melgross

sroussey2 said:

It’s worrying that Apple stopped putting the most advanced available Qualcomm modems in their newest handsets. I suppose then the comparisons will be easier. But we have to get less sophisticated and less power efficient modems now so Apple can save face later.

Where did you read that? It’s a big claim.

hmlongco said:

Calvinator said:

When you run out of ideas, you make up a solution for a non-problem and pass it off as the reason to upgrade way more often than necessary.

Tim Cook's obsession with thinness and pretty new colors for existing products is embarrassing. 

Steve Jobs would never, and I mean never, allow Apple's user experience to get so out of control.

I'd submit that Apple knows their customer base better than you do. They've done more research than you have. And that they know their customers like colors. If anything, they've often been chastised for having too few.

And as to Steve, I really, really, really, really, really wish people would stop channeling the ghost of someone they don't know and have never met in an attempt to bolster their own weak arguments. I guess they do that when they run out of ideas.

You remember, do you not, when Steve came back to Apple and induced the iMac? In colors?????????

And then later on introduced dozens upon dozens of iPods... in colors?????????

Or when Apple reintroduced the iMac line? in colors?????????

Exactly. I would prefer it if people would just talk about what THEY would, or wouldn’t like, rather than trying to impress it upon others as though everyone agreed. If everyone agreed, there would be one phone manufacturer, selling one phone model, with no options. As far as I can tell, that’s not happening.

it’s correct to mention whether something sold well, or not. I remember a number of years ago, after the “other” phone manufacturers stopped making their keyboarded models, that there was a movement to make a new keyboard phone. A couple of manufacturers tried, and a couple made just add on keyboards. But it always seems that the smaller the group, the more vocal they are and the “we want a keyboard” group was pretty loud. But it turned out that, at most, a million people around the world wanted one. That’s a failure from the beginning.

Apple make fewer phone models than other major makers. So their philosophy is to make iconic phones (or anything they make, really), and sell a lot of each, rather than small numbers of lots of models. At one time, Nokia had 225 different phones. Yeah, Apple’s not going to do that.

Of course some people will want this. The question is how many? Anyone here remember when “people wanted” a cheaper iPhone and so app,EU came out with the 5c? They so,d millions, but not enough for Apple to continue making a polycarbonate back phone. So, if this phone is going to g to be real, it will be interesting to see the take up. There must be some reason Apple thinks this will sell well enough, assuming that’s really what they’re thinking.

anonymouse said:

melgross said:

That’s not really far. I’ve done more than that through Manhattan many times over the years. It’s at most a 25 minute walk, depending on traffic lights. Often, it takes less time. I can make it in 15 minutes the way I walk. 

Now that jaywalking is officially legal.

I wouldn’t walk cross 5th avenue most of the day during a red light. At least, not if you expect to get to the other side.

That’s not really far. I’ve done more than that through Manhattan many times over the years. It’s at most a 25 minute walk, depending on traffic lights. Often, it takes less time. I can make it in 15 minutes the way I walk. At any rate, the distance from the 5th ave store isn’t relevant. They’re two separate entities.