Google signs agreement with HTC

Re:Google signs agreement with HTC by LiweiZ on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:49PM (#15300461)

Apple has to push something new (but iOS apps with AR were there as late as around 2011) and major "next big thing" to play catching up. Apple as a creature is done. It is just following the phenomenon momentum founded by Jobs to maximize profit. Once the day it goes past the max profit tipping point, what is real will show up. Money is the quantitive fact that few would go against, once this fact changes, opinions will soon emerge. My personal thoughts.

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Re:Google signs agreement with HTC by jjrrmm on Thursday September 21, 2017 @03:04AM (#15301112)

Apple will bring out iVision or something like HoloLense/Google Glasses. Same story as like the iPod.

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Re:Google signs agreement with HTC by LiweiZ on Thursday September 21, 2017 @03:19AM (#15301178)

Hopefully so.

Apple under Jobs showed polished deliverables to customers. Without him, Apple demoed prototypes more, talked about plans and fields they worked on more and tried to pumped up confidence by giving out information more. It's been like this for a few years. Not a short time in the tech world.

They did regroup and formed a new foundation that is quite strong. Positioning at product and service for privacy alone has no competitors in the near future. And they have everything needed to make customers believe in them (on the other hand, do customers really have other quality and trustworthy alternatives?).

The best product after Jobs from Apple, to me, is AirPods. That's the only product makes me amazed and satisfied.

I'm actually a big fan of Apple's approach on making product and an iOS developer myself.

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Re:Google signs agreement with HTC by fhood on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:46AM (#15303928)

I really really had hoped that somehow, magically, Jobs' death wouldn't hurt Apple's trajectory, but things don't seem to be playing out that way.

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Re:Google signs agreement with HTC by simonh on Thursday September 21, 2017 @11:38AM (#15304526)

Right. They only managed a pathetic trippling in market cap since he died and have only dominated a single new industry (they're now the biggest watch company in the world by revenue, just from watches). How disappointing.

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Re:Google signs agreement with HTC by fhood on Thursday September 21, 2017 @11:55AM (#15304724)

Wasn't talking about financial trajectory.

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Re:Google signs agreement with HTC by simonh on Thursday September 21, 2017 @12:15PM (#15304946)

Ok, what then, Technology? None of the other handset makers are even close. 3D face recognition, computational photography, augmented reality, health, CPUs, security, privacy,display and build quality, App ecosystem. They're ahead of the pack across the board. The new multitasking, drag-and-drop and inter-app communications stuff in iOS 11 is so far ahead of Android it's almost cheating.

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