lostkiwi

AKer said:

Where is Optimus?  It's currently one of the only players that can play HDR content, in HDR, on the new Macbook Pros.  I love VLC and IINA, but they just tone-map HDR content down into SDR when you play an HDR file on them.  It looks flat and dull compared to Optimus.

I had a peek at that. It looks good, but I don’t want to email someone my credit card details to get a licence. Just seems too insecure, but if he used a payment processor I was familiar with then sure I would give it a whirl. 

Come on Apple - you have the kinks ironed out, how about releasing it to the rest of the world?  
NZ wouldn't complain about "muh sexism' if we were the next country to get the card!  

tmay said:

anantksundaram said:

tmay said:

rotateleftbyte said:

lkrupp said:

 I’ve been an Apple user since 1982 and have experienced firsthand the negativity and hatred of Apple by so many pundits, analysts, and self appointed experts over the years.

It is just the same w.r.t. Electric Vehicles. There are big players behind a lot of anti-EV rhetoric possibly Big-oil/coal. They are spending huge amounts of money to discredit EV's as a whole and in particular Tesla.

There will be people looking at making billions taking down Apple, Amazon and the rest.

The big automakers are committing hundreds of billions of dollars to electrics, and in case you were unaware, half of the Koch Brothers died yesterday. The oil industry is still a powerful entity, but coal is on its deathbed for power production.

Of note, Tesla isn't in a strong position to fight off the big automakers. Case in point is the Porsche Taycan, which competes head on with the the Model S, Jaguar iPace which competes withe the Model X, and a number of Model 3 competitors, especially the Nissan Leaf.

The I-Pace is is pretty much dead man walking, at this point.

As to the Taycan, I'll hold my verdict until it has spent a few months in real-world conditions. And, the "big" automakers have so far repeatedly and badly over-promised/under-delivered. I don't know whether and how long Tesla will last (I am guessing they'll bought out at some point by the likes of a Google), but they do seem to be quite far ahead of the EV game as of now.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastianblanco/2019/07/23/falling-model-s-and-x-sales-mean-teslas-margins-are-getting-squeezed/#46ebad932ab8

"The Wall Street Journal reports on sales data from the Dominion Cross-Sell report, which shows that Model S registrations were down 54 percent in California last quarter. California is Tesla's largest market, with 40 percent of Model S sales taking place in that state in 2018. Model X sales were also down 40 percent in California in the second quarter of 2019, Dominion found. The WSJ says that changes to which Tesla models are the most popular are going to, "threaten Tesla's growth goals and profit ambitions."

I would be impressed if Tesla could survive on Model 3 sales alone. They can't.

There were many whispers in the Telsa fandomsphere (of which I am a member) that Tesla internally debated whether to cease production of the S & X to focus more on the 3 and the upcoming Y.  The Y should be a bigger seller than the 3 as it is a crossover rather than a sedan like the 3.  Also by the end of the year the Shanghai factory should be online but of course bulk production will take some time after that.
Many are fairly confident Telsa should do well.  If you don't feel the same way that is totally fine - it is not really up to us after all :-)

Cool to see that Apple is branching out with some more international distribution of the HomePod.

I will be interested to see how it sells in Japan.  From my brief time there in the past I am aware of how many people live in quite a confined space.  The HomePod has excellent bass, but this bass has a tendency to go straight through walls to annoy the neighbours.  I haven't bought one for this reason.

The Japanese are generally a very thoughtful and considerate people - will the possibility of annoying the neighbours stop them from buying the HomePod too?
Appreciate any thoughts from any Japanese posters on the board.  

Cheers

Sounds fishy to me. 
I doubt that Apple would bring AirPods 3 early an entire year. 
Perhaps one or two competitors in this space are seeding stories hoping to stall Apple’s growth in this segment.
It hints at “don’t buy AirPods 2 now, just wait a few months until the 3 comes out. While you are waiting, have you considered the new Samesung HairPods 2, half the price of Apple?..”