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BMW confirms it will not support CarPlay Ultra
Blackwhitepanda said: I am pretty sure that Apple will find a compromise with the rest of OEMs.Premium brands like BMW or Mercedes will limit or will not support Apple Car, but there are tons of others like Stellantis, Dacia etc., which have no capability of developing their own eco-system. -
Apple's Epic gamble: birthright citizenship ruling cited to overturn antisteering mandate
VERY interesting article. Thanks, Wesley! Off-topic but wanted to mention: I seem to be running into a lot of ads covering content lately on AppleInsider--not sure what that's about, but it happened again repeatedly as I tried to get through this story. No issue with ads here, in general, you've gotta pay the bills, but the ads covering content, which don't go away, are really annoying. -
iPhone Fold will dominate the market despite 2026 arrival
AppleZulu said:A folding iPhone isn't going to happen. There are nonsensical red flags all over the prognostications on this concept. As noted here, the release date is always just around the corner. The original predictions would've had it out three years ago. Now the latest have it out a year or more from now, but with the same folding screen Samsung already has already developed. So this means we're supposed to believe that Apple has taken an extra five years to create a folding phone that is literally no different or better than the competition.
Apple is famously late to the party with new products, but it's because they've taken time to reimagine the whole idea and produce something that has intrinsic usefulness that's lacking in the existing competition, which is always satisfied with the novel, regardless of actual utility. The iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and AirPods all reimagined existing concepts. These things didn't just replace mp3 players, smart phones, tablets, smart watches and wireless ear buds. They re-defined those categories. In doing so, Apple did better than being first to release something by instead becoming the first that anyone thinks of.
Showing up five years late with an Apple-branded folding Samsung phone that breaks no new ground doesn't do any of that. Why would anyone believe that this is something Apple is actually going to do? -
iPhone 17 Air rumored to shrink battery & lean on iOS 26 to keep up
macgui said:dijital said:Who keeps asking Apple for an even thinner iPhone with worse battery life? I’ve never met anyone with those requirements.charlesn said:retrogusto said:I would love it if they could make something with the same thickness (6.9mm), weight (129g) and battery life as the iPhone 6 from 2014 (or in that ballpark) but with more modern specs. And maybe they should devote more resources to developing really great battery cases for people who don’t mind the bulk but need more battery life.
I can more accurately speculate that everyone or nearly everyone who wanted a smaller phone bought a mini. -
iPhone Fold will dominate the market despite 2026 arrival
"Gurman goes on to say that Apple is also embracing the foldable iPhone design now, because it is extremely popular in China."
Really? Folding phones at the $2,000+ price point are "extremely popular" as in generating high volume sales? I find that hard to believe. For sure, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, etc. have some truly impressive folding phones in that price category and above--Oppo's Find N5 that's under 9mm thick when folded and sports a Hasselblad-developed camera system is a real knockout--but this is not a volume sales price point.