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Showing posts with label Apple TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple TV. Show all posts

Monday, April 16, 2012

4 Big Mistakes Made By Apple

In 2003, its market share price is lower than 50 dollars while in 2012, its market share price miraculously rises to over 600 dollars. Apple is announcing to the world how powerful it can be. Based on its excellent performance in the market, experts boldly predicted its share price will go beyond 1000 dollars this year.

In 2012, Apple has made two great events: the debut of The new iPad and the release of update to Apple TV. They are supposed to be used to enlarge Apple's advantages. However, things go to the opposite side.

People are not that crazy towards The new iPad after they find it is just an updated version of iPad 2, which leads to the drop in sales volume of The new iPad. As for AppleTV 2012, it is even worse since few minor modifications are done comparing to its predecessor.

However, all those things can't affect people's confidence towards the future of Apple's share price until the outbreak of the war between Amazon and Apple. Applenow is facing lawsuit over its iBook which is reported to have violated the price law.

The giant tycoon has never realized it would stop its pace by this small issue. Apple seems to be fragile and vulnerable. As a consequence, the share price of Apple begins to fall. However, those are not the biggest mistakes made by Apple. Now let's have a view at four big mistakes made by Apple.

1. The battery of iPhone 4S

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People criticizes Apple for lying to consumers on the duration time of the inserted battery of iPhone 4S. Apple tried to prolong the duration of the battery with its latest system but failed.

There is a big mistake made by Apple. According to some early users, they had informed Apple of the issue but received no satisfying reply.

2. Lawsuit over patent

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Apple seems to have involved in too many patent violation cases either as the accuser or the defender. Few weeks ago, it sued Motorola for five patent violations while Motorola fought back with three pattern violation charges of Apple. All those stop users from enjoying the product freely.

3. Ignorance to Apple TV

Apple TV

The potential market of Apple TV is quite large while Apple seems to ignore this point. Comparing to iPhone, iPad and iPod, the attention Apple TV gets is so little that Apple chooses to ignore our complains about Apple TV.

Anyway, this April was a good chance for Apple to correct this mistake but Apple refused to do so. So that means Apple TV is still a larger iPhone without apps that doesn't support Hulu. If you want to watch local videos with Apple TV, you need to convert them to mp4 file with Video Converter.

4. iClound

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iColund is a useful app with large potential market. However, it is not powerful; users can't store videos and music on it which makes it not so necessary. If Apple had enriched its functions, it would have been another best-sell app of Apple.

Anyway, Apple's future is still promising once it can solve all those issues and in the future, its products will be the dominators of high end digital product market.

The Evolution History Of Apple

In March, the debut of The new iPad has shown the influence of Apple. The news of The new iPad's release has occupied the headlines of major papers and websites for several days. Apple now has already exceeded Microsoft to be the company with the highest market share in scientific field.

The share price of Apple was lower than 50 dollars in 2003 while it elevated to over 620 dollars at present. Apple is well known for its high-end digital products like iPhone, iPod and iPad. Recently, Apple has debut its update to Apple TV and rumors about iPhone 5 is spreading as well. Experts even predicted that the share price of Apple will exceed 1000 dollars this year.

However, in 1990s, Apple is still a company threatened by bankruptcy due to years of failures in its market strategies. No one can image such a company will become a tycoon at present. So in order to unveil the success of Apple, we need to view the evolution history of Apple.

1. The glorious history

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Actually, it was Apple that laid the foundation for PC other than Microsoft. In 1976, Steve Jobs with another Steve built up a company named "Apple". Pretty soon, the company became popular and powerful in the market for its fist product: Apple II. Its release changed people's view towards traditional computer which were supposed to be big, heavy and good of nothing.

Apple II was the milestone in the evolution of personal computer for its simple operation, small size, cheap price and unique design. With the help of Apple II, Apple swept the world and became the symbol of personal computer. It even once imaged to make PC as popular as bike at that time.

In 1980, Apple made a new record of IPO with its 1.01 billion dollars of public offerings. In 1983, Apple ranked 291st in the list of top 500 companies in the world.

