Well this is Apple's first big new product foray in the post Jobs era and it's flopped.
It's flopped for a reason Jobs would never tolerate, a lack of a unique vision that focuses on a consumers simple human need for a product that requires an immense but reachable extension of current technologies.
This is not a good sign for Apple. It's been several years and there's been nothing innovative big or small out of the behemoth. Elon Musk has run off with Jobs' mantle and Apple is left dithering on a mountain of cash. Now Amazon's Echo/Alexa is a product that would have had Jobs smiling.
At least that's how it looks to me though I would be happy to be proved wrong.
And Apple has been doing product research for years even in early years, with phones and other desk devices that never saw the light of day. Apple has cash, they tried something, old news.
It's flopped for a reason Jobs would never tolerate, a lack of a unique vision that focuses on a consumers simple human need for a product that requires an immense but reachable extension of current technologies.
This is not a good sign for Apple. It's been several years and there's been nothing innovative big or small out of the behemoth. Elon Musk has run off with Jobs' mantle and Apple is left dithering on a mountain of cash. Now Amazon's Echo/Alexa is a product that would have had Jobs smiling.
At least that's how it looks to me though I would be happy to be proved wrong.