mtbnut

Oooh, I wonder if Google, which charges for storage on its Nest cameras, will support this. 

  

Wow, an iPhone does all that when booting up? It's crazy that all that complexity is happening on such a simple-looking device. (Insert graphic showing an iPhone ~ equal sign ~ 500,000 ENIACS)

In related news, engineer who designed the transmission in the Ford F350, which New York City uses for its ambulance fleet, credited with saving woman's life due to the transmission not failing when the ambulance drove her 0.3 miles from her home to the NYU Hospital. 

  

I could see us getting a man on Mars pretty soon. But manufacturing an entire iPhone in the USA? Impossible, mostly from an economic, not a logistical, stance.

The amount of money American workers would demand would make the iPhone so expensive that sales would tank. Less sales equals less profit, which equals less money to pay workers, who must then be laid off, which means less American workers have jobs, and we're back to square one.

"...where the escape key would be..."

I'll bet you the media will have a field day on this innocuous detail.

"APPLE REMOVES PHYSICAL ESCAPE KEY AND POSTS FIRST REVENUE DECLINE IN 15 YEARS. COINCIDENCE?!"

zroger73 said:

mtbnut said:

Well, looks like I'll be keeping my iPhone 6 yet another year...

Likewise. I have no current plans to get rid of my two year-old iP6 given that it still works perfectly. The improvements in the 6S and 7 were tempting at first, but it's funny how I can't even recall most of the improvements off hand without looking at this point. I'm waiting for wireless charging.

Exactly. I know Apple doesn't like to get hung up on the tech specs race; however, if they're selling their products on emotional attachment and how one "feels" about their products, then they're really doing us a disservice by showing everyone a lack of "desire" to move the needle ahead. 

One often hears from Apple devotees that the evolution of the iPhone is one that has been going on since the original iPhone, that they're eventually going to arrive at a design nirvana, where nothing more should be done to what they claim is the Perfect Design. Then it's funny how the antithesis of that argument is used against competitors (Samsung) in patent trials in which Samsung claims their rounded corners and swipe-to-unlock features were organically arrived at as being the logical conclusion to obvious design elements.

Apple wants to have it both ways: We're keeping the same design because we've found it's the near-perfect design. BUT, if our competitors arrive at the same conclusion (which they can't because, well, they're not us!), then they're infringing.  

slprescott said:

Reassign them to the AirPods division.  It needs help, apparently.

$200 billion in the bank. 115,000 employees. 

And are late delivering wireless f-ing earphones. 

In any other industry, that's a fail. But with Apple, it's "We're taking the time to make sure we're doing it right," and everyone nods in agreement. 

Nice job. 

How do you say 'Give me a break' in French?

Guilty. I mean, "Gui-ELL-tee."

I'm stuck because the new Suunto OLED touchscreen watches come out next month. As a cyclist, this watch really appeals to me, and the battery life on the Apple Watch sucks ass big time (and if I start Strava from the Watch, which launches heart rate measurement during the ride, then I get about eight turns of the cranks before the Watch dies).

Please change and just say "Yes" to Flash.