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Editorial: Apple's AirPods, iPhone 7, Series 2 Watch out... journalists
Again, Apple is not the first to remove the headphone jack. LePhone and Motorola are the first to the punch. But again based on the magic they show in the keynote event Apple is the first one to get it right. I think reason journalists don't like Apple or bestowed the gloom and doom on Apple is because Apple still dare to think different and spit on those said journalists' face.
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Editorial: Apple's AirPods, iPhone 7, Series 2 Watch out... journalists
For some reason I do like the Apple headphones and buy them from Apple. But for charging cables, boy, even a loyal Apple fan should do them a favor and buy from someone else that are much better quality and cost 1/10th.paxman said:I am super happy about the removal of the audio jack. When I get my iPhone 7 no-one in my house can steal and lose my headphones! For maybe a year, hopefully longer I will be the only one who can use my Lightning headset. There are two Apple products I buy repeatedly, and always more than one at the time - charging cables and head phones. The headphones will no longer be an issue. I wish they had changed the main culprit - the Lightning charging cable. Shoulda been wireless.
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Editorial: Apple's AirPods, iPhone 7, Series 2 Watch out... journalists
First, good job DED as always. Second I thought no one is going to preorder iPhone 7 based on all the negative opinion of the verge, NYT, WSJ etc and slept to my normal woke up hours at 6:30 EDT to order the jet black iPhone 7 plus and what a mistake. Apple users intelligently know what they want and how much they want it. The most intriguing surprises are A10 Fusion, W1, the duel lens and bokeh effect, the AirPods. If the AirPods is truly as magic as the Pencil is I am definitely going to get one and loose the wire, hopefully for ever. I am sure there will be tons of loops to secure the AirPods on sale from Amazon soon. Apple creates a great opportunity for a lot of companies to make lots of money. The journalists outght do reports on that to inform users and companies to make this transition. Instead they just whine like a 3 year old baby. I am delighted by the AirPods, the video showing the making of it, and the video showing the making of jet black iPhone 7. Anyway, looking forward to the coming review of iOS 10, iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, and the tear down, as well as the inevitable gates etc. Also expect more announcements from Cupertino regarding Mac and iPad before the holiday season. If they could throw 50GB of iCloud storage for free then there would be nothing to complain and would help them win a lot of customers.
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Apple fires dozens of Project Titan employees as autonomous car initiative shifts to underlying tec
Oh too bad. Was putting money aside for the Apple Car down payment. With $200B in the bank Apple should shoot for an ambitious project.
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'iPhone 7' preorders rumored to kick off on Sept. 9
interesting on the analysis of "Apple closes its quarters on the last Saturday of each quarter". Apple should lead and do away this kind of non-sense and stick to real calendar quarter. We are living in a digital age.radarthekat said:i don't recall Apple ever scheduling the iPhone event in the week immediately following Labor Day. I think they haven't wanted to force the press to be traveling to Cupertino either immediately after the Labor Day weekend or even on the Sunday of. That would not engender positive feelings, and travel costs would be more expensive. Plus I think Apple smartly lets the press get back into the office and into the swing of things for a week following the long weekend and the summer season before inviting them to travel to Cupertino.
And that leaves two possibilities apart from their usual routine. First, Apple could hold the event prior to Labor Day. I doubt they will do this; it's the summer lull still and reporters will be winding down for the long weekend, so coverage could get delayed or given less effort than Apple would like. The second possible deviation from the norm is that Apple holds the event later in the week following Labor Day, say Wednesday the 7th or Thursday the 8th. If the goal is to capture more orders and ship more units in the quarter, this would help. But if Apple is ready with higher inventory this year, then they could hold the event as they usually do and still have time to fulfill orders with time to spare in the month.
One thing that does suggest Apple might want to get an early start, though, is that Apple closes its quarters on the last Saturday of each quarter, which this year means the 24th. That's earlier than the last several years; from 2012 forward that has fallen on the 29th, 28th, 27th, and 26th. So maybe Apple will switch things up in some manner this year, especially if their guidance for the quarter is to be believed.
Also note that this year is the first since calendar 2011 Q4 (which was Apple's fiscal 2012 Q1 and the first full quarter of iPhone 4S shipments), that the holiday quarter will contain 14 weeks. Analysts and pundits conveniently ignored this the following year when comparing fiscal 2013 Q1 profits to fiscal 2012 Q1 profits, which were flat year over year, regardless how much I shouted in their ears that the same profits in 13 weeks compared to 14 weeks actually equated to a 7.7% increase in profits, when normalized. But you can be sure this year they will be fully cognizant of the extra week, won't bother doing any further math, and will proclaim that any additional units sold or profits achieved are due entirely to the extra week. I can see the headlines now, APPLE SAVED BY EXTRA WEEK IN HOLIDAY QUARTER, or some such.
