Apple's relationship with the press, customers, and dealers
tliet
– March 20, 2008 05:34AM
Although we don't live in the Apple is beleaguered times anymore, there's still enough to be said about them...
Transplanted once again...
The Gay Blade - 05:54pm Mar 31, 2000 EST
The Blade will attempt to transplant yet another rhetorical sapling here
on the Spork boards by copping a page from the delightful Brian Miller,
writing eloquently on the superannuated boards of yesteryear:
Brian Miller - 03:07pm Sep 30, 1999 PT
The man with a plan
My recent PowerBook G3 fiasco notwithstanding, I am beginning to wonder if
Apple is planning on abandoning "small fry customers." Consider the
evidence:
1) Apple's war with the Macintosh press;
2) Apple's slashing and burning of small local dealers, who often provided
the best service "in a pinch";
3) Apple's continued horrendous customer service breaches (individual Apple
Store orders cancelled in favour of large educaction/business orders).
Pulling all this evidence together and analysing it makes me feel far more
"worried" about Apple's future than any time under Amelio. Consider, for
instance, what all of those resources spent on lawyers threatening tiny Mac
sites could do in customer service and relations.
Before we consider Apple's "invasion" into the Fortune 1000 enterprise to
be ready, we have to focus on Apple's status in its own current markets. In
my view, there's a lot of "retrenching" to do before they're ready. They
can start by ceasing their intimidation of Mac publishers, letting the damn
Mac rags publish OS 8.6 on their cover disks, and spending a bit more time,
effort, and energy on a "satisfy the customer at all costs throughout the
organisation" policy. These are all core competencies they'll need before
they can even THINK of invading the big-enterprise space.
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Cloudscout
– August 03, 2012 09:49AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
We're struggling to get a bunch of legacy apps to work with Win7 in order to completely eliminate XP.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– August 05, 2012 05:29PM
El Jeffe
– August 06, 2012 07:18AM
What a journey.
my dog ate my cloud
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– August 22, 2012 04:06PM
I dunno if this was posted here before but apropos of nothing:
Samsung: Think slightly different...
In case you thought that was pure coincidence, Samsung provides
some more pure total coincidence...
PS I love the FAQ section of the team coco website and their very honest appraisal of worldwide copyright issues:
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I live outside the USA -- why can I watch some clips on TeamCoco.com, but not others?
It's those pesky legal restrictions again; they limit how many clips per day can be available in certain countries. On TeamCoco.com, look for the availability indicators immediately below the video player on the left side:
Worldwide: Viewable by everyone, everywhere!
US-Only: Viewable by users inside the United States only.
Select Nations Only: Sadly, not viewable in various countries, including Canada, Australia and Ireland.
Yeah, we know, those limitations are intensely annoying! If you're in Canada, your best bet is to watch CONAN on CTV.ca. If you're in Australia, Ireland, or another country where Team Coco clips are blocked, your best bet is to burn an entertainment lawyer in effigy.
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How can I watch CONAN on YouTube?
You can visit YouTube.com/TeamCoco, where as of February 2012, we cross-publish nearly all of the video clips you find on TeamCoco.com. Awesome, right? Well, unless you're in Australia, Ireland, or one of the other countries where Conan clips are blocked on YouTube. We know how annoying that is, but until America invades your country and makes you our 51st state, horrible-awful lawyers will continue to deprive you of most Conan video. Don't blame the messenger, dude!
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– August 31, 2012 06:57PM
DPBD!
This is childish...
Isn't there a legal tender requirement in the US that a business is only obliged to accept $20 worth of loose change in any payment?
(That's the case in Australia)
Cloudscout
– August 31, 2012 09:00PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
No, there's no such law here.
Regardless, the story is fake. Samsung won't be paying that billion dollars any time soon. They have a lengthy appeals process to go through first.
El Jeffe
– September 01, 2012 01:58AM
What a journey.
