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macxpress said:

mikethemartian said:

macxpress said:

Fred257 said:

Trump is going to lose in an absolute landslide. Both candidates are senile. Is this the best as a country we can do? Sad…

One can only hope that he loses in a landslide...the country is very very divided right now. If there's one thing Trump is really good at it's dividing people and being an excellent bullshitter. He's created a societal civil war in our country and it's sad. Everything is us versus them and you're either with me or against me. The country will not be well at all if he wins the election and is in office for another 4yrs. He doesn't know WTH he's doing. He doesn't know how to deal with actual issues. This is why he completely flopped the pandemic. Even people that worked with him says he's really stupid and just doesn't have a clue. I will gladly take 4 more years of President Biden. After Biden I think we'll have some pretty decent candidates. 

He is actually a horrible bullshitter. It is just his supporters are very easy marks. It is like taking candy from a baby so you can’t expect him not to take advantage of them.

This is why I mean...he can bullshit to his fan base and they'll believe anything he says, even if it's not true and has no intention at all in doing it. Or, just doesn't know how to do it. 

nubus said:

• Uninhabited islands hit by 29%. Those penguins and seals are so mean and unfair to U.S. workers.
• Taiwan - not recognized by U.S. as a nation - got a tariff on their own. China is furious and U.S. products could become socially unacceptable. Hard to beat China on nationalism.
• Israel got hit by 17%. Probably a bit unexpected to see Israel as an enemy to the U.S.

We will have to see where this takes us.

anthogag said:

This is only Trump's sons being doosh bags and taking advantage of the father's followers/sheeple. 

mpantone said:

tht said:

mpantone said:

First of all Apple is not bringing back the iPhone mini. Let it go. I'm one of a very, Very, VERY small group of people who prefer smaller phones. Apple has sold smaller phones for years, they know exactly how many they sold and how the demand curve was trending before they canned the iPhone 13 mini.

As for the other iPhone models, I predict that any iPhone with only one rear camera will end up selling poorly. Poor sales of iPhone 16e in India shows that even price-conscious markets will lean toward an older iPhone with multiple rear cameras versus the current entry level 16e model.

That's because Joe Consumer all over the world prioritizes these features: camera, display, battery.

Well, never say never. 

There is a niche of buyers who will buy a small phone, just as there is a niche of buyers who will buy a $2000 folding display phone. I've said it before that iPhone mini had enough sales imo. It was on order 3 to 5 million unit sales. That is enough. The issue I think Apple is having was gross margins weren't as high as Apple wanted. This can be addressed easily enough if they want to bring this type of model back, as well as addressing battery.

Look, if pumping up gross margins was that easy, Apple would have done it and came out with the iPhone 14 mini, iPhone 15 mini, etc.

My guess is that the sales curve was headed down. They probably sold fewer 13 minis than 12 minis and projected even fewer sales going forward. My guess is that Apple had a iPhone 14 mini in their labs but pulled the plug on the product line. Today it is unlikely there are any mini iPhone prototypes in Apple's labs.

The closest thing Apple has now is the SE models which is often older/cheap tech in an older iPhone chassis. Low sales volumes means higher component cost per unit because of weaker volume discounts. If the market isn't there, Apple can't demand better pricing from their component vendors.

In any case, if you are holding out for an iPhone mini my guess is you have purchased your last iPhone.

Note that Apple's competitors don't really offer smaller handsets (outside of niche markets in Asia) apart from the folding models.