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walter77 said:

Tim needs to keep his sexual anarchy politics out of Apple's business. I don't think Steve picked him for his sexuality or politics. 

He likely picked him for his good business sense, judgement, and values, which he and staff are demonstrating. Also, guess you didn't read the part about Apple's 30 years sponsoring the event.

Rayz2016 said:

Wait, so these things are charged with a lightning cable, but the PowerBeats3 uses mini-USB?

What's that about?

the latter two are legacy products, whereas Beats X are newly designed. This maybe relevant to their design choices. 

Wow, potentially making users upgrade to a newer, free OS. Tyranny is alive and well. 

nubus said:

This rant about why Apple selling a lot of phones should make Mac users happy... well... no. Selling phones is not going to improve the focus, features, or quality of macOS or the computers we use as our main tool for work. It is even worse than demanding for Newton users to be happy about the success Apple had after abandoning their platform.

Looking forward we should expect to see the App Store being unlocked by legislation. It will allow for Google to jump in and offer developers a shared app space for Android + iOS making it free for users to swap platforms like on Steam.

Will Apple stay on the current path by keeping the cold Metal-Thin design language from 2001? By removing every little touch of humanism from macOS? By having a CEO that is using every chance to break his own record for most frequent use of "thrilled" and "profound" in a keynote? And will we still care?

Unlock AppStore with legislation? Not sure what you're referring to here but that would be an unprecedented overreach of gov't and incredibly anti-business - both of which unlikely under a Republican administration or middle of the ground Democratic one (like we've had since '92). I think what you're referring to is ant-trust. Problem is Apple isn't the largest player by market share in mobile - that belongs to Android. Apple is just more profitable which is more to do with hardware sales and the quality of apps on their platform. Also AppStore is already relatively open. Developers are free to develop apps for iOS as they are for Android, and most major app developers (Google included) already do this. Anyone using Google Apps on iOS can easily switch to the same app on Android. If anything it is harder to develop apps for Android given the number of active versions.

VisualSeed said:

rogifan_new said:

Makes sense as no one ever says I'm going to the Target Store or Walmart Store. But I think the website should say Apple - The Domain, or Apple, The Domain. That clearly identifies it as the store name, then location.

Well because Target and Walmart are not the product as well and are officially the names of the stores. I still add the words dealer or dealership after a car brad e.g. Toyota Dealership or Ford Dealer. I guess you could say "I'm going to Toyota" or "I'm going to Ford" but it sounds a lot less formal. 

Most places just differentiate their online presence from their brick and mortar by specifically adding ".com"

Apple is the company, not the product. iPhone, iPad, Apple Music, etc - are the products. Having 'store' attached to thier reta locations is redundant. Also, removal of which breaks down the perceived barrier between retail staff and operations, engineering, etc. It's a welcome and smart move. And to your point about auto dealerships - they're not owned by the parent company, they're in essence franchisees. That said it's entirely appropriate to say 'I'm going to take my car in to Mazda today', and I know people that speak accordingly.

It seems it is Thiel, not Apple that has reached the zienth of their respective relevance. His political philosophies and ties to the incoming administration will make him a pariah. 

foregoneconclusion said:

Just an FYI: "potty-o" is actually more correct for pronunciation of "patio" than "patty-o" due to it being a Spanish word.

Your friends when discussing you with other friends refer to you as “that guy who says potty-o”

I like this approach, timing release of a mid-tier phone in Spring. Between that and the expanded iPhone lines (presuming 7s, 7s Plus, Pro this Fall), Apple is keeping things fresh, sales steady. 

I think the front is more suspect. I have a hard time believing Apple would offer a white front given the prominence of the camera and IR sensors, let alone the notch. Everything Apple pro on YouTube has a nice mock-up of a white iPhone that includes black notch and bezel, with white frame and back glass. Full stormtrooper. I’d buy that phone.

It's nice looking hardware for sure. Also interesting to see that Rubin (former Android head) chose to focus on on-device operations as opposed to cloud, similar to Apple's approach.