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Hreb said: "There may have been some users who did like its small size" -- in fact there are tons of us. The iPhone SE 2020 confirms what we already knew about Apple's mobile strategy: Apple is no longer interested in innovating when it come…
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gentooguy said: Yawn. Check DED's archives circa 2012-2015. He insisted (among other things): 1. Apple would never have a phone with a screen bigger than 4' because the Android phones with larger screens were bad design. Wow wild accusa…
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GeorgeBMac said: I would have gone with modern external bezelless design in an SE sized phone with previous gen processors. Frankly I don't see a much advantage to the end user from an A13 vs an A12 or even A11. But to get rid of the bez…
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Facebook did try the same thing, and pundits at the time made a big deal about how mini-app"bots" were going to take over and erase the App Store back in 2015-2016. That didn't happen. https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/10/apple-inc-and-the-…
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ElCapitan said: corrections said: ElCapitan said: First of all there is a rude awakening across the planet of the insanity of shipping production of goods and services offshore, and putting all eggs in the Chinese basket. The…
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ElCapitan said: corrections said:But Apple's installed base includes a vast number of independently rich people who are at most going to be inconvenienced by this turmoil. The virus does not discriminate between rich or poor, so eve…
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sirlance99 said: corrections said: Imagine if Apple run by some ultra privelaged rich dick who thinks he's smarter than he really is, like Elon. Funny, because the only dick who thinks he is smarter than he really is, is yo…
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k2kw said: Trump went far too easy on Apple with the Tariffs. He should have imposed at least 100% tariffs, but unfortunately he tied his success to the stock market too much which Apple is the biggest compAny on it, Trump prot…
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k2kw said: We’ve been hearing for years that Siri would get better but it still sucks. A lazy cynic can say that about anything. Say something of value that's interesting.
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k2kw said: corrections said: Yes, one of the things Apple really needs to work on improving. But it is well-positioned to do that, given that it has powerful on-device hardware and has Siri deployed across a billion users. H…
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k2kw said: corrections said: WarrenBuffduckh said: More relevant to the Q. “ Will the COVID-19 disaster sink Apple's premium hardware?” is that we’re waiting, waiting and waiting for AirTile, AirPower, AppleHeadphone, AirPodsPr…
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elijahg said: snow66 said: While the media focusses on Apples shortcomings with Siri, Apple is reaching far beyond cloud based voice assistants. Yeah so far beyond the cloud that asking Siri to do something as simple as pause or…
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spice-boy said: do people that are living paycheck to paycheck buy a phone for $1,000? Yes they do. It's cheaper to trade it in every two years and keep buying the latest new premium iPhone than buying a cheap $300 Android every year and w…
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ElCapitan said: First of all there is a rude awakening across the planet of the insanity of shipping production of goods and services offshore, and putting all eggs in the Chinese basket. The effect of the COVID-19 crisis is that suddenly al…
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WarrenBuffduckh said: More relevant to the Q. “ Will the COVID-19 disaster sink Apple's premium hardware?” is that we’re waiting, waiting and waiting for AirTile, AirPower, AppleHeadphone, AirPodsPro Lite, AppleGlasses, AppleCar, iTV, iPhone…
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luxuriant said: Always great to read your thoughts, Daniel. But the tldr; is simply to apply Betteridge's Law of Headlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines I do that ironically to feel clever. It also lets …
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dclivejazz said: Even given that this site is devoted to all things Apple, this editorial is over the top in building up a straw man of a publication it claims has historically made inaccurate negative predictions about the company and then h…
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bohler said: the most idiotic thing in recent years was Apple buying back its stock and building up a wall of debt $100bn high...insane Apple has bought up shares since 2012 mostly at prices well below $150. Despite dramatically falling …
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racoleman29 said: Come on guys. Who can really predict Apple? Nothing to see here...move along. If you can't predict the weather, the solution is to not predict the weather and then claim authoritative insight into the weather from anonymo…
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gmgravytrain said: I like the idea of AR for devices, but the only thing I have seen from Apple in terms of AR is a glorified tape measure app and I'm not sure how useful that is. Apple seems to have been pushing AR for a few years now and …