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Editorial: Will Apple's 1990's "Golden Age" collapse repeat itself?
This is false. The profit margin for iPhone X is actually much lower than historical profits because it is so expensive to develope and build. The cost number you cite is total BS.tzeshan said:The biggest blunder Cook made regarding iPhone X is the price. He cannot see that iPhone is beleaguered. The estimated cost of iPhone X parts is $370. He is so obsessed with profit margin that iPhone X price is set to $999. Even at $799, the profit margin is 46%. Apple is giving many buyers an impression of greedy. If you want to sell a product to mass of people, the first thing you should not do is greedy.
Unless Apple has a breakthrough mass product, its future is really not very bright. Cook has wasted the goodwill Jobs created for Apple.
Apple today is far larger and more successful than when Jobs was alive. Part of that success is directly following Jobs vision. Part comes from trying new things that Jobs would have opposed.
But to suggest that the most successful company in the world is in dire trouble because it hasn’t reinvented the PC over and over again (and has “only” created and launched personal mobility in Apple Watch, AirPods) is really myopic and ignorant.
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20 Years of iMac: Steve Jobs iconic internet machine that courageously reinvented Apple
ADB (as you know!) was implemented in 1986, a full decade before USB started taking off. There were tons of people who had nice ADB Keyboards who wanted to use them with an iMac or other USB Macs who complained about it. GeoPort was an early 90s extension of the Mac serial port to enable access to the DSP built into AV Macs. There were only a few things that took advantage of this, but everyone who had bought into it wanted to keep using this tech (which was barely 5 years old when iMac shipped).wozwoz said:Actually, I don't remember any quibbling at the time about dropping legacy ports such as ADB keyboards and GeoPorts. The latter were Apple proprietary ports that Apple was replacing with industry standard connectors that were insanely faster better, in every respect.
Contrast that with today's changes, where Apple is taking high-quality industry standard components (such as the 3.5mm audio connector), and replacing it with proprietary and inferior quality connectors (forcing mini D/A converters in your headphones). That's why Apple supporters are complaining today.In 1998, USB was an "industry standard" in the same way that Sprint's (LTE rival) WiMax was. As they used to say on usenet, the great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. ADB and GeoPorts were also "standards" that Apple created before there was anything of similar quality to use. The PC UART-based alternatives were garbage and most PC makers were still using PS/2--which couldn't even daisy chain and required two specific ports for the keyboard and the mouse(!).
Additionally, USB was also proprietary - it was owned by Intel. It didn't take off until Apple lit the fire under adoption. Many years later, PCs were still shipping with two PS/2 jacks. If it hadn't been for Apple, USB probalbly would have died to cheaper, lower quality tech.
Apple took the minijack off of iPhones to capitalize on the volume of internal space it was wasting and to avoid needing an external plug that needed to be weatherproofted (and which has historically contributed to lots of service repairs). The downside of needing a Lightning adapter for standard headphones is very minimal, and Lightning digital headphones can offer much audio higher quality (and other features) than the built in D/A attached to an old analog audio miniplug. Note that iPads still use minijacks because the tradeoff is less advantageous.
On a mobile device, being tethered to an Ethernet cable usually doesn't make any sense. And if you have super fast WiFi, it may not even offer any advantage (until you get into workstation tasks such as connecting to a NAS array. It's also no harder to connect Ethernet to a MacBook Pro via a USB-C adapter than it is to use an RJ-45 plug.wozwoz said:StrangeDays said:...sorry but consumer media card slots and ethernet jacks aren’t coming back to the pro portable. Thankfully those who need such use cases can easily plug in an adapter. The rest of us will use wifi.
lol - wi-fi is for noobs. Pros use Ethernet.
And even Apple realise it, with the new iMac 'Pro' supporting new 10G Ethernet built-in.
The only reason there is no Ethernet port on the Mac notebooks is because the connector is too large to fit into the ever shrinking frame (much the same reasons Apple shifted from USB to USB-C).
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20 Years of iMac: Steve Jobs iconic internet machine that courageously reinvented Apple
I mean except for iPhone 6/7/8/Plus, Apple Watch, AirPods, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, iMac Pro, iPhone X and HomePod. And accessories.ajmas said:Since Steve Jobs passed on we haven’t seen any iconic design innovations from Jonny Ive, at least in terms of the Mac line. Did Apple become too serious, did Ive lose his creative touch or did something else happen.
It really feels like it’s time Apple brought out a new fun model, as way of saying they can still do fun stuff, they do still have skills to design and they are willing to do something courageous for the anniversary. -
Bloomberg obsessed with Google's Pixel, Apple's iPhone Supply Chain -- but not Google's Pi...
I would actually support a GoFundMe to have Gatorguy start his own blog and promise not to drive forum engagement off the rails into insanity here 😂Muntz said:
I'm starting to think AI pays you to post here to engage readers and drive forum engagement. I cannot imagine a normal person caring this much about Google—an advertising company—to white knight them in the way that you've done for years.gatorguy said:Why would anyone ... expectations for their demise have been in the news since 2011, this ain't nuttin' recent. -
Five years after Steve Jobs: an Apple with the courage to say 'No'
American liberals might not like Trump, but what evidence is there of inventing fake scandals, blaming him for things he had nothing to do with, or of pretending/hoping he has health problems?The_Watcher said:"... the commodity PC industry loathed Jobs as deeply and as blindly as American liberals hate Donald Trump" There, fixed that for you.
Many liberals actually love Trump being in the race, considering that he not only gives the weakest possible competition to Hillary, but has also turned off many voters, ensuring that down-ticket Republican Senate & House candidates will lose many votes this cycle.
But the analogy was there for a purpose: Apple is targeted with phony "scandals" that amount to nothing (like Bendgate, where other phones were weaker and iPhone 6 Plus wasn't really a weak design anyway), is complained about for causing issues that have nothing to do with Apple or its policies, and Steve personally was targeted with mean-spirited health rumors.
This is what an analogy is. Anyone with critical thinking skills can see this. If you want to swap out words to make yourself feel better, you can, but what you wrote makes no sense at all and has no basis in reality.
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Pokemon GO is earning Apple's App Store 3x as much money as Nintendo
crowley said:Clickbait title based on incorrect calculations derived from a guesstimate.
Nobody is "guessing" that The App Store gets a 30% cut.
...talk about a broken record DED.
you can't actually, can you? I mean really, what interesting new thing have you said in years? Just spewing hate and disrespect.
