Apple COO Jeff Williams 'aware' of iPhone, Mac price concerns

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  • Reply 81 of 85
    XrayXXrayX Posts: 3unconfirmed, member
    The problem with offering a "premium" product line with premium pricing is that you have to actually provide premium products. The butterfly keyboard? That's not only not a premium product, it's a defective design.

    Apple even admitted the problem with its keyboard replacement program. Did they change the design to be more reliable? Nope, they changed it to be "quieter". Still, they continue to sell it on all their laptops.

    That's a problem.
  • Reply 82 of 85
    XrayX said:
    The problem with offering a "premium" product line with premium pricing is that you have to actually provide premium products. The butterfly keyboard? That's not only not a premium product, it's a defective design.

    Apple even admitted the problem with its keyboard replacement program. Did they change the design to be more reliable? Nope, they changed it to be "quieter". Still, they continue to sell it on all their laptops.

    That's a problem.
    TouchID, FaceID (T-1 Chip), T-2 chip (security, encryption and codec support on the fly) and the A-Series processors are easily best in class.
    fastasleep
  • Reply 83 of 85
    Oh no, I guess Samsung is just pushing up their greedy margins!

    The Galaxy S10 Plus is no modest gadget, with a starting price of $1,000.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/technology/personaltech/samsung-galaxy-s10-review.html

    An improved fingerprint sensor, but weaker biometrics than the iPhone
    I found that the fingerprint reader on Samsung’s Galaxy S10 Plus was an improvement over past models. But the device’s biometrics over all were still weaker than the features on Apple’s iPhone, Samsung’s biggest rival.

    On the downside, Samsung is behind Apple in face recognition. While Apple uses infrared scanning to create a precise 3-D map of a person’s face, Samsung’s face scanner uses the camera to take your photo and then compares it with an image stored on the device. So a thief could fool the system by holding a photo of your face in front of the camera.
    edited March 2019
  • Reply 84 of 85
    fastasleepfastasleep Posts: 6,450member
    XrayX said:
    The problem with offering a "premium" product line with premium pricing is that you have to actually provide premium products. The butterfly keyboard? That's not only not a premium product, it's a defective design.

    Apple even admitted the problem with its keyboard replacement program. Did they change the design to be more reliable? Nope, they changed it to be "quieter". Still, they continue to sell it on all their laptops.

    That's a problem.
    Says you. They're on the third generation of butterfly keyboard, how do you know they're not more reliable? All signs point to improvements in the keyboards with the side effect that they also became quieter in the process. 
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