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smaffei said:

The fact that this opinion piece exists means that the fanboy base is worried. 

They should be.

Nonsense.

The only time we would be worry when Apple stop trying.

macxpress said:

tokyojimu said:

McJobs said:

No redesign, no deal.

Be careful what you wish for. A new slimmer chassis might eliminate several ports.

A redesign doesn't necessarily need to mean a slimmer computer. They can redesign the iMac without making it any thinner than it already is. Just getting rid of the chin and making it all glass in the front with zero bezels would I think do wonders for it.

That would overheat the iMac faster during intense processing period. I would suggest to improve the cooling system without the chin first before removing the bezel. Unlike bezeless monitor, iMac monitor is also where CPU and GPU reside.

jbdragon said:

Apple did the bare minimum on this tablet they could get away with. It's a tablet that like a number of Apple products seems to get ignored.

Apple of Apple's products should be getting yearly updates and they don't. Some go for years with no updates, but worse of all, the prices still don't drop. The tech gets older and older and the prices stay the same.

It's not fair to say that Apple only did the bare minimum on this tablet considering a number of improvements they added: 

• A12 Bionic chip with 64‑bit architecture
• Neural Engine
• Embedded M12 coprocessor
• Retina display
• 7.9-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit Multi-Touch display
• 2048-by-1536 resolution at 326 pixels per inch (ppi)
• Wide colour display (P3)
• True Tone display
• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
• Fully laminated display
• Antireflective coating
• 1.8 per cent reflectivity
• 500 nits brightness
• Supports Apple Pencil
• etc

I would say Apple also perfectly targeting the right price range market.

gatorguy said:

Aloysius said:

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magman1979 said:

Wow, talk about a blatant rip-off of the AirPods! Absolutely disgusting!

Companies like Scamsung and Huawei will never learn, this is their DNA; lie, cheat, steal, defraud until you get caught, then pay the fees, and rinse and repeat!

These look NOTHING like the AirPods. use a completely different form-factor, and have features and functions Apple's product does not, just as Apple's product has a unique iconic look and Apple-specific features. How are they a "blatant ripoff"? In your haste to comment are you confusing images of the AirPods in the AI article as images of Samsung's product?

The case design is dramatically similar, as well as the the OS interaction when the case opens. They even did the same "card" that pops up at the bottom of the screen with a white background.



Tell me that doesn't look nearly identical to AirPods + iPhone. 

The case design is "dramatically similar"? What cases are YOU looking at. One is upright and  relatively tall and narrow. The other lays flat, is oval,  and is smaller overall. Yeah, they both have software screens that are white. Gosh nearly twins!

