{"id":4391,"date":"2016-06-18T05:26:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T21:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/18\/why-apples-biggest-new-bets-havent-paid-off-yet\/"},"modified":"2016-06-18T05:26:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T21:26:28","slug":"why-apples-biggest-new-bets-havent-paid-off-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/18\/why-apples-biggest-new-bets-havent-paid-off-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Apple&#039;s biggest new bets haven&#039;t paid off yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f119715%2fapple_watch\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/iRNW9iSVsZkgPZGnTgBkF-DqTL0=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F119715%2Fapple_watch.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Why+Apple%27s+biggest+new+bets+haven%27t+paid+off+yet&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F17%2Fapple-biz-please%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F17%2Fapple-biz-please%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The big theme of Apple&#8217;s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/13\/everything-apple-wwdc\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Worldwide Developers Conference<\/a> this week was change.<\/p>\n<p>Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/15\/apple-watch-ui-fail-watchos3\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">overhauled the clunky look and feel<\/a> of its Apple Watch software barely a year after the product launched. It <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/13\/apple-music-redesign-wwdc\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">redesigned Apple Music<\/a> to be simpler to, you know, find and listen to music. And the company <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/13\/apple-pay-online\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">expanded Apple Pay to the web<\/a> so it&#8217;s not longer solely dependent on the slower adoption of retail stores.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It may be easy to write-off these changes as evidence that Apple messed up its big new product categories, but longtime Apple analysts have a different take.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">&#8220;When we look back on history, we tend to be very polite and think that the iPhone from the first version was the perfect device,&#8221; says Neil Cybart, who runs Apple analysis site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboveavalon.com\/\">Above Avalon<\/a>, in an interview this week with <i>Mashable<\/i>&#8216;s Biz Please podcast about all things Apple, which you can stream below or download on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/biz-please\/id1082862434?mt=2\">iTunes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/biz-please\">Stitcher.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">&#8220;In reality, we are going to see these changes and these small pivots.&#8221;<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/17\/apple-biz-please\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1466193681' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1466193681'><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/KJO5KO9uvxg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big theme of Apple&#8217;s annual Worldwide Developers Conference this week was change. Apple overhauled the clunky look and feel of its Apple Watch software barely a year after the product launched. It redesigned Apple Music to be simpler to, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/18\/why-apples-biggest-new-bets-havent-paid-off-yet\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}