2. Miserable past

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In 1980s, IBM had dominated the personal computer market with IBMPC. In order to regain its position, Apple decided to challenge IBMPC with Macintosh. Apple paid so much attention to Macintosh, which proved to be a failure in the market, that it ignored the development of Apple III. Along with Macintosh, Apple III failed again.

In 1985, Apple met its first deficit in finance and Steve Jobs had to quit. However, Jobs' leave didn't make things better because the latter ten years witnessed various failures of Apple in market share. For example, Newton was made but failed to find potential consumers. Actually, even Apple had no idea of its potential consumers.

Things got worse and worse that Apple could only sold products to some specific consumers. At that time, Apple was rambling in the edge of bankruptcy. However, a man changed its situation.

3. Unprecedented success

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In 1997, Jobs became the CEO of Apple again and led Apple to unprecedented success since then. Ten year evolution of iPad and five year evolution of iPhone had made Apple world famous. Along with the increasing reputation goes the elevation of its share price. In 2012, its price share has already exceeded 600 dollars.

The success of Apple lies in its unique with advanced technologies attached. They are not only cool in appearance but also powerful in function. Apple just combines the best hardware with the best software together in its products. To some extent,, Apple represents technological innovations of digital products and that's the reason why its product can attract the world's attention.

After all those years' evolution, Apple not only gains its success, but also promotes the development of related field. For example, since iPhone can only support mp4 files, converters like Video Converter are designed to convert videos to mp4 files and Moyea SWF to iPhone Converter are designed to convert swf files to mp4 files.

Friday, April 13, 2012

Five Common Complains About Apple TV

This April witnesses the release of the update to Apple TV which disappoints those who have waited it for long. Before its debut, all the people are looking forward to the release of a new generation of Apple TV. However, Apple tells us all: "No, only update is available here!" However, even the update to Apple TV can't satisfy people.

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The update to Apple TV fails to solve those key issues concerned by users. It just makes some modifications over some small issues just like The new iPad, which is regarded as an updated iPad 2. People feel disappointed again just as they did when The new iPad was released.

With cool Airplay, grandeur Netflix and beautiful design, Apple TV is popular in the market. However there are some hurdles lying before Apple TV. Apple TV needs to solve at least five issues in order to please users. Now, let's have a view at five common complaints about Apple TV.

1. No app for Apple TV

One of user's complaint towards Apple TV lies in that there is no apps available for Apple TV. Without apps, how can you expect Apple TV to be powerful in function? Products like iPhone are popular because you can make it become powerful with various apps. So users always complain about Apple TV's lack of apps which makes Apple TV nothing but a powerful TV.

2. Fail to support Hulu

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Apple can support Netflix and the update to Apple TV enables the support of Netflix in Mexico. However, Apple refuses Hulu which confuses many users. According to some rumors, Apple does this because it intends to buy Hulu. However, before Apple manages it, it has already taken Hulu as its subsidy. According to the latest news, Apple will provide a service similar to Hulu. However, before it succeeds, why can't it support Hulu for a while?

3. Small Apple Remote

Apple Remote

The small remote is of such a little size that it is hand for a fat finger to operate it well. Why can't Apple make it larger with more buttons attached? People are really annoying when they have to do the same operation again and again due to a wrong click!

4. Support mp4 files only

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Like iPhone, iPod and iPad, Apple TV can only support video files with mp4 format. You have to convert videos to mp4 files with Video Converter. So it makes no difference with iPhone in terms of playing function. Apple TV is just a large-size iPhone when playing movies and it can't be as powerful as iPhone because there are no apps available.

5. No USB and SD card ports

No USB and SD card ports

So basically speaking, it is really troublesome for us to synchronize the video with iTune. However, you have to do it because Apple TV can't support USB or SD card. So just forget about plugging in your device and then watching movies with Apple TV. To some extent, Apple seems to be quite resistant to SD card because you can find the same defect in iPhone and iPad.

Whatever, we can just pray that Apple one day can hear our words and solve those five complains for us.