I got a laugh at Toyota Avalon chief engineer on Autoline After Hours this week. They crafted a way to finally break into the SKorean market. They are making the Avalon an all-USA product and now with the free trade agreements that Korea and USA (NA) are in, Japan can finally use this to make headway into SKorea. I personally see SK as too protectionist and the fact that they live predominantly because we stack our guns up in their country, a bit unfair. They would not be able to spend the money on their industries if they paid for their own protection... IN MY OPINION...
So, they should take their court penalties and STFU! (again, my opinion)
John Willoughby
– September 01, 2012 08:00AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
South Korea's got a pretty formidable army of their own. Our forces there are more of a tripwire, to make sure North Korea knows that we will be part of any adventures they want to initiate.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– September 04, 2012 04:13PM
Hmmm...
In my teenage years when I was a highly impressionable little bogan I really liked
Iron Maiden.
Anyhoo, I just thought I'd check out the prices for getting some of their back catalogue stuff.
Australian store: Old Albums $17.99. Songs $2.29 or $1.69...
US store: Old Albums $6.99 or $7.99. Songs $1.29 or $0.99...
WTF You price-gouging grab-asses?!? The exchange rate is not 45 cents!
With this sort of crappy pricing, is it any wonder that Aussies pirate so much?!?
johnny k
– September 04, 2012 06:21PM
The ghost of Steve Jobs doesn't like your taste in music.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/04/2012 06:21PM by johnny k.
YDD
– September 05, 2012 11:25AM
But you should be paid to listen to Rolf Harris on the digeridoo....
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– September 05, 2012 03:48PM
Yeah, I have no idea why I got nostalgic for some
80s vintage metal of questionable cultural value, I think as a kid I really liked the artwork and obviously was also completely tone deaf.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/05/2012 03:49PM by Tony Leggett.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– September 11, 2012 05:44PM
DPBD!
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/blogs/blunt-instrument/theres-something-rotting-apples-core-20120829-250wc.html
This little comment caught my eye:
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Maybe it's inevitable. Maybe there is just something within corporate culture, some drive towards profits, some commercial version of the will to power, that will always see companies return to a lowest common denominator, extracting as much money from as little effort as possible. It’s profitability, it’s efficiency, and it is rewarded by the market. Unique, difficult, brilliant, even unbalanced CEOs like Steve Jobs can impose their own vision on the company for a while, but in the end perhaps the underlying forces will always triumph.
Is this already happening? How long until the Amelios and the Spindlers and the Sculleys take over again
James DeBenedetti
– September 13, 2012 03:39PM
It's already happening. Jobs was an artist who hired other artists. Cook is an efficiency expert who will hire other efficiency experts. The problem is, while efficiency can be a form of art, art is not always efficient.
The first point of failure is an art form that manifests immediately - advertising (now formulaic: celebrity driven and focused vs. Jobs' abstract "feel good" ads). The second failure point will be a focus on "improving the numbers" in less profitable areas (retail, tech support). The third will be a decline in product quality and innovation. By that point, the focus will be on "brand management", "by the numbers", etc., and most of the best people will have left Apple for companies with more creative freedom.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– September 20, 2012 02:54PM
Ooops!
"What is
MobileMe er, Apple Maps supposed to do?"
--engineer gives answer-- "Then why the f**k doesn't it do that?"
Roger
– September 20, 2012 03:33PM
Yeah, it's really bad. I installed iOS 6 on my iPad to try out the new Maps and as a result I'm sticking with 5 on the phone, the device I use to navigate, for the foreseeable future or until a Google Maps app is available. It's a truly colossal downgrade.
Cloudscout
– September 20, 2012 04:16PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
If Google or Samsung had any balls, they'd get a commercial on the air THIS WEEKEND to capitalize on this.
John Willoughby
– September 20, 2012 04:35PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Think about what this says about Apple's relationship with Google. Apple was willing to figuratively amputate their own arm rather than continue their relationship with Google. What's the default search engine for Safari in iOS 6? I don't think that I can trust my iPhone, since I had selected Bing before the upgrade.
