1 year agoApple 3.0 exclusive: Ask me anything with Jean-Louis Gassée (video)
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Most of the session I had my video turned off, since Donna and I were listening to my iPhone in our family room with the iPhone placed between our two recliners, thus only giving a view of our ceiling. And that’s because our Comcast wifi chose that particular day and time to go down….
“Remember 1968?”
“Long Live The HomePod!”
Righteous, Brother Romeo.
After yesterday’s Zoom meeting, I happened to listen to a discussion about the HomePod on the “Accidental Tech Podcast” with Marco Armant (well-known app developer and audio enthusiast)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/accidental-tech-podcast/id617416468?i=1000514386339
(scrub in to the 31:11 mark)
He too remains a strong fan of what Apple achieved with the HomePod yet, with its discontinuation, ultimately arrived at roughly the same conclusion as Gassée — Apple applied too much engineering into a product that the general public wasn’t willing to dig a bit deeper for.
This is a cold realization as I take the stance that people should uplift their audio appreciation capabilities as that is where the true soul of music lies. To me it’s the genuine underlying reason why the entire AirPods line is so captivatingly successful.
I wonder also if Apple had instead marketed it as total audio for the home WITHOUT the “smarts”, if it might have then appealed to a market that it was better suited to fit.
I’ve already purchased one more and I might get yet one more to attain stereo matching in every location of my home.
Amen Romeo…“Long Live The HomePod!”
An excellent enhancement to being a Apple 3.0 subscriber.
I thought your points were particularily well made. You may have missed my earlier question which also addressed the “necessary stupidity” of Siri. Second question in.
BTW, I very much liked Mr. Gassée‘s response to my question concerning “machine learning”.
“Creeping mediocrity,” he replied.
Values–and how a culture expresses them–interest me. (Sadly, the term ‘DNA’ has become an overworked cliché.) So far, what Steve brought and what Tim sustains have enabled huge success.
As an AAPL long, I’ve come to think of it as an ‘heirloom stock.’ But I remain mindful how ‘greats’ have fallen in the past. (Cue Horace Dediu on disruption.)
Among others, I hope to look to investors here for a collective sense of the evolution of Apple’s culture. For what remains of my lifetime, there may be little risk in the stock. But for those who come after, who knows?
As Rachel Maddow might put it: “Watch this space.”