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gatorguy said:

AppleExposed said:

There's no evidence that Apple ever intended to compete in this market so I find these articles ridiculous.

So you think this is one of those one-off "fun" projects that was never intended on its own to be a competitive success? Serious question. You wouldn't be the first person to hold that opinion, tho Apple did go to a lot of effort in initially promoting it. 

Just guessing, but I think he might have meant Apple never intended to compete in the $50 end of the connected speaker market. I would agree. Just like Apple never intended to compete in the low-end computer, phone, tablet, ("smart") watch markets. While iPods did get fairly affordable over time, they were still more expensive than most competitors that arrived. As we all know, Apple mostly doesn't give a rip about market share but revenue per unit. Can they sell enough to recoup the cost of investment (including man hours) and then enough to invest in the next gen/variants? Then great. If not, it'll get axed.

I have a feeling HP will slowly to catch on. I know I'm chomping at the bit for a couple, but financially, I'm a couple years out. And that's fine with me, I'd rather pay a fair price for something high-quality than fifty bucks for a piece of junk. But that's just me.

PS I can totally see Apple going the iPhone route and continue selling the previous model when the new gen comes out. Boom there's your lower cost option.

AppleInsider said:

 but this time it pulled the 2013 Mac Pro months ahead of time.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro
Huh? 

Anyway, I will say, the nMP had one of the best promo videos of all time.

Damn! I just upgraded wife & I to SE thinking it'd keep us current for a couple years. Hope this intel's incorrect!

Rayer said:

lkrupp said:

Well, then I’m glad we upgraded our iPhone 6’s to iPhone 8’s last year.

That right there (bold text) is enough evidence Apple's naming convention is stupid. Because the "small capital S" is just a lowercase "S" in appearance, you can't use proper grammar when referring to multiple iPhone 6 models without saying/writing like I just did because there is no way to know if I am referring to a single iPhone 6S (the correct way to spell it) or multiple iPhone 6s.

This was figured out years ago. AFAIK it's "Two iPhones 6S".

lkrupp said:

they don't sell parts.

https://www.ifixit.com/Store/iPhone/iPhone-XS-Max-Front-Camera-Assembly/IF407-006?o=1

… IF you’re lucky enough to be in a scarce T-Mobile 4G hot pocket...