[aphroz]

Apple is not an innovative company.They are a marketing company. What do marketing teams do when they have a lot of money ? They start removing stuff, remove the wires, remove the inputs/outputs and kill the company. Good bye Apple, even this guy can't save you. I won't miss you.

[huebomont]

You can't just will this to happen by saying it. The reality is very different. Either their brainwashing works so well that tons of consumers AND other companies buy into it and follow along, or maybe they're onto something.

[briandear]

Are we trotting out that old trope again? Two words for you: Apple Watch. Nobody is even close to what they did with Watch and what they are doing with health. Look at the camera and photos app: on device ML. Look at the tech behind Memories for instance. They’re doing this without sending your photos to some privacy-invading server. Look at FaceId. Sure Samsung had facial recognition — but it could be fooled with a printed photo. Look at what Apple has done with AR. Their computational photography stuff is also incredible. But sure let’s lament the loss of a SCSI port and call it a marketing decision.

[aphroz]

Yes, I couldn't resist. I am sorry, but I have maybe seen 2-3 people wearing an Apple watch and never heard about Memories. Apple watch (and Siri) might be a thing in the US but definitely not in Europe or Asia. I feel like Apple have only 2 successful products: Iphone and Macbook. Their biggest success however is creating a cult and closing personal computer hardware (remember IBM/compatible).

[randomsearch]

And did closed turn out to be an invalid decision? Closed meant control, control meant more security and privacy and avoiding reliance on advertising revenue.

[aphroz]

Good marketing decision

[iainmerrick]

Why does everybody else copy them, then?

If it’s just clever marketing, you have to wonder why marketing is working so well compared to the innovation that other companies are presumably doing.