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Re: Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System by IBM on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:44AM (#14545647)
Reminds me of this classic comment on Macrumors when the iPod launched [1]:

Sounds very revolutionary to me. :mad:

hey - heres an idea Apple - rather than enter the world of gimmicks and toys, why dont you spend a little more time sorting out your pathetically expensive and crap server line up? :mad: or are you really aiming to become a glorified consumer gimmicks firm? :mad:

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.5...

Re: Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System by mort96 on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:52PM (#14547496)
Well, that guy was right to be worried. Apple made extremely successful consumer products, but where are their servers? You could rightly argue that it's better for apple to focus on other stuff than servers, but it most definitely wasn't better for the people who depended on their server hardware and software.
Re: Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System by badsectoracula on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @01:18PM (#14546513)
Didn't people said the same thing about iPhone, that Apple would fail if they enter in the already oversaturated phone market and they should stick with what they do best instead?
Re: Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System by izacus on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @03:32PM (#14547857)
I'm sure people said negative things about Pippin, iTunes Ping and other products as well. Beware of survival bias.
Re: Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System by bvi on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:06PM (#14547070)
Indeed. Can't wait to look back at this thread 10 years from now.
Re: Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System by maneesh on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @03:17PM (#14547730)
The only difference is Jobs and Cook
Re: Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System by charlesism on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @06:25PM (#14549190)
Tim wasn't CEO when the iPod launched.