Apple Blows Out Its Own Brains in [Market-Ticker]

Posted 2012-09-20 22:42
by Karl Denninger
in Company Specific

Apple Blows Out Its Own Brains

Apple, you see, has this hard-on for Android and Google.

There's only one problem. Apple's a copycat company with a fanboi userbase. And now, in their hubris, they took on one of the reasons to have a smartphone in the first place, mapping functions, and totally screwed it up in their zeal to stick the knife in Google's back.

This is the Manhatten bridge -- which is now a roller coaster. There are landmarks that are in the wrong place as well -- ball parks that aren't where people left them, for instance.

Maps and mapping functions aren't just integral to one of the core functions of a smartphone (using it as a navigation device) but in addition tie into social media in a major way.

That Apple boned this, on top of Siri, which is one of the worst jokes ever in the user interface universe (for what it's worth Vlingo and Google's functionality in that regard are no better) but has been pushed as one of the reasons to buy an iPhone, leaves Apple with having managed to destroy one of the key features that make owning a smartphone worthwhile.

Worse, this same update was pushed to the iPhone 4S so you can't even evade this by not buying an iPhone 5 if you were foolish enough to let iTunes update you!

Oops.

Heh Cook -- that's you I smell frying over there in California!

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Stcm Posts: 1812 Incept: 2008-02-05	Nice baseball field on the Lower East Side. Never saw that before! ---------- Short-Term Capital Mismanagement - "When genius was never there to begin with!" 2012-09-20 22:47:05 Permalink
Stcm Posts: 1812 Incept: 2008-02-05	BTW - won't make much of a difference in stock price. Every hedge fund is counting on AAPL to pull them through. Sales of Iphone 5 look pretty good. C'mon, where you gonna put your money - treasury bonds? ;-) ---------- Short-Term Capital Mismanagement - "When genius was never there to begin with!" 2012-09-20 22:49:54 Permalink
Bsfootprint Posts: 960 Incept: 2011-02-27	AAPL $900. To da moon, Alice! ---------- When I hear central bankers are blowing bubbles, I like to picture a large, happy and well-endowed male chimp* named 'Bubbles'...* 2012-09-20 22:51:29 Permalink
Stcm Posts: 1812 Incept: 2008-02-05	Right, didn't JP Morg say that the Iphone would increase the GDP? Just buy that $849 phone. Must create a ton of jobs, right? ---------- Short-Term Capital Mismanagement - "When genius was never there to begin with!" 2012-09-20 22:53:12 Permalink
Fraudster Posts: 4170 Incept: 2011-05-10	This is not going to impact sales with the cult base this company has. ---------- *"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world."* - Napoleon Bonaparte *"Circulation ceases first at the outer edges [Europe and Japan]. It will take a while yet for the decay to reach the heart [America]."* - Foundation & Empire by Isaac Asimov 2012-09-20 22:58:49 Permalink
Ben Posts: 6163 Incept: 2009-10-09 The Distant, Glorious, Past	Won't matter, they don't see flaws or just gloss over them, same with Obama's fans. ---------- "Why are you going to learn French?" "Because I'm going to France," says Joe. "I'm from the future. You should go to China." 2012-09-20 23:26:32 Permalink
Soros Posts: 3098 Incept: 2007-08-31 La La Land	I'm flummoxed. Why would they sabotage their own product? Google has their own maps/streetview apps on the apple market, right? Just use those instead. Maybe I'm missing something from this story. ---------- So long and thanks for all the fish. 2012-09-20 23:39:43 Permalink
Mannfm11 Posts: 3530 Incept: 2009-02-28 DFW, Tx Online	Bennie is going to take care of that. They will be too poor to pay the phone bill. They are going to continue to lose market share and once people figure out they are flushing several hundred dearly needed dollars down the drain per phone, something else will prevail. I have a friend that is an apple nut. He paid, I think $3000 for an Apple laptop. Has trouble digging $20 up to go to the ballgame. Has an iPhone too. ---------- The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.---John Kenneth Galbraith 2012-09-20 23:50:18 Permalink
Mezcal Posts: 1831 Incept: 2007-08-04	This is actually pretty clever... ---------- "God knows who is a counter-party to whom in the mammoth international cluster*** of accounting fraud that passes for a commerce in capital."* Kunstler, 13 June 2011 2012-09-20 23:55:02 Permalink
Fraudster Posts: 4170 Incept: 2011-05-10	Very clever, but also very TRUE. I am ordering an S3 for my next phone. ---------- *"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world."* - Napoleon Bonaparte *"Circulation ceases first at the outer edges [Europe and Japan]. It will take a while yet for the decay to reach the heart [America]."* - Foundation & Empire by Isaac Asimov 2012-09-20 23:59:38 Permalink
Blackswan Posts: 5559 Incept: 2007-11-06 Just outside of Philly	Wow. This is like desktop computers 2009 vs. 2010. WTF. Upgrade cycle is full retard. Even the Galaxy touch phones for transfering files... when the **** am I going to do that? Anyway.. die off already. Smartphone pump is over. Apple TV are a bigger joke then 3d HDTV. Who wants an Apple TV other then the most douchebag Apple fanfag. ---------- Its checkmate. Everywhere its checkmate. Hugh Hendry 2012-09-21 00:07:49 Permalink
