Про интервью Кука на Д11
Не знаю, смотрели вы или нет, но стоит посмотреть. Я когда смотрел, прям удивлялся тому, что Тим почти на все вопросы отвечает, ничего не стесняясь. А сегодня вот послушал очередной выпуск самого лучшего подкаста , и там Марко Армент и Джон Сиракьюса как раз обсуждают это интервью (где-то с 40:00).
Оказывается, кому-то из журналистов показалось, что Тим Кук не ответил особо ни на какие вопросы. Марко:
I think that’s all crap. I think he said quite a lot, and he said it in the Apple way, in the Tim Cook way, but I think he said quite a lot of interesting things.
Джон:
He’s never gonna say say, so there are reporters who have no idea, just generic reporters who go through it and go on «it doesn’t seem like he said anything». But for people who were following every single fart that comes out of Apple, when you ask him «What do you think about big screens? I guess you guys are making one», whatever, and the first thing that comes out of his mouth is «well, we are not making one yet», I mean, like, that’s the answer! That’s the biggest answer you are ever gonna get. Even Steve Jobs was never that open, even on his wildest days. What he’s saying is perfectly true: we are not making one yet, we are not ruling it out for the future, whatever. He doesn’t say that if they don’t have a larger screen phone in the planning stages already.
Little things like that were dropped everywhere. About timelining the television, timelining anything that’s wearable, it reminds me of Steve Jobs way before the iPhone. People were asking Apple about PDAs, that was a big thing to do. It was like, «Is Apple gonna make a PDA?» […] Apple wouldn’t give answers and no comment, but at certain point Steve Jobs said to some reporter: «We believe that phones is where the future of this business is gonna be». Boom! Apple’s making a phone. That’s all you needed. […] When you are making a statement like this to a reporter you might as well come out and say exactly what you are doing. […] For people who are reading the tealeaves it’s all out there in the open in his answers.
Марко:
I would say specifically, he seemed to confirm in his Tim Cook and in the Apple way, he seemed to confirm that they are working on some kind of watch-like device that includes multiple types of sensors and serves multiple functions. Didn’t you get that impression?
Джон:
Yeah, he said: «Wearable, oh yeah, that wearable stuff, I think there must be something to that, it’s a really interesting area».
Марко:
«But they have to do multiple things, they can’t just do one thing, they have to have multiple sensors». He is looking to replace that Nike FuelBand on his wrist [...] I think that was a very, very clear, not even a hint, that was like beating you over the head: «We are doing something like a watch».
Ну да, тут я вообще офигел в интервью от открытости. Чуть позже Джон:
If you would ask him what Apple was thinking of making a car, his answer would have not been «the car is the space that is really interesting, I think a car made by Apple could be really interesting and will have to use multiple sensors...» No!
Там дальше у Кука ещё были рассуждения о том, что никто не носит часы уже давно, но вывод из этого не «поэтому нам не интересно», а «поэтому должна быть какая-то причина, которая заставит людей их надеть, они должны быть достаточно полезны». То есть намёк как бы на то, что «мы-то знаем, как сделать, чтобы все начали носить часы» (и это не «показывать текущее время»). Ну, короче, просто слушать надо внимательно. Марко и Джон об этом тоже рассуждают.
Ну, кстати, если вы до сих пор не подписались на их подкаст, то я вообще не знаю.