sflagel

mike1 said:

dutchlord said:

What “super cycle”?? The tentpole feature should be Apple Intelligence which will not be available in my region (EU).  So Apple misses a 500 million people market with the iPhone16. 

You can thank your EU overlords for that.

I think you meant democratically elected governments that represent the wishes of the inhabitants (rightly or wrongly) to keep personal data private and secure; and who will likely engage in discussions to ensure data used by AI cannot be traced back to the individual. “Overlords” generally refers to rulers that obtained their power through conquest using military and financial means. 
Can Americans not ever have a discussion without becoming political; it’s exhausing. Let it be man, let other societies organise themselves how they want. Go buy a Kinder egg. 

I *want* reasons to upgrade. I can’t find any. 

Stabitha_Christie said:

sflagel said:

Am I wrong to believe that animals are not killed for their leather alone? Would it not be better to source real leather, certified to be a by-product only?

Some animals are raised specifically for leather but the majority of leather is a byproduct of the meat industry. 

But that is a moot point. Apple didn’t move away from leather due  concerns about animal welfare. They moved away from leather because the process of taking a hide and making it into a leather product is environmentally taxing.  There are processes to produce leather that more environmentally friendly but they aren’t scalable and they skew to being more expensive. 

The hides themselves can be used in other ways that aren’t as rough on the environment so it’s not like they are going to waste if they aren’t converted to leather.  

The leather industry itself has been in decline for a decade. There are various reasons for this and the reality is that Apple is just joining the rest of the world in dumping leather. 

You make a good point about the production process, something I did not consider. (Although to be fair, I am not sure if the production and life-cycle of fine-woven plastic bands is better.) As so many things, understanding and taxonomising the full life-cycle is difficult; humanity needs to find a way to price all factors of production: price is the only communication / data transfer that works its way fairly reliably through the value chain.

Am I wrong to believe that animals are not killed for their leather alone? Would it not be better to source real leather, certified to be a by-product only?

Still, nowhere near as nice as the Logitech Base Wireless Charging for the iPad 10.5 inch.

Why is Apple so opposed to wireless charging of iPads?