Poorsaver Posts: 364 Incept: 2008-05-20 Sunshine Tax State	Soros wrote.. I'm flummoxed. Why would they sabotage their own product? Google has their own maps/streetview apps on the apple market, right? Just use those instead. Maybe I'm missing something from this story. I don't own an iphone, but my friend who does is bitching about the maps feature since he downloaded IOS6 yesterday. Mainly because THEY REMOVED THE GOOGLE MAPS APP AND REPLACED WITH THEIR OWN! So you don't have a choice. ---------- "I'm going to need a hacksaw"----Jack Bauer "You can get killed walking your doggie!"----Vincent Hanna 2012-09-21 00:22:16 Permalink
Morla Posts: 815 Incept: 2009-11-09	Quote: Has trouble digging $20 up to go to the ballgame. Has an iPhone too. Now his iPhone will start to pay for itself $20 at a time by making him unable to find the ballpark! Ah, but seriously though this story is a nothing sandwich. I've seen some bad software launches, these things happen all the time, Apple doesn't have a magical amulet to prevent the occasional buggy launch. There are too many legitimate criticisms of tech manufacturers, like the whole slavery thing, to spend time taking pot-shots about CrApple fanboys being disappointed about buggy software. I dunno much about Siri, other than that it records everything you say to it and sends the audio to Apple.. Quote: Mainly because THEY REMOVED THE GOOGLE MAPS APP AND REPLACED WITH THEIR OWN! (Edit)Well, I didn't know that.. Classic Apple though, all hail the omniproprietary dark-age-ification of computing! FD: No position on Crapple. I only play with certain equities, and the tech sector sure ain't where I do that. ---------- Fear of govt IS the government.. Statism is a pack of unbacked threats; If govt gets out of control, ignore it and go about life as you see fit. Where's your crown, King Nothing? Last modified: 2012-09-21 00:36:02 by morla 2012-09-21 00:28:25 Permalink
Uncleoxidant Posts: 2200 Incept: 2007-07-10 Stumptown	Apple's map app is showing us the true reality of the future. That Manhatten bridge will melt down. There will be a ballpark there. Believe! Believe! ---------- I am not a consumer. I am a Citizen! 2012-09-21 00:31:22 Permalink
Nomullet Posts: 6819 Incept: 2007-11-11 SW	Looks like ideas are being replaced by clueless corporate thinking ---------- Don't confuse clear thinking with simplistic thinking. --Nomullet 2012-09-21 00:44:56 Permalink
Highside Posts: 17 Incept: 2008-10-15	Apple has really earned some justified hate with this Maps move (from one who likes Apple products). The 3D maps seem like the only thing they would be good for in the first place is a slick TV commercial. I want to see the slick TV commercial that features this nightmare: 2012-09-21 00:55:17 Permalink
Trades50 Posts: 4214 Incept: 2007-10-30 Land of Tax and Spend	It sure looks all F'd up. I would guess it's some place after major earthquake? Is that Apple's LSD app? ---------- When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson Last modified: 2012-09-21 01:09:45 by trades50 2012-09-21 01:05:55 Permalink
Poid Posts: 610 Incept: 2010-03-08	My favourite screw up at the moment is that they got the location of their own flagship Apple store in Sydney WRONG! They've placed it across the street from where it actually is in their maps. I think that fits in the "epic fail" category nicely! 2012-09-21 01:44:28 Permalink
Lumpeninvestor Posts: 2339 Incept: 2007-10-16 98072, USSA	Its bullish for construction as municipalities will be compelled by rabid Apple fans to actually re-construct things to match what is shown on the Apple maps. ---------- Distributing insolvency only destroys the last remaining islands of solvency in a bankrupt world. - Charles Hugh Smith 8/23/2012 2012-09-21 02:07:52 Permalink
Nomullet Posts: 6819 Incept: 2007-11-11 SW	"Gee let's think of some low hanging fruit to help sell iPhones. I know- let's build a Apple version of Google Maps!" ---------- Don't confuse clear thinking with simplistic thinking. --Nomullet 2012-09-21 02:08:03 Permalink
Etz Posts: 13886 Incept: 2007-06-26 LA	You assume sheapples would be able to tell the difference. Nice try ---------- Legal chicanery and beneficent darkness are the banker's stoutest allies - F.Pecora. 2012-09-21 02:09:17 Permalink
Mro Posts: 161 Incept: 2009-03-27 Toronto	It's the Salvador Dali Edition of Maps :) 2012-09-21 04:31:15 Permalink
Ben Posts: 6163 Incept: 2009-10-09 The Distant, Glorious, Past	Quote: He paid, I think $3000 for an Apple laptop. Has trouble digging $20 up to go to the ballgame. Has an iPhone too. Oh boy. Teh Stupid. It burns! ---------- "Why are you going to learn French?" "Because I'm going to France," says Joe. "I'm from the future. You should go to China." 2012-09-21 05:48:08 Permalink
Ckaminski Posts: 1569 Incept: 2011-04-08	I'm majorly****ed they pulled the YouTube app. There's something else at work here than just NIH... 2012-09-21 06:59:11 Permalink*

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