On John Gruber's latest podcast he says he's heard second hand that Apple is still having issues with bugs and battery life with ?Watch. He said he would be surprised if it ships in March. If that's the case it really makes me think they announced it last year to appease Wall Street more than anything. Tim Cook promised new product categories in 2014 and if all Apple announced was ?Pay I think the stock would have taken a beating.
They announced it last year to allow developers time to create, integrate, or modify apps to work with existing products and or the watch.
In response to the absence of a translucent logo, I'm surprised no one has considered that the rumored iPad Pro and '12' Inch MacBook Air could be the same thing... Meaning it could act as a traditional laptop, but can also detach from the keyboard that transforms it into a tablet, similar to the Surface Pro. When you consider this it makes perfectly good sense why they would not put a translucent Apple logo on it, seeing as all current iPad's do not have them. There's your iPad Pro and MacBook Air all-in-one!
I mentioned that it could be for an 12"-ish iPad, with the presumed usage being side-by-side iPad apps, hence the turned logo. I didn't mention a convertible device as I'm not sold on that concept after seeing the MS Surface and Asus Transformer.
For starters, how about a major refresh of the Apple TV. The 12" MacBook Air with Retina Display should be a huge hit, as will be the iPhone 6s or 7. Apple Pay will continue to make significant inroads, and maybe a 3D iPhone screen or a full size Apple TV is in the works, I trust Apple's innovative abilities; I just am not convinced that the Apple Watch (or the 12" iPad) will be big sellers after the initial excitement dies down.
My questioning the level of success of the Apple Watch isn't exclusive to Apple: It's the whole sector that I'm referring to. Where's the "gotta have it" feeling? And will people want to recharge their watch every day or two? I think this is a market that companies believe the consumer really wants and may be surprised. Remember how wearing 3D glasses was going to be a big hit, only to belatedly discover people don't want to wear glasses.
For starters, how about a major refresh of the Apple TV. The 12" MacBook Air with Retina Display should be a huge hit, as will be the iPhone 6s or 7. Apple Pay will continue to make significant inroads, and maybe a 3D iPhone screen or a full size Apple TV is in the works, I trust Apple's innovative abilities; I just am not convinced that the Apple Watch (or the 12" iPad) will be big sellers after the initial excitement dies down.
My questioning the level of success of the Apple Watch isn't exclusive to Apple: It's the whole sector that I'm referring to. Where's the "gotta have it" feeling? And will people want to recharge their watch every day or two? I think this is a market that companies believe the consumer really wants and may be surprised. Remember how wearing 3D glasses was going to be a big hit, only to belatedly discover people don't want to wear glasses.
"For starters, how about a major refresh of the Apple TV."
I have purchased a number of iPads since their introduction and I wanted to love them but I just didn't. Personally, I find them quite frustrating to use except for very casual reading, mostly while traveling, keeping up with the news, entertainment type web surfing and maybe quick email or messaging, but even in that capacity I still prefer a regular Mac notebook or simply just an iPhone. The slipping sales figures are no surprise to me. Nice idea but the reality is that the platform is too limited for most professional or educational uses. iPad just isn't good enough to replace a MacBook, but I still carry both whenever I travel. I'm not sure why I bother with the iPad. My daily activities are, on the go with an iPhone or sitting at desk with a MBP. I don't often find a need for that in between iPad scenario.
My iPhone 6+ has essentially replaced my iPad Mini. It now serves as a backup for my Air, but I wouldn't want to use it for long as a main machine, at least not without a real keyboard.
Doing what he deems right for Apple shareholders (a.k.a. "the people who own the company he runs") is a very, very different thing than caring what random Wall Street analysts say. None of Apple's recent leadership have ever publically given half a shit what Wall Street analysts spew except for perhaps the CFO on quarterly earnings calls, and even then not many shits were given.
I never said analysts. Cook said Apple would announce new product categories in 2014. Had September and October come and gone and the only 'new' thing we got was ?Pay I think the stock would have taken a beating.
There's a million reasons Apple announced it at the time that they did, including stemming the sales of other smartwatches in the holiday season and subsequent months, as well as getting developers ready for the product, both in terms of ideas and APIs. In the context of this product, this announcement made sense. Apple shouldn't try to determine what it "typically" does when making decisions, it should make the best decisions for that specific scenario taking all factors into account. The timing seemed and felt right, for a myriad of reasons. It's a new product category, and it made sense for Apple to show it off on their own terms instead of invariably leaking the closer they got to launch.
Yes this all makes sense. Though I still think the expectation was/is to start shipping in Q1. So if that doesn't happen then I think it's clear some of the issues Apple is attempting to solve are proving more difficult than they expected. In that Bloomberg cover story on Tim Cook Jony Ive did say this is the most difficult project he's ever worked on at Apple. It still blows my mind that the chip inside this thing will be more powerful than the chip inside the first iPad.
