tjwolf

What keeps the router itself from sending data back home (to Amazon)?  God how I wish Apple was still in the router business.

wizard69 said:

...If Epic wins it will be a win for all developers and users of the iOS ecosystem. 

That is nonsense, in my opinion.  If Apple is forced to allow other app stores for iOS, users will no longer have the same level of security they currently enjoy - and that additional security is what Apple's customers are wiling to pay Apple a premium for.  Apple has always had a set of rules for the app store.  Nobody was forced to abide by them - developers always had the option of simply not developing for iOS.  But developers didn't - because they could make money on iOS and its desirable and growing customer demographic.  But now Epic and some others feel that they no longer need to abide by those rules yet still have access to the platform Apple maintains and enhances.  They want to do a rather Trump'ian thing: get out of their contractual obligations by going to the courts, hoping they get a sympathetic judge.

mpantone said:

Beats said:

Is the Apple share drop because they didn’t meet random people’s expectations even though they had another record-breaking quarter?

Random? No.

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They aren’t random people. They are both institutional investors as well as retail investors. They all have tax IDs. The SEC knows exactly who these parties are and so will the IRS eventually. It’s not just Jimmy Fanboy Investor on AppleInsider, it’s more like some fund manager at FMR or someone who manages the pension fund of your state’s teachers union, hedge fund managers.

While the stock market will punish companies (and not just Apple) for missing expectations, the market is mostly forward looking. The market is also unhappy when the company withholds forward guidance.

Apple hasn’t offered guidance since the pandemic began and today’s market reaction was predictable.

I think wha the OP meant by "random people" is analysts who set targets for AAPL that oftentimes have little basis in reality.  Oftentimes they're even outside the range Apple  provides!  You're right, during the pandemic Apple stopped giving guidance - because covid impacts made it too difficult to be accurate.  But before the pandemic, Apple has been one of the most transparent companies out there - they always gave pretty accurate range for where they expected future revenue to fall.  That didn't prevent "random people" from setting targets outside that range and, if Apple - as it said it would - hit their projected range, AAPL would still be punished, because it didn't meet the fantasy numbers these 'analysts' said AAPL should hit.

lkrupp said:

And when the series 7 is announced and available for sale this rumor will be debunked as most rumors are.

Articles like this are never debunked - how could they?  Apple hasn't even announced the product, much less given a release date.  So when the watch is released, we can't know whether it would have been released earlier if not for this 'delay'.

Of all the Apple products I own (iPhones, an iPad, an Apple TV, various AirPods and Apple Watches, a couple MacBook Pros, and two HomePods), the HomePods are the most useless ones.  Other than an occasional command to Siri to set a timer or turn on some HomeKit enabled light, they see no use whatsoever.  When I first bought them, I also used them as a "sound bar" so my TV could have better sound, but since I've gotten a new TV, even that use case has disappeared.  It's the only Apple product I've ever owned where I felt I didn't get my money's worth.

longpath said:

It seems to me that Apple focused on a more power efficient cpu for this time around, as increased battery life was stressed.

Could be - or the increased battery life could simply be due to the bigger battery LOL.

mike1 said:

Is anyone really surprised that...

1. Apple decided to push for the best user experience and make a device that wasn't tethered to another? There is absolutely no need to or argument for tethering to a phone. Whatever 'A" processor is deemed necessary from the phone can be incorporated into a standalone device.

2. That Apple decided to pursue a product for customers beyond "creatives". That would be like limiting Apple Watch customers to time keepers at a football or hockey game.

3. That they wouldn't try to leapfrog the competition from that user experience point of view.

4. It wasn't easy or quick or cheap to do that.

For (1), I don't know if anyone was talking about a physical tether.  The argument for a wireless tethering to a phone is obvious:  the weight you're willing to put up with on your face is substantially less than what you're willing to put up with in a phone that's in your hand or in your pocket most of the time.

For (2), I agree that it shouldn't be a surprise that Apple needs to address a larger audience than that of creatives at their desks.  But even an audience as large as "serious gamers" would really be too small for Apple.  But those are the only ones who'd put up with a heavy VR headset.  For Apple to sell millions of devices, they need something as light as glasses which people are willing to wear for extended periods - i.e. a whole day - which means the vaunted AR glasses.

Totally agree with (3) - but with the product they SHOULD be aiming for, there is currently no competition anyway.  Nobody's come out with a lightweight, useful AR/MR headset/glasses that people are actually buying in any volume.

wood1208 said:

What about OLED burn-in effect ? How far is MicroLED for iPhone,iPad,MACs ?

Is that (was it every?) a problem?  I've had every iPhone Apple sold and my TV is an OLED LG - none of them have shown any 'burn in'.  Of course, I'm not stupid and let those displays statically display the same image all day.

"Safari has enjoyed a position of being the default system browser for iPhone, iPad, and Mac users, and that has enabled it to get a sizable user base over time" - funny how the article mentions this for Safari, but is mum on the fact that the same holds for Chrome in the Android space - a market that is 3-4x the size of iOS.  And given that, is it really surprising that Google Chrome has 3x the number of users?  If anything, Apple's 1B users looks pretty good in comparison when you consider Safari is not available on Android but the reverse is not true.

rainmaker said:

I’ve been waiting on a product to fill this exact need for me, and even better that I use Lutron HomeKit lightswitches already! When will this be available is all I need to know. Price too, but I’ll buy it pretty much no matter what.

If you’re gonna comment, you ought to at least watch the video in which all that info was given.