charlesn

The internets never forget. Let's take a walk down memory lane with this Jon Prosser video, where he "corrects" his previous prediction that Apple Watch 7 absolutely, positively was getting a flat-sided redesign with the renders to "prove" it... which, of course, did not happen... by stating that his prediction was just a year early and that Apple Watch 8 absolutely, positively was getting a flat-sided redesign with the renders to "prove" it... which, of course, also did not happen. It's worth noting that when Apple Watch 10 finally got a redesign, it STILL did not include the predicted flat-sides. So yeah, sure, iPhones are getting this hideous camera bar and here are the renders to prove it, blah, blah, blah. 

The watch portion of the video starts at 3:00... 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK2OxfeznYM

Fun fact: Apri 28th will mark 15 years since Apple bought Siri. To put that in context: the current iPhone at that time was the 3GS. And here we are, a decade and a half later, and Siri still can't reliably tell you what's on your calendar for today. This is why, in an otherwise all-Apple household, I'm still using 7-year-old Echo Dots for Alexa to operate voice-controlled appliances. Alexa has no problem parsing requests to set lights by specific percentages of brightness, or color or color temperature for my white lights. Or filling pots with specific amounts of water at specific temperatures from my kitchen faucet. Or setting a sous vide device to a specific temperature and then starting it. Etc. Meanwhile, Siri still struggles with today's calendar and so many other voice assistant 101 tasks. smh

It's hard not to think that there is truly something about Siri that is irreparably broken. One can only imagine how much money and resources Apple has thrown at this problem by now. How can we still be HERE after 15 years? How could the "Siri promised land" of 18.4 possibly be such an embarrassment upon its first release? How could Siri actually be WORSE? "Delayed" is an acceptable excuse for the launch of an all-new feature. But it's no excuse for Siri, who's about to celebrate her quinceañera.  

Oh look! They've installed air bags on iPhone 17! Clever! I guess the gyroscope detects the phone is falling and immediately deploys the bag from that hideous hump. Who says Apple can't innovate any longer?!

Mike Wuerthele said:

charlesn said:

mike1 said:

Oh, please!

Why would anyone expect this model to sell out or be in short supply on opening day?!

It was released outside of the usual September hype and its media coverage.

It is not targeted to power users or enthusiasts who will want to upgrade and order on day 1.

I would bet the vast majority of customers for this model don't yet know about it or will never know about it until they need/want to buy a new phone for whatever reason. The typical SE customer is not eagerly awaiting the release date of a new phone.

100%. I'm embarrassed for Gallagher that he would even publish this kind of drivel for which he must know the obvious answers. Yeah, this was a big deal in the Apple-obsessed corner of the techosphere echo chamber. But out there in the real world? Not so much. Awareness that the 16e even exists is minimal right now, yet Gallagher wonders aloud why no shipping delays yet as if something must be amiss. Of course, Apple marketing will make sure the 16e becomes a very well-known new model, but that marketing push hasn't really started yet. This kind of stupidity drives me nuts. 

Every SE was constrained at launch, minutes after they went on sale.

The 16e is not. That in itself is noteworthy, whether or not it's obvious to you. 

If you wish to continue your unwarranted diatribe against William, feel free to do so in DM.

With all due respect, Mike, it actually is not noteworthy. We just saw this kind of "connecting of dots that don't actually connect" with the launch of the iPhone 16, when the rumor mill started buzzing that it wasn't selling well because wait times on Apple's website were either non-existent or shorter than they had been for past iPhone launches. This rumor was nonsense, as we now know, and those more interested in facts than rumor-mongering pointed out that no conclusion could be reached about how it was selling without knowing how Apple's stock-on-hand compared with past launches. Same applies for the 16e. And the AI headline that "there's no big rush to to buy the 16e yet" is based on the same faulty assumption that no wait times on Apple's website for delivery means no big rush, but you can't know what it means without knowing the stock Apple has for the launch. This is also not an SE "replacement" in any real sense--Apple not only dropped the SE from the lineup, but abandoned the whole idea of an aggressively low-priced entry iPhone. The 16e is a very new phone for Apple in terms of its mix of features and price point--a $599 buying decision is very different from one at $429--and I think it will take some time and some marketing for buyers to assess whether the 16e, the 15 or the 16 is the right iPhone for them. 

mike1 said:

Oh, please!

Why would anyone expect this model to sell out or be in short supply on opening day?!

It was released outside of the usual September hype and its media coverage.

It is not targeted to power users or enthusiasts who will want to upgrade and order on day 1.

I would bet the vast majority of customers for this model don't yet know about it or will never know about it until they need/want to buy a new phone for whatever reason. The typical SE customer is not eagerly awaiting the release date of a new phone.

100%. I'm embarrassed for Gallagher that he would even publish this kind of drivel for which he must know the obvious answers. Yeah, this was a big deal in the Apple-obsessed corner of the techosphere echo chamber. But out there in the real world? Not so much. Awareness that the 16e even exists is minimal right now, yet Gallagher wonders aloud why no shipping delays yet as if something must be amiss. Of course, Apple marketing will make sure the 16e becomes a very well-known new model, but that marketing push hasn't really started yet. This kind of stupidity drives me nuts.