brucemc

potatoman said:

I bet the colours are coming as a refresh to the original, ‘cheaper’ AirPods. They are rumoured to be refreshed too, and Apple have a history of selling the cheaper products in the line up in different colours (iPod mini/nano/shuffle, iPhone 5C/XR/11). It allows the more expensive model to be marketed as premium, while the cheaper product appeals to its own market. In this case, they could get a second (or third) breath of life out of the original AirPods.

Seriously though, if they offered the classic AirPods in the iPhone XR and 11 colours, just before the holiday season, they would sell LIKE CRAZY.

hammeroftruth said:

bc2009 said:

Kinda hard to make the argument that the iPhone 11 is better in every way than the iPhone X when it still does not have some features of iPhone X (including an OLED screen and a 2x zoom lens).  Also, you repeatedly say the price of iPhone 11 is $650 when it is really $699.

iPhone 11 is a great value for all the technology you get (just like iPhone XR was last year), but an article that repeatedly harps on how others were wrong should get some basic things right (including the grammar in the title).

This article reads like a diatribe from somebody who can't wait to say "I told you so" to the whole internet and then proceeded to hastily pound the keyboard as fast they could.

DED IMHO has gone from commentator to Apple apologist.

I don’t remember the writer of Roughly Drafted turning a blind eye to Apple’s shortcomings. 

The reality is right now, there aren’t a lot of people who will be willing to pay $1k for a smartphone, whether it’s Apple or Samsung. Just read some of the comments on sites that are reviewing the Samsung Note 10, especially the 5G version. 

Apple had to do something to get more people to upgrade rather than hold on to their devices even longer.  Dropping the price of the iPhone 11 $50 cheaper than the XR was a start, including a free year of Apple TV+ family helps, but there are still plenty of iPhone users who are not loyal to Apple and this is what affects the bottom line. 

In the days days before the iPhone, Apple loyalists were the ones keeping Apple profitable, and in turn Apple made products we loved.
Once the iPhone was released, people
who never bought anything Apple were flashing their devices around as if they were a status symbol of their wealth, taste or intelligence. It’s popularity was it’s attraction, not it’s ease of use, or how powerful it can be. 

Apple was addicted to the attention and started  releasing more and more products that while were still attractive to Apple loyalists, they also had things that they didn’t like about them, like soldered memory and hard drives and plenty of quality programs that dealt with issues that Apple should have predicted. It didn’t affect sales, Apple was like a bear catching salmon during spawning season, it just can’t miss. 

Now, people are still weary of trusting Apple after that stupid battery replacement program. 
They don’t want to upgrade for 1k or even $700. You can try to spin it and give the customer the monthly cost because that’s more  palatable, but customers are not stupid. They played that game already with the carriers.

There are millions of iphone users who don’t really use their device to its potential and they are realizing that. This is why they are willing to abandon Apple and buy a cheap android phone.

So now Apple has to win their business all over again. Apple retail isn’t prepared to explain why an iPhone is better than other devices. They don’t have Apple loyalists as employees anymore, they have more people who think it’s cool to work there but don’t know enough about Apple products.   

wallym said:

Various price points, so that is good.  Wish they could push down to a lower price point on the low end, but that isn't the Apple way.

bigtds said:

Cool watch but 18hrs battery life is still pretty bad. 

andrewVonPelt said:

No word on the processor?