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  • Fitbit's new financial worries are just its latest in a long line

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    AppleExposed said:
    seanismorris said:
    Now. Now. No gloating.

    The reality is when Apple entered the market everyone else was regulated to mid to low end.  It’s tough to make money without a premium product.  No platform = no premium product.

    This feels like Blackberry, which switched to Android to run Google Apps.  I don’t know the status of the watch project with Google...

    But, maybe they can reinvent themselves with Google’s help... 
    Forgot to add:

    Fitbit making knockoff Apple Watches is their downfall. They had a perfectly original, functional, innovative band that people called "Fitbits". Maybe Fitbit thought their bands would go the way of iPod but now they're chasing the Apple knockoff market which suffers from high volume, low profit. Ask Samsung or anyone else who chases Apples market. You just cannot be better at being Apple than Apple.

    I believe the choice between a "Fitbit"(band) and an Apple Watch is harder than Fitbit Versa Vs. Apple Watch where it's a no-brainer. At least their bands are different and serve a different market. This causes knockoffs to only be able to compete on price, which history has shown us and Fitbit is now adjusting which of course lands you in the high volume/low profit conundrum.
    Agree; Fitbits are companions to traditional watches, worn on the opposite wrist. They should stay in that market which will always exist and which neither Apple not Samsung will want to compete in. 
    AppleExposedctt_zhllamawatto_cobra

  • Hands on with Apple's FaceTime Attention Correction feature in iOS 13

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    It seems then that the adjustment is done on the sender's phone, using the TrueDepth camera, but arguably, a modification could also be done at the receiving end, although maybe not as natural looking?
    cornchip

  • iOS 13 beta fixes FaceTime eye contact with image manipulation

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    Finally. 
    StrangeDayslolliver

  • Apple Pay Express Transit arriving in London in next few months

    sflagelsflagel
    Sounds good. Using the iPhone on the tube is painful, more so with Face ID where you have to position your face awkwardly over the phone, than with Touch ID. Very practical with an Apple Watch, though.

    Arguably, Face ID make the iPhone less convenient for payments in most real-world situations...
    spice-boywilliamlondon

  • Powerbeats Pro are better headphones than AirPods, but won't replace them

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    dewme said:
    Unfortunately for my wallet, the best solution with Apple devices that target two different use cases, e.g., AirPods vs Powerbeats, iPad Mini vs iPad Pro, is "both." Since this is not always practical I have to make a choice that ends up being a compromise solution - like pretty much everything else in life. This article is certainly helpful for making a choice, and I'm grateful that Apple allows us choices. Of course there are other non-Apple choices as well, but the wireless pairing technology that Apple provides with these devices is so seriously awesome that I struggle to consider anything other than Apple in this product category. Maybe I'm too picky, but whenever a wireless device gives me a hard time with pairing, or stutters/skips when it is clearly within range of the host, it incrementally erodes my confidence in the product. At some point I no longer want to go through the hassle of using it and it ends up in a drawer with all of the other misfit toys that no longer get played with.
    I do wonder if the choice that Apple now offer really is such a good thing. As you say, this choice always compels us to either buy all versions of one product (and be sad for having so much kit), or, if we cannot afford all versions, be sad for not having the other version.

    The beauty of "old" Apple was that there was only one new (and one old) product, so when you had it, you were happy, you had all you could ever want and you KNEW you had the best possible product that exists (the other options from Samsung were laughable). Now, there is always another "great" Apple option because the variables are not always of incremental value, they are just "different"... You have the Xs Max, you sometimes wish you had bought the Xs; you have an IPadPro, you sometimes preferred the large iPadPro; whoch is better for travelling iMacPro or Air (sometimes one, sometimes the other), and so on.
    watto_cobra