brucemc

boltsfan17 said:

tbornot said:

China having a recession might just buy us another decade before the Chinese Military is ready to start a ruckus with the US and Japanese Navies.  So, here’s hoping for confusion to the Emperor of China!

China is still very far behind compared to the US Navy. Even the 44 ships they made between 2016-17 are still far less advanced than what the US Navy has. China has one soviet era aircraft carrier in service. The carriers the US Navy uses blow that out of the water. Another area where China really lags with its Navy is long range strike capabilities. It will take decades for China to get where the US Navy is now. 

mikethemartian said:

bb-15 said:

Imagine a company looking through your mail, tracking where you go & what you buy to send advertising to you. In the past that would have been intolerable.   
But that is what Google does. It mines data on its apps, ties it to the user and uses that data to send individualized ads to the customer. 
This is how Google makes most of its money. 

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/business-google.asp ;

https://bgr.com/2016/02/11/why-facebook-and-google-mine-your-data-and-why-theres-nothing-you-can-do-to-stop-it/ ;

I minimize that kind of data tracking as much as possible & part of how I do that is to carefully use Apple products to reduce data tracking for ads.
In addition, Apple has top notch customer service & devices which have OS support/updates for many years.  
The Apple ecosystem works well across its devices. 
Apple products by & large are simple to use & yet are very powerful. 

For all those things which benefit me, I’m willing to pay a reasonable amount more. 

 

You don’t think Apple would do the same? Tim Cook talking about privacy isn’t a guarantee. He may one day make the “pragmatic” decision to sell your data.

kruegdude said:

brucemc said:

Apple is a bad investment.  Please sell your shares.

Hopefully no one will follow your ill advised advice of selling low without first seeking out someone who knows what their talking about, investment wise. 

hammeroftruth said:

bc2009 said:

Kinda hard to make the argument that the iPhone 11 is better in every way than the iPhone X when it still does not have some features of iPhone X (including an OLED screen and a 2x zoom lens).  Also, you repeatedly say the price of iPhone 11 is $650 when it is really $699.

iPhone 11 is a great value for all the technology you get (just like iPhone XR was last year), but an article that repeatedly harps on how others were wrong should get some basic things right (including the grammar in the title).

This article reads like a diatribe from somebody who can't wait to say "I told you so" to the whole internet and then proceeded to hastily pound the keyboard as fast they could.

DED IMHO has gone from commentator to Apple apologist.

I don’t remember the writer of Roughly Drafted turning a blind eye to Apple’s shortcomings. 

The reality is right now, there aren’t a lot of people who will be willing to pay $1k for a smartphone, whether it’s Apple or Samsung. Just read some of the comments on sites that are reviewing the Samsung Note 10, especially the 5G version. 

Apple had to do something to get more people to upgrade rather than hold on to their devices even longer.  Dropping the price of the iPhone 11 $50 cheaper than the XR was a start, including a free year of Apple TV+ family helps, but there are still plenty of iPhone users who are not loyal to Apple and this is what affects the bottom line. 

In the days days before the iPhone, Apple loyalists were the ones keeping Apple profitable, and in turn Apple made products we loved.
Once the iPhone was released, people
who never bought anything Apple were flashing their devices around as if they were a status symbol of their wealth, taste or intelligence. It’s popularity was it’s attraction, not it’s ease of use, or how powerful it can be. 

Apple was addicted to the attention and started  releasing more and more products that while were still attractive to Apple loyalists, they also had things that they didn’t like about them, like soldered memory and hard drives and plenty of quality programs that dealt with issues that Apple should have predicted. It didn’t affect sales, Apple was like a bear catching salmon during spawning season, it just can’t miss. 

Now, people are still weary of trusting Apple after that stupid battery replacement program. 
They don’t want to upgrade for 1k or even $700. You can try to spin it and give the customer the monthly cost because that’s more  palatable, but customers are not stupid. They played that game already with the carriers.

There are millions of iphone users who don’t really use their device to its potential and they are realizing that. This is why they are willing to abandon Apple and buy a cheap android phone.

So now Apple has to win their business all over again. Apple retail isn’t prepared to explain why an iPhone is better than other devices. They don’t have Apple loyalists as employees anymore, they have more people who think it’s cool to work there but don’t know enough about Apple products.   

potatoman said:

I bet the colours are coming as a refresh to the original, ‘cheaper’ AirPods. They are rumoured to be refreshed too, and Apple have a history of selling the cheaper products in the line up in different colours (iPod mini/nano/shuffle, iPhone 5C/XR/11). It allows the more expensive model to be marketed as premium, while the cheaper product appeals to its own market. In this case, they could get a second (or third) breath of life out of the original AirPods.

Seriously though, if they offered the classic AirPods in the iPhone XR and 11 colours, just before the holiday season, they would sell LIKE CRAZY.

digitol said:

Nice, but not even close to good enough. Sounds like there is a serious problem with the new macbook pros. I have never had schiller & Co., come out and  be so vocal about a product launch. I smell fear, and desperation. They say best sales ever, I think the internet proves otherwise:  See what all the other big name longtime pro mac users are saying - 
http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/27/new-macbook-pros-and-the-state-of-the-mac/