I guess the question is at what point does Apple decide they have to ship something. With this product I think first impressions are going to be more important than ever. Apple doesn't want first impressions to be buggy software and worse than expected battery life. If Apple is holding an event for this (and perhaps some other stuff too) it would be nice if they could time it to take some of the air out of MWC. Perhaps send out invites that week?
In response to the absence of a translucent logo, I'm surprised no one has considered that the rumored iPad Pro and '12' Inch MacBook Air could be the same thing... Meaning it could act as a traditional laptop, but can also detach from the keyboard that transforms it into a tablet, similar to the Surface Pro. When you consider this it makes perfectly good sense why they would not put a translucent Apple logo on it, seeing as all current iPad's do not have them. There's your iPad Pro and MacBook Air all-in-one!
The surface failed. Those laptop-tablet hybrids failed. OS X wasn't built for touch.
In response to the absence of a translucent logo, I'm surprised no one has considered that the rumored iPad Pro and '12' Inch MacBook Air could be the same thing... Meaning it could act as a traditional laptop, but can also detach from the keyboard that transforms it into a tablet, similar to the Surface Pro. When you consider this it makes perfectly good sense why they would not put a translucent Apple logo on it, seeing as all current iPad's do not have them. There's your iPad Pro and MacBook Air all-in-one!
The base of the display shown in the image doesn't look easily detachable. There's also the aspect ratio to think about. The old Airs were 16:9, these look like 16:10 and the iPad is 4:3. There's also no home button. I don't think the hybrid route is on the cards for Apple at all.
I wonder if they've pulled the edges of the display in like this:
The non-glass part shown in the photo will be where the hinge goes but I can't make out the edges of the panel border. Shrinking the edges a bit would let them fit a larger display into a smaller form factor and would match more with their iPad line.
Gorgeous Apple Watch faces...
I predict that the most popular Apple Watch will be the 42 mm stainless steel + black sports band.
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In terms of unit sales? I'd think it would be something in ?Watch Sport simply because of price, but I agree the 42mm version will be the most popular size.
It impresses me what portion of the appleinsider readers are actually invested in apple (as I am). We use applr products and have substantial investment in the company. We have come to predict the obvious ups and down of the stock based on nonsensical analyst sentiment and click-bait articles.
The bellweather for us to worry about would be dramatically worsening sentiment on this forum... If people here were jumping ship on Apple, it really would be the canary in the coalmine so to speak.
As long as this forum remains in "positive" fanboi outlook, I will hold onto my stock.
On a side note, I really do like my iphone 6 except for the 1 second delay between answering the phone and actually connecting to a voice on the other side. Anyone else having this delay?
Ben Bajarin tweeted that he thinks KGI numbers are on the high side. He thinks the highest number Apple could report would be 70M. He also thinks it's possible Apple sold more phones in China last quarter than the United States.
That's what I was thinking recently. Sounds like it. And iPad Pro sounds dumb as a mass market device. Unless it's like the Slate.
The 12" MBA sounds real to me. A thinner and lighter notebook will sell like hot cakes and make Apple lots of money.
An iPad Pro could be very useful for many professionals. It would be great for musians. Who would need sheet music any more? I'm sure there are many other uses if it is thin and lite enough.
How many iPhones will need to have been sold for the AAPL stock price to blow past 118/119? Of course one never knows,
I just think it will be an enormous, jaw-dropping number that nobody expects. I sure hope it is! I expect it to be.
Maybe the higher the number the more stocks go down. People will buy if they feel there will be growth. Higher numbers could mean to some people that apple has hit the apex. It's of course psychology. I bought into a Vanguard energy fund. After it went down by a lot due to energy prices. It will go up. Wait until oil doubles again. There is no guarantee but oil is a finite resource and what goes down in price goes back up. I'm down now but no one knows where the bottoms are. It's coming back up though. However Apple sounds like a mature dividend stock.
Ben Bajarin tweeted that he thinks KGI numbers are on the high side. He thinks the highest number Apple could report would be 70M. He also thinks it's possible Apple sold more phones in China last quarter than the United States.
What! only 70M, Apple is obviously, without a doubt, doomed. Close up shop little fruit company, you're time is up... ;-).
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On John Gruber's latest podcast he says he's heard second hand that Apple is still having issues with bugs and battery life with ?Watch. He said he would be surprised if it ships in March. If that's the case it really makes me think they announced it last year to appease Wall Street more than anything. Tim Cook promised new product categories in 2014 and if all Apple announced was ?Pay I think the stock would have taken a beating.
They announced it last year to allow developers time to create, integrate, or modify apps to work with existing products and or the watch.
I mentioned that it could be for an 12"-ish iPad, with the presumed usage being side-by-side iPad apps, hence the turned logo. I didn't mention a convertible device as I'm not sold on that concept after seeing the MS Surface and Asus Transformer.
For starters, how about a major refresh of the Apple TV. The 12" MacBook Air with Retina Display should be a huge hit, as will be the iPhone 6s or 7. Apple Pay will continue to make significant inroads, and maybe a 3D iPhone screen or a full size Apple TV is in the works, I trust Apple's innovative abilities; I just am not convinced that the Apple Watch (or the 12" iPad) will be big sellers after the initial excitement dies down.
My questioning the level of success of the Apple Watch isn't exclusive to Apple: It's the whole sector that I'm referring to. Where's the "gotta have it" feeling? And will people want to recharge their watch every day or two? I think this is a market that companies believe the consumer really wants and may be surprised. Remember how wearing 3D glasses was going to be a big hit, only to belatedly discover people don't want to wear glasses.
For starters, how about a major refresh of the Apple TV. The 12" MacBook Air with Retina Display should be a huge hit, as will be the iPhone 6s or 7. Apple Pay will continue to make significant inroads, and maybe a 3D iPhone screen or a full size Apple TV is in the works, I trust Apple's innovative abilities; I just am not convinced that the Apple Watch (or the 12" iPad) will be big sellers after the initial excitement dies down.
My questioning the level of success of the Apple Watch isn't exclusive to Apple: It's the whole sector that I'm referring to. Where's the "gotta have it" feeling? And will people want to recharge their watch every day or two? I think this is a market that companies believe the consumer really wants and may be surprised. Remember how wearing 3D glasses was going to be a big hit, only to belatedly discover people don't want to wear glasses.
"For starters, how about a major refresh of the Apple TV."
Now we're talking.
I have purchased a number of iPads since their introduction and I wanted to love them but I just didn't. Personally, I find them quite frustrating to use except for very casual reading, mostly while traveling, keeping up with the news, entertainment type web surfing and maybe quick email or messaging, but even in that capacity I still prefer a regular Mac notebook or simply just an iPhone. The slipping sales figures are no surprise to me. Nice idea but the reality is that the platform is too limited for most professional or educational uses. iPad just isn't good enough to replace a MacBook, but I still carry both whenever I travel. I'm not sure why I bother with the iPad. My daily activities are, on the go with an iPhone or sitting at desk with a MBP. I don't often find a need for that in between iPad scenario.
My iPhone 6+ has essentially replaced my iPad Mini. It now serves as a backup for my Air, but I wouldn't want to use it for long as a main machine, at least not without a real keyboard.
I never said analysts. Cook said Apple would announce new product categories in 2014. Had September and October come and gone and the only 'new' thing we got was ?Pay I think the stock would have taken a beating.
Yes this all makes sense. Though I still think the expectation was/is to start shipping in Q1. So if that doesn't happen then I think it's clear some of the issues Apple is attempting to solve are proving more difficult than they expected. In that Bloomberg cover story on Tim Cook Jony Ive did say this is the most difficult project he's ever worked on at Apple. It still blows my mind that the chip inside this thing will be more powerful than the chip inside the first iPad.
I guess the question is at what point does Apple decide they have to ship something. With this product I think first impressions are going to be more important than ever. Apple doesn't want first impressions to be buggy software and worse than expected battery life. If Apple is holding an event for this (and perhaps some other stuff too) it would be nice if they could time it to take some of the air out of MWC. Perhaps send out invites that week?
The surface failed. Those laptop-tablet hybrids failed. OS X wasn't built for touch.
The base of the display shown in the image doesn't look easily detachable. There's also the aspect ratio to think about. The old Airs were 16:9, these look like 16:10 and the iPad is 4:3. There's also no home button. I don't think the hybrid route is on the cards for Apple at all.
I wonder if they've pulled the edges of the display in like this:
The non-glass part shown in the photo will be where the hinge goes but I can't make out the edges of the panel border. Shrinking the edges a bit would let them fit a larger display into a smaller form factor and would match more with their iPad line.
Gorgeous Apple Watch faces...
I predict that the most popular Apple Watch will be the 42 mm stainless steel + black sports band.
In terms of unit sales? I'd think it would be something in ?Watch Sport simply because of price, but I agree the 42mm version will be the most popular size.
The bellweather for us to worry about would be dramatically worsening sentiment on this forum... If people here were jumping ship on Apple, it really would be the canary in the coalmine so to speak.
As long as this forum remains in "positive" fanboi outlook, I will hold onto my stock.
On a side note, I really do like my iphone 6 except for the 1 second delay between answering the phone and actually connecting to a voice on the other side. Anyone else having this delay?
So this whole time the rumored 12" iPad was actually just a MacBook monitor?
That's what I was thinking recently. Sounds like it. And iPad Pro sounds dumb as a mass market device. Unless it's like the Slate.
I just think it will be an enormous, jaw-dropping number that nobody expects. I sure hope it is! I expect it to be.
An iPad Pro could be very useful for many professionals. It would be great for musians. Who would need sheet music any more? I'm sure there are many other uses if it is thin and lite enough.
Ben Bajarin tweeted that he thinks KGI numbers are on the high side. He thinks the highest number Apple could report would be 70M. He also thinks it's possible Apple sold more phones in China last quarter than the United States.
What! only 70M, Apple is obviously, without a doubt, doomed. Close up shop little fruit company, you're time is up... ;-).