the reality is that the last few iterations of iPhone have been evolutionary and not rotatory — and , arguably , they now remand the market .
You could always argue they lagged behind the market . the great unwashed have been doing that for five twelvemonth . The first iPhone only had EDGE ! It did n’t have a replaceable battery ! Total passel killer !
It ’s stupefying how some analysts will simply cling to this checkbox mentality no matter how many times we point out that Apple does n’t operate that way . And the company does n’t seem any bad for not seek to get into a stunned arms backwash .
Another topic I would raise is how unfriendly Apple ’s provider have been to their employee .
Ofcourseyou would . After all , taste to throw everything against the wall to see what stick is your shtik .
Suppose a Wal - Mart provider was impeach of these conditions .
Suppose the company thatlocked its own prole into stores overnightwas accused of havingsuppliersthat maltreat employee ? Gosh , what would the fork be ? !
In my opinion , Apple is hypocritical — the party is every moment theabusive monopolistthat it once accuse Microsoft MSFT of being …
That link is to James B. Stewart ’s hi - larious piece warning that Mapgate could raise antitrust concerns , a pieceGlenn Fleishman deftly disassembledwhen it was published .
Hang on , though . Kass is n’t done with his ridiculous rant . Turns outyou’repart of the trouble , too .
And Apple ’s customers are also hypocritical by continuing to purchase Apple ’s product and thereby supporting this abusive behavior .
Right . We should wholly be buy stuff from company that are n’t so chesty as to ship earphone with 4 - inch screens in a 16:9 aspect proportion and whose suppliers are all site in the actor ’s paradise known as Magical Fairy Candycaneland .
