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Sirius XM is now a solution looking for a problem. Who would pay $200 per year (the Select package) for a service you can get on your smartphone at half the price. I got six months of free Sirius XM when I bought my new automobile and promptly let it expire. I just plug my iPhone in and use CarPlay to stream whatever I want. To demonstrate what a bad proposition Sirius XM is, after my trial subscription expired I started to get offer after offer from them and the price went down every time until it got to $5/month. I truly don’t understand the acquisition of Pandora when Sirius XM already offers its own app for streaming content. It’s starting to look like it will boil down to Apple and Google or Amazon once again. Spotify will eventually be acquired by somebody, probably Google or Amazon. 

racerhomie3 said:

nunzy said:

That's one reason to love Apple. More of the money we pay goes to Wall Street than any other brand!

Apple doesn't care about market share. Their strategy is to maximize dividends by having the highest profit margins. They could lower prices substantially, but why would they?

I expect them to raise prices until it impacts their ability to increase profits, and then to level off.

By then, all the best richest people will be buying nothing but Apple phones and watches and speakers and cars and jewelry and home automation.

Apple is for people llike us! Watch out Tiffany. Ferrari too!

Stop acting like an idiot. You do realize Apple has $450 phones & $330 iPads, right?

If you haven’t figured it out yet, this @nunzy persona is actually a virile Apple hater pretending to be an insufferable fanboy. It plays the stereotypical fanboy role to the most irritable extreme. He’s actually mocking Apple users and the sooner you block this what-ever-it-is the better. 

jason98 said:

I would never trust 3rd party password tools. Why would Apple not provide iCloud key chain solution out of the box for all password fields? Or is it already available in iOS 12?

Well, Apple has approved 1Password for all employees so I think the issue of trust is moot.

As coincidence would have it I had an appointment with my cardiologist yesterday. I breached the subject of the Apple Watch and he was well aware of it. He told me the medical community is very interested in this development but that they want much more information on how it works, how accurate it is, etc. He also explained his take on the difference between FDA “clearance” and FDA “approval.” The operative word is treatment. If a device is going to be used to actually perform medical treatment, like say the insulin pumps some diabetics wear, that requires FDA approval. The portable EKG machine in his office does not perform medical treatment but is a diagnostic tool he uses and would only require FDA clearance that it works as designed.

Meanwhile I have read a couple of articles from critics who worry that this technology will cause too many false positives, cause more people to go to the emergency room which could affect the availability of prompt medical care for those who really do have a problem. That kinda makes sense I guess.

Then he proceeded to lecture me once more on losing weight and exercising more often. I’m trying, Doc, I’m trying, but that cheesecake is beckoning me.

rogifan_new said:

Very surprised Apple ever announced this on stage. It clearly was vaporware at that point and that’s not something Apple usually makes public. John Gruber things this product is pretty much DOA and will never be released.

Unless management got rolled by promises from engineering and technical problems became worse as time passed. I bet management never saw a working prototype in the lab but took the word of whoever was in charge that it would eventually work. Or it could be something like we hear from the armchair engineers in this forum who blather about how "easy" it would be to add this or that feature/function with out knowing a damn thing about hardware or software engineering. A charging platform that will charge three devices at once? Piece of cake until they actually tried to build the thing.

The real black eye for Apple would be for them to cancel the project and then have Belkin or some other third party manufacturer come out with a working product.