|
|
||||
 I’ve been meaning to comment on this very interesting story from the Wall Street Journal last week regarding Amazon opening up retail stores. I’ve been going against the grain for years now predicting that this would happen. I started predicting that Amazon would eventually veer into having their own stores when everyone in tech was predicting the opposite. They were all saying that bricks-n-mortar stores were going the way of the dinosaur. I said “BS”.
 In the last few days I’ve stumbled across a couple of stories that illustrate perfectly the rottenness of the Apple reporting community. I’ve written in the past about how many of the Apple “journalists” are a bunch of shills for the developer community but even I didn’t think that they could be this bad.
 It’s almost a true statement for me to say that the only thing I really want from the next iPhone is a 120hz refresh rate for the screen. This feature is that good.
MacOS Is Going Away  It was quite the splash of cold water to the face this week for the Mac fans. The long-time Mac friendly business Agilebits announced that they were dropping their native Mac app 1Password in favor of a cross-platform electron app. There are more hot takes on this than you count, but the bottom line which everyone agrees on is this, Agilebits didn’t see the Mac market as worth the effort.
 I was listening to the podcast Upgrade with Jason Snell and Myke Hurley this week and I honestly don’t know how Jason didn’t just start banging his head against the wall listening to Myke. Myke seems intent on closing his eyes to reality. Anytime that Jason brought up a fact, Myke refused to engage and simply responded with “No one understands that” or “that doesn’t matter”. How can you reason with someone who refuses to discuss the facts?
 The intelligence firm Omdia has come out with their latest analysis of the state of affairs in the smart speaker market and it’s not looking good for Amazon. Compared to the same quarter last year, Amazon’s market share has shrunk over 31%. Just as I predicted about 2 or 3 years ago, the seemingly unstoppable march of the Amazon Echo would eventually get reeled in by Apple and Google.
 Less than 2 months ago I had written about Apple’s collective dislike of wires and how that may relate to their vision of future iPad support. And now, lo and behold, there are leaks that Apple is working on monitors that incorporate the A13 chip from the iPhone 11. Here is an excerpt from what I wrote in June.
 I gotta hand it to Disney. They reeled me in like a masterful angler. After finishing their latest great TV show, Loki, I think my family would revolt if I tried to cancel our subscription.
|
Robert PerezManufacturing and distribution analysis since 1993. 
Perezonomics is available in Apple News
Archives
October 2024
|
RSS Feed