disneylandman

jbdragon said:

Apple needs a lower price point. Limit the hours or something. I don't hardly use Apple music and yet pay the same as someone that may have it on 10 hours daily.

Limit the hours?  Like AOL's original service of only 5 hours a month?  If you hardly use it, then why are you wasting your money paying for something you rarely use?  Sounds like you just bought it to try and be cool, yet never use it.

GeorgeBMac said:

avon b7 said:

It would be an intelligent move and cover the lower end very well. There are lots of people who cannot afford where Apple has gone on pricing for new phones since iPhone X. Late last year they vastly improved the offering by making the the iPhone 11 more affordable than the model it replaced and hacking the price of the iPhone XR when it moved down a tier.

An iPhone SE2 would be the culmination of that trend.

As a former cost accountant and analyst I would love to see the numbers behind building a phone with state of the art internals and software - the same guts -  (but using older features like screen and camera) yet selling it for about a quarter as much (27%) as the flagship phone.  It's like selling a Porsche in a Chevy body for Chevy prices.

Is the margin on the flagship so flagrantly higher?

Is the margin on the SE2 so very, very low?  

.... Or is it even being sold for a loss to support some other aspect of the business?

Nobody but the internal financial managers will ever know the answer(s).  And, I sincerely hope that they do know -- I have seen too many companies make similar choices without knowing those numbers and instead working off of hunches and feelings.

As an accountant and analyst I loved digging into those things and analyzing them from the ground up -- and this got my curiosity and desire to know all fired up.   They make for fascinating analysis, especially when volumes are impacted and idle resources brought into play.   Often existing assumptions get turned on their head.

They have an extremely high margin, which is why they are making billions.

Oprah talking to other privileged celebrities is not worth watching, nor is she an expert on COVID. It is disgusting that celebrities and sports figures with no symptoms are getting tested, and then flaunting about it on their Twitter accounts from their mansions.  

Wgkrueger said:

Two other things to consider. 

The first is the person that picked up the 11 inch 2018 iPad Pro and now wants the 12.9”. 

The second is the rumor that there’s going to be another 2020 iPad Pro released later this year with a newer display and might also include an A13 cpu and more memory. 

Not going to happen this year.  

tycho24 said:

Like, why wouldn't they show the front of the box?????! Lol.

If you have seen the boxes for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s, you would know the front of the box is plain white with nothing on it.  The product details are only printed on the back of the box.  So why would anyone show a picture of the blank front of the box?  Anything can be faked with Photoshop.

If you think about it, what has Apple done in 5 years?  They created a watch that people do not really need, and they created a 'trash-can' Mac Pro that has not been touched in 3 years and does not sell very well.  They haven't created anything new that people did not realize they actually need...like they did with the iPod and iPhone.  Siri has been around for five years and not much improvement.  They added a few more 'features' like asking about sports or movies, but it makes mistakes quite often when trying to use it.  My Philips Hue lights work better with the Philips app than they do trying to set them up with HomeKit.

Except most major players are not on board with the single sign-on feature, so it is still considered vaporware.  The TV app is nothing exciting because I do not look to AppleTV for watching live content.  I would rather watch new HD broadcasts with my cable subscription, not an internet feed that is subjected to downtime or hiccups that can cause a failed stream or degraded quality.  I do not know of anyone that watches live TV anymore, so who would really use the TV app anyway and be forced to watch commercials?  The TiVo Roamio and TiVo Bolt 'commercial skip' feature is fantastic.  One button push and immediate skip to bypass commercials.  The AppleTV is great for Netflix, streaming on-demand, and your local media, but I will never use it for live content and suffering through commercials.  There have been occasions when the Internet is down for whatever reason, but cable service still works and I can still watch and record TV.

Funny how people forget that Apple had this very same problem with batteries catching fire with the dreadful PowerBook 5300 series.  Apple had to scrap the whole idea of using Lithium Ion batteries and go back to nickel metal hydride batteries.  They recalled the laptops already sold and replaced the batteries with the older battery tech, which had 30% less battery life.  Also poor design caused cracked casings and failing motherboards.  The 5300 was the worst product ever designed by Apple.  Sometimes a company makes a turd of a product.  Funny that people here love to bash Samsung for their phones, but they all probably love their Samsung HDTVs.

tzeshan said:

Despite media writings of how much better Samsung Galaxy S7 is over iPhone 6S, apparently the sharp-minded and well-informed teens know it is false.  I am not kidding.  Teen are much well-informed through their peers than majority of idiot adults.  

The 'idiot' adult that bought you an Apple Watch?  Most teens today are raised by 'helicopter moms', lack any independence, responsibility, or have any concept of the value of money.  Sorry, but those 'idiot' adults are far more knowledgable than you will ever be in life.

This article read more like a fluff article.  Many reported worse battery life with real world work...but AI watched a YouTube video and claimed better battery life.  Watching YouTube all day is not real world work.  USB-C is the future...until the next port comes around in a few years.  They said the same thing about USB, FireWire, and even Thunderbolt 1 and 2 ports.  Apple should have included a few free dongles with a laptop that now cost hundreds more than the model it replaced.  Everyone out there still uses USB-A for printers, scanners, and even Apple's very own iPhone.  No one has USB-C peripherals, so everyone needs to buy either new cables or dongles to plug into existing displays, printers, hard drives, etc.  People with 5 year old MacBooks can consider upgrading, but anyone with a 2015 model would be an idiot to upgrade to a more expensive model with a worse keyboard.  The touchbar is nice, and I used one in person, but it is definitely not the reason to upgrade to the new model.