Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones
OT: Tim Cook&#x2F;Apple is on the wrong track. The entire line-up of a product company is fundamentally flawed and heading to nowhere:<p>Today was the first time, I saw the new iPad Pro in action in a shopping mall nearby. It was a lazy Tuesday evening and I was in shopping mood. The first thing I did was running Sun Spider in Safari. Not an up-to-date benchmark but still a good indicator for performance. This thing reached insane 119ms. Without having any noisy fans and a battery that runs for days. Then, there is a buttersmooth 120hz screen, also the first time I saw a hi-fps screen live and it&#x27;s so nice. All packed in some slick enclosure, thinner and lighter than any Surface Microsoft ever made.<p>I would have bought this device without thinking (this is what malls are for after all) and I really don&#x27;t care if it&#x27;s 1,000, 2,000 or even 3,000 bucks.<p>But tell me--what should I do with an iPad Pro? The OS is not just crippled but utterly useless for any real use case. You don&#x27;t have to be a pro.<p>I could work via SSH on a remote server, nah I can&#x27;t test properly without the major browser being installed or at least Safari&#x27;s dev tool. Maybe some mockups with Affinity Designer? It has the most responsive digitizer, so c&#x27;mon. Nope, the files are so big and exchange to my desktop goes always through a slow cloud, this feels like going back in time and juggling floppy disks. Maybe some Word? No, I prefer full-fledged Word. Contracts are too important to fiddle them together on a subpar Word, I don&#x27;t open Word for fun, I make or lose money with contracts. If I used this device the entire day I would also eventually get RSI from moving my hand up and down all the time (there is no Vimium for Safari).<p>This is what I mean, Tim Cook does not have this obsession with details like Jobs had. Let me not start with Macbooks, non-existing Mac Pros or odd, LG-branded screens. Steve thought all features to the end. Tim doesn&#x27;t and ships one half-baken product after another.