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  • Apple's new iPhone 12 may look like an iPad Pro; smaller HomePods in 2020

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    avon b7 said:
    Yeah, the big HomePod was SUCH a hit, we need a small one. 

    Make it work with a typical TV or shut it down. 
    I help but get the impression that you don’t get what the HomePod is for. 
    I think part of his criticism is precisely that it should be for more. It would be nice if they widened its scope a bit. A smaller version makes sense as long as it doesn't cost a fortune to have a main unit and a few smaller secondary units for smaller rooms. 
    I think the proper comparison of the HomePod is more to the Sonos One series, and not google home or Alexa. They were designed first as quality speakers, then as assistants. Amazon and Google speakers were designed with inverse priorities.  


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  • On its own, AirPods could be a $175 billion enterprise

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    What I would like to see is a round up of everybody who commented that Apple was out of its mind to pay $3 billion for the acquisition  of Beats  a few years ago. Likely a future article for DED if he did not already write one. 
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  • Notes of interest from Apple's Q4 2018 earnings report and conference call

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    Someone had a good point about the buybacks. They noted that they likely had to stop buying for a period of time when they knew sales were off before and perhaps shortly after the announcement as that could have been a form of insider buying.
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  • Apple still undecided on fingerprint tech for 'iPhone 8,' no shipments until October

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    supadav03 said:
    Good to hear that the rear finger print censor rumor has been put to rest. Even if there's difficulty I like that they have resolved to have it in the display. Still don't understand the iPhone 7S & 8 release. I just have no idea why anyone would consider an 7S with the 8 coming out at same time or right around the corner. 
    Apple has many client types. They sell the SE very well along the top tier models and also sell year old phones which millions of people buy, not to mention refurb phones older than a year. 
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  • Google's Android Wear 2.0 plays catch-up with Apple's watchOS 3, offers some unique touche...

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    amarkap said:
    Let me just put in my (possibly worthless) two cents, I think where Apple nailed it is with the bands.  I know with all the other technologies these things offer, putting emphasis on the band is pretty silly right?  Well, not in my opinion.  The thing that makes Apple Watches so appealing outside of their technology is they just look darn awesome with their bands.  There are so many to choose from and Apple does a great thing by showing you a Watch face and colors and complement that band perfectly.  These Android Wear 2.0 watch while cool...I think don't have very appealing bands.  I suppose it is all subjective, but like I said just my two cents.  I'm glad Apple put as much thought into their bands as the watch itself.

    By the way, I was an early adopter and got my Apple Watch only a few weeks after it was initially released.  Back then, hardly anyone had one on.  This year, I see them on so many people.  Each one with a different type of band...so happy to Apple for gaining market share.

    One thing that does concern me is that Apple has made such a great product that people won't want to upgrade often.  I mean I have no reason to buy another.  My 1st generation works just fine for me.  I am only concerned because again people will say YoY decline in Apple Watch sales because no one will want to upgrade like me.  This is what happened with their iPad.  It is not that the iPad is bad product it is just it is such a good product that hardly anyone needs to buy the latest and greatest.
    This is a very important point. Apple understood early on that Watch would not just be a wrist computer but a piece of fashion jewelry. They went a bit far with the gold but were smart in teaming with Hermes and keeping a high end ceramic version. Very few want to wear something that looks geeky or that everyone else has. Apple's other huge advantage here is that with one big platform now, their ecosystem of third party bands and accessories is so much larger. Also, Android's fragmentation is so much greater here - think of all the phone/watch combinations to support. Even reading the article - if your watch is round and has this feature then you get that feature of the software. How about updates, etc. The other killer feature in my opinion is AirPods. Using them with Watch is great. Watch becomes a wireless iPod. Finally, as to eventual year over year comparisons when market saturated, it is what it is. I think that is years away. I think also that as Watch becomes even better, AirPods, and other hardware accessories improve, it makes more people want to switch to the Apple ecosystem.
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