lostkiwi

This will be interesting. There is a large and extremely vocal group of Republican/Trump supporters here on AI. Personally I can't understand why as Apple is the most left leaning American company I can think of in the most left leaning state. 

I'm not American but it is so gosh darn interesting watching your politics. It is a mixture of the most toxic reality TV series combined with the naked tribalism of a collegiate final (insert the sport of your choice). 

Fascinating. And horrifying at once. 

AKer said:

Where is Optimus?  It's currently one of the only players that can play HDR content, in HDR, on the new Macbook Pros.  I love VLC and IINA, but they just tone-map HDR content down into SDR when you play an HDR file on them.  It looks flat and dull compared to Optimus.

I had a peek at that. It looks good, but I don’t want to email someone my credit card details to get a licence. Just seems too insecure, but if he used a payment processor I was familiar with then sure I would give it a whirl. 

viclauyyc said:

cashxx said:

How about using discipline on the bullies?? Don't tell me that the Britain is also catering to kids like the U.S. is?  This has got to stop, our world will be a mess in 40 years with todays kids running everything. 

That is what they said 40 years ago.

Many people would look at the world - particularly the political sphere in the USA and UK - and argue that they were right 40 years ago.

Great piece, Dan. Cheers!

I wonder if someone will start making cases for Apple Cards. 

Come on Apple - you have the kinks ironed out, how about releasing it to the rest of the world?  
NZ wouldn't complain about "muh sexism' if we were the next country to get the card!  

Sounds fishy to me. 
I doubt that Apple would bring AirPods 3 early an entire year. 
Perhaps one or two competitors in this space are seeding stories hoping to stall Apple’s growth in this segment.
It hints at “don’t buy AirPods 2 now, just wait a few months until the 3 comes out. While you are waiting, have you considered the new Samesung HairPods 2, half the price of Apple?..”

airnerd said:

THANK YOU APPLE!  I have never used Facebook to log into anything, because I trust them (somehow) less than I trust Google.  I just imagine if I use Facebook to sign in then they will target friends and family with whatever the site wants to sell.  Instead I'll just use my anonymous email to sign up for sites so I stay somewhat anonymous except for what they can glean from me reading/writing/etc their site.

100% agree.
I haven’t seen the keynote yet - will this work for websites too, or just apps?

Yeah I have some weird behavior from my AirPods as well, not finding the iPhone or only playing one channel.

it is quite noticeable as they are usually rock solid. I guess it sticks out more when the performance has almost always been outstanding before this. 

Very interesting article, thanks for the post.

I was very surprised to hear the iPhone and Apple Watch penetration levels in the US Gen Z market.  Those are some very high percentages for some quite expensive pieces of hardware.  In my country Apple seems to have a high penetration in the commuter set of customers but teens seem to be a more mixed bag between Apple/Android devices, I guess because we are not as wealthy a country as the USA.

Still, overall some great news for Apple in the teen USA market, hopefully those young folk will continue to be Apple users as they leave their teenage years behind them.