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rotateleftbyte said:

TBH, I hope that Apple does not include MWave in their 5G phones until 2022 at the earliest.

I am sure that there are lots of people out there just waiting to climb on the next 'lets sue Apple' bandwagon.

There are lot of reports out there stating that MWave causes Cancer. I'd wait and let someone else take the sueballs first. Cancer is an emotive subject and not to be trivialised. If you have had it (like me with HCL) you know what I mean.

Even in 2019 we still get the occassional story about 3G/4G phones causing brain cancer. Why chance it while the jury is still out OR at least give users the option of NOT enabling the MWave hardware in the phone.

Does a phone That supports mm-Wave transmit on this frequency?  Or only receive on it?  

If the latter then it won’t matter about your phone supporting it.  The waves are gonna be there piping through you if you’re near a tower that supports it. In this case it won’t be the phone giving you cancer whether your phone supports it or not or even if you aren’t carrying a phone.   It’s the service provider’s, if anyone, who would be the target of any lawsuits.  

That sidebar on how FB will protect privacy under the FTC agreement...  that’s gonna make a lot of FB engineers and tech writers and managers take a hard look at their jobs.  

I don’t mean looking at how they can do their jobs better to protect users’ privacy.  I mean, exercising and selling their vested options and preparing to find another, more interesting and less tedious job.  

I won’t be at all surprised even to see Zuck begin to disengage; go think about some new challenge to direct his enormous funds and limited energies to.  The bloom is off the rose.  

Trust me, my entire career was in software startups and I know when that switch gets flipped and you start disengaging from that thing you previously thought was the coolest thing ever and start thinking about the next thing you want to do with your life.  

There’s really nothing special in the display of a TV.  It’s become a commodity.  Apple has stated, Steve had stated, that Apple is interested only in areas where they can meaningfully differentiate the experience.  Walter doesn’t seem to recall that being stated, as recently as the demise of the Airport products.  

Walter also doesn’t seem to grok the fact that the smartphone, as invented by Apple, has incorporated one after another after another stand-alone product.  The future is in miniaturization of devices that cover what ground the smartphone hasn’t.  That means your wallet, your keys (home and car) and access fobs/cards to work spaces, etc.  Devices that you need to have on your person but shouldn’t need to carry as separate items.  Those go into wearables.  Then there’s augmented reality, which needs to cover your field of view, thus wearable.  Duh!  And how does one create such products, which require even more processing power than what came before yet need to fit in vastly smaller, minimal forms?  By a great deal of R&D and advancement across the industry, including fabrication.  In other words, it will take some time to get there.  You can’t just design physics in a drawing app.  

Bottom line, we don’t need a new Leica camera design.  We don’t need a new tablet/laptop geometry.  We need to make some big leaps to get small.  Steve Martin can relate, Walter apparently cannot.  The word Luddite comes to mind.  

My first Apple product was a MacBook Air, late 2010 model.  Then came an iPod, then the iPhone 4S in 2011.  I made my first investment in Apple shares that year, and also taught myself to trade options.  I’d been let go, the entire management and founder team of my company was replaced, as is the fashion when a big venture capital firm acquired a big stake in a budding startup.  I was out after 26 years in the software startup game.  So I took up my investing hobby as my new career, and have since turned an initial $300k investment in Apple into a position (stock and call spreads) worth about $1.8m, and threw off a lot more along the way that’s now diversified into other holdings.  That was the effect of Apple and the iPhone on my life.  I’ve also owned the 5, 5S, 6 and now 8+.  In October I’ll fly to Hong Kong or Singapore or Bangkok to buy the latest at an official Apple store, being there still are none here in Vietnam where I’m currently hanging out.  

Ironically my career began with a tiny company called Personics and a hardware accessory product for the original Macintosh, called the View Control System, a headset that replaced the mouse to let users have their hands free for typing.  That product initially failed, but found an audience among those without use of their hands; Johnnie Wilder (singer for the funk group Heatwave who was paralyzed in a car accident) used one to compose music on a Mac.  But after our brief foray into Mac hardware accessories we became a software publisher of DOS and Windows titles and I never used a Mac until the end of my career, 26 years later with that MacBook Air I bought for myself after my Windows PC caught yet another virus that wiped it out.  A fateful turn of events.  

iOS_Guy80 said:

Which is another reason that phones cost what they do. Research takes time and money to develop better phones for the future. Smart phones are still a great value compared to so much other “stuff” people buy.

And all the stuff they replace.  That list is long and no longer filling landfills with dozens of separate products.  How many of us have an alarm clock radio these days?  Or a camcorder.  Or separate digital camera?  Or calculator, etc.