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spice-boy said:

Ssmsung makes very good tvs, appliances and more importantly phones which rival the iPhone. Consumers are fickle and the once fetish like product iPhone is just another mobile phone option although very expensive one at that. Think about with the release of every iPhone a Samsung is used at the best comparison by tech critics. I am not ready to switch to Samsung I just believe a younger generation does not necessarily feel they owe anything to Apple or it's products.

American teenagers prefer iPhone far above any other brand, at least as of 2018. 

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2018/04/iphones-popularity-continues-to-increase-among-us-teens.html

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-use-teens-2018/

Just pulled this off my XR. Must be my lucky day. 

davgreg said:

The question I have regarding USB C is who signed off on this dumpster fire. Were Steve Jobs alive he would not OK the mess cables and dongles have become on Apple devices.

You’re kidding right? I have two drawers full of old cables and adapters going all the way back to Apple Desktop Bus and SCSI. I have an old Ethernet transceiver. I have terminators. I have VGA cables, VGA to DVI connectors. Serial cables, parallel cables. 30 pin iPod cables. All of which Steve Jobs “signed off” on. 

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

If this were the only shortcoming of the new iPads there would be reason to get upset. As it stands, Apple's walled garden has shut out the iPad Pro from the pro market. iOS is seen as a toy operating system. It makes it impossible to do so many things that pros need to do like manage thousands of files or compile code or manage a network or ...

I do rigging at professional concert venues. I watched an audio engineer walk around our 19,000 person arena with an iPad pulling faders up and down on his Audio desk during the sound check for Metallica. 
I have seen lighting guys do the same thing. 
I’ve seen this at 30,000 person outdoor shows. Not to mention the thousand other times I’ve seen them used on stage for various things. 
Use cases vary, but iOS is certainly not a toy. If you want a hammer that drives screws as well, you’re out of luck. 

ajl said:

512ke said:

I hope we all get used to it. Personally i don't like having to re learn basic functions or to discover that previous functionality has quietly disappeared. I guess it's the price of progress!

It's not progress, but the lack of Steve, I believe.

Come on now, enough invoking the ghost of SJ. 
Apple gave us a new button to push. Big deal. It’s not like they changed the whole UI.