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wood1208 said:

4 years replacement cycle sounds unreasonable. People go at most 2 1/2 to 3 years most.

I used to be a 2year upgrader. But Apple prices now have made me choke and hold off the last two years. I was absolutely ready to buy an iPhone X but just can’t stomach the price. OK, here comes the XS, I’ll get that..... what? They raised the price again! Choke again, OK iPhone 11?.... 

It’s always been a case of you couldn’t give me an Android for free but the thought of switching to Android has actually crossed my mind now. 

My iPhone 6 is looking like a 5year upgrade cycle. 

I live in Perth Western Australia. I agree that google maps is far more accurate with time estimates, finding locations, businesses entered. However I use Apple maps 95% of the time as I prefer the user interface and would rather have gooles hands down my pants as little as possible. When time is critical or a wrong location, in a rush ect. I’ll use Google maps.

i often feel with Siri, Apple Maps ect that it may work better if I lived in California and spoke with an American accent.  

ajminnj said:

Siri and Apple maps both have the same problem: Apple Search.  Siri is usually right on in turning what I said into text.  It is what it does with that text that things go wrong.  Beside the whole general here is a web page, the results are often wrong.  If I take the exact same words (including the few that Siri does get wrong) and type them into Google, it gets it right.  

Apple Maps is the same way.  If I give it an exact address, the directions and interface are perfect.  But if the address is slightly off it might direct you a few states over.  I had one time where I gave it an address and the suffix was wrong (street vs avenue) but the rest of the address including the zip code was right.  It actually gave me directions to another town.  I looked up the correct address in google and pasted it into apple maps and then I was fine.  

If they can fix Apple Search, both products will be so much better.

hucom2000 said:

I don't agree with the end-of-the-world tone of some of the posts. That's just dramatizing for attention.

I do notice however, that I'm having a tougher time defending Apple's product prices. In discussions with friends I mostly share my outrage about them. I think twice about buying something and often don't do it, because I can't "justify it". That's a big change for a 30+ year loyal Apple-fan-boy. 

From my perspective, it's about time Apple's hits a rough patch. It can only benefit us, it's customers. They've clearly gone too far. Innovation & expensive is ok. Greed is not. A correction is very much needed. If they are stubborn about it, the market will do the work for them.

It's like they are too concerned with themselves (as a company). Reminds me of good old Rome. Building palaces right up to the fall.

Spot on! This is exactly how I feel and talk to my friends  about Apple now. I’ve got a 2008 Macbook and an iPhone 6. If Apple hadn’t kept pushing and pushing the price on the MacBooks, I would have bought at least 2-3 replacements by now. Regarding iPhones, I bought the 3,4,5 and 6.... then I skipped 7,8,X and XS. I was so ready to buy an X or an XS as I want several features as well as a major speed boost from my groaning iPhone 6. But their current prices, let alone how that translates here into Australian dollars is truely mind melting. 

I’m totally disgusted with Apple now. I view myself as a pragmatic buyer who sees the value in getting what you pay for and particularly sees the whole value proposition in the Apple ecosystem but now it seems like buying Apple products  is more akin to buying Gucci or Prada. 

10 years ago, you could really see Apple’s market share expanding on the street here, where it critical mass was lifting and including 
more people than just  professionals and well healed buyers. 

I want Apple to succeed but currently, I hope they hurt just to give them a slap and wake up before things really go off the rails. 

There is no chance of me switching from iOS to Android but as I switched from MacOS 9 to Windows in 2001 (and back to MacOS in 2008)
the Mac pricing/value proposition is what might make me change this time, not the crashing OS. 

oberpongo said:

Hope the withings founders buy back their company and continue to develop health accessories. Forget the watch, though! But scales, blood pressure, thermometers and sleep monitors are great companions to the Apple health eco system. 

My thoughts exactly. I’ve had Withings smart scale for 7years and it hasn’t missed a beat.

I groaned when Nokia bought them out. I had all Nokia phoned before I bought the iPhone 3G as I loved their simple straightforward software and elegant hardware. Unfortunately, when more features and complexity arrived in phones, they couldn’t figure out how to keep their OS intuitive and it became a mess.

The Nokia health app is ok but I much preferred Withings own app. Nokia don’t seem to do anything special with user interfaces now.

As far as the Nokia brand goes, it’s permanently damaged. What’s the first thing you think of when you see NOKIA? Probably,
-Complacent phone company who got their head knocked off by Apple and never  recovered.
-Their forced arranged marriage to Microsoft who were as clueless as Nokia had become themselves.

Not really positive images that make you trust  a brand and want to use their products.

Give it up! The Nokia brand has worse than zero value now, let it die. It probably would rather die after being tampered with by MS anyway.