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larrya said:

macplusplus said:

All those failed devices try to catch some niche market positions against Apple Watch. Futile anyway...

"Failed"?  Premature much?  Fitbit outsells AW. 

In 2008, pagers outsold iPhones. 

cnocbui said:

redraider11 said:

"No reason" to get rid of the headphone jack? You mean other than the fact that less holes in the phone mean better sealing from water and dust right? Or what about the fact that it is an old technology that eventually will fade out. There are other reasons too, but to say no reason is extremely ignorant. 

If you can seal the lightning port, it is trivial to apply the same technique used to a headphone jack, or speaker port or microphone port.  Samsung managed it on the S7, I am sure Apple can manage to do the same.

The wheel is old technology, the asymetric airfoil used in the wings of planes is old tech, as are propellers, speaker drivers, bearings, hinges, doors and about a million other things.   New isn't necessarily better.

The principle criteria for evaluating something like this is is it 'better', not it's date of invention.

The wheel is fundamental in mechanical physics. The headphone jack is tech that was good in it's day. Everything is going bluetooth. Go to any gym or airplane and see all the unused headphone ports. Now if you could connect a cord to your lightning port where one end had a magsafe, Then you could use that to connect any BT device for charging, pairing, enhanced function. Apple sees the headphone jack slowly becoming worthless. What usually happens is Apple rolls out the standard and the industry adapts. 

I just don't understand the metric. Let's say Localytics has a tracking code in FB app. So it notes that you logged into FB on a given device. I got my SE on Sat. So I logged into FB on my 5S and my new SE on the same day. Wouldn't this negate penetration rate as a percent? You would need to know which models came into the market and which models left (if they even left at all). Does this metric just keep all the previous phones listed as active and just add the new ones? Similar with the iPads. You don't throw away an old iPad, you hand it down or push it to the side a bit. So selling 5 million in a sea of 25 million existing is greater than 5 million in a sea of 50 million existing. 

My other note. I suspect the reveal of the SE pushed some to upgrade to 6S. Perhaps they were waiting to see if the SE has that one killer feature. Seeing it did not, they splurged on the 6S. I almost did.

mubaili said:

So a battery case first, now a screen protector installation, Apple is trying to grab as much revenue as possible without any consideration to third party and small vendors. Why are Apple so stingy? Can't they just focus on making the screen resist to scratch and shattering? Shame in Apple!

The screen is resist to scratch and shattering. That's the whole point of Gorilla Glass. The other advantage is that it functions properly. If you want completely shatterproof, replace your screen with Tungsten metal. Oh you can't see through it? So at what threshold do you compromise performance for protection? 

Dang, I'm going to miss unchecking the "Install toolbar with ads" button every other month.