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lkrupp said:

Regarding climate change and one’s carbon footprint. Does Tim Cook drive an electric vehicle? Does Time Cook use public transportation to get to work? When he flies to China does Tim Cook travel coach on a common carrier or does he fly in the Apple corporate jet? Or is he the same kind of hypocrite that Al Gore is with his three mansions and private jets? You see, this is the kind of thing we peasants wonder about. When the BIG changes the climate advocates want are implemented will the elites still travel in luxury or will they be squeezed into mass transit cigar tubes like the rest of us will be? When we peasants are reduced to rationed heating and cooling will theTim Cooks of the world still be nice and cool in their mansions? Don’t squawk about renewable clean energy when there’s absolutely no hope of that energy source ever catching up with the exponential growth of energy demands. Nuclear Fusion is still a pipe dream that’s been promised for the last sixty years at least with no commercial reactor in sight.

Ironically, Trump's Tariffs may be the best thing to come along to fight global warming.   Local production of products eliminates carbon generated in moving goods around the world including iPhones and computers.   Latest news seems to be that the Chinese are still boycotting Apple products because of Trump.      Maybe Cook should wise up and move production out of China.

rogifan_new said:

gatorguy said:

OMG! It's about time, Google is plainly doomed now.

Desperation has set in, so much so that they're now deciding to offer smartphones at multiple price points with minor differences in capabilities and a mid-cycle release. What's wrong with just a couple of flagships, same time every year? Who does this, offering cheaper devices alongside "expensive", unless they're failing?

DED is obviously worried this device could cut into iPhone sales. It’s getting decent reviews (a good phone at a very good price) and will be on more carriers. There would be no reason to give it attention otherwise.

I tend to agree with you that DED seems to publish these articles when Apple has had bad news or Google positive news.     I would have some respect for him if he actually used a review unit for a week or two and then wrote a hard hitting, but fair review of the device.    Some smart phone reviewers I don't trust like Deiter Bohn for theVerge while I really appreciate the reviews by Nilay Patel and Vlad Savov.    In fact Victor Marks had a great podcast a month ago with Vlad.    I would say one of AI's best since the other AI journalists never sound to interested in being there.

That said I take it as fact that Apple has better build quality than Samsung and Samsung's better build quality is better than the Google Pixel build quality.    I base than upon 1.   hearing android fans Patel and Bohn basically admit that on their podcast and 2.  Android central published a long list of hardware/software issues after the Pixel 2/2XL came out and then this past year the Pixel 3 was considered worse.   Build quality is one reason why I hold on to my iPhone 7Plus and 8Plus (despite its poor Intel modem) and I will look forward to getting an iPhone in 2019 or 2020 when they finally return to having QualComm modems.

The cheaper Pixel may be smart move for Google because android users generally buy cheaper phones.   but they still need to raise their QA standards.    

The economy is great.   Now's the time for a Trade War.    It's obvious China isn't helping with  North Korea.   Time for Tariffs on FoxxConn made iPhones.   They will regret not building the factory in Wisconsin.

Apple Arcade will be the Disney+ of Gaming..   It will probably be a hit in its own right, but may cannibalize some existing sales.   But over all very positive.   Apple doesn't need to have everyone sign up to every service, but by having a diversity (News+, TV+, Arcade, Credit Card, Music) they will add continually revenue.   Sounds like a great win for them.

More importantly adding mouse Support to the iPad could pull even more new customers to services and lead to more enterprise development.  Marzipan + A series Apps + mouse iPad Apps = more enterprise development.    WINTEL can go the way of the IBM mainframe.   Unfortunately we are only at the start of that transition.

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OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

A better question: How will Google Stadia, its streaming video game service, affect Apple Arcade? When you compare the quality of games, Stadia will be the hands down winner. The only question is whether Google can crack the video quality and latency issues.

No doubt impressive technology. But Stadia was designed by engineers thinking about themselves. How well does it work mobile? Does it load offline games? How do those play on $250 androids, you know the statistical middle ASP majority? 

If it works well on premium phones, it will be yet another reason to buy a high end iPhone. If it doesn’t, it will be limited to the, say the nicer minority of  installed base of Chromebooks and $1000 Galaxy S. That’s not a platform worth targeting with anything but ads. 

Arcade will be come the Netflix or the Disney+ of Games because it will be a fixed price.  It will be very popular with parents.    Of apples 4 services announced in March (News+, TV+, Arcade, and Credit Card) probably fee will get all of them but there will probably be many who get one of them and a few with get a 2-4.    I think Apple will be looking good in the financials even if the iPhone sales slow down to upgrading once every 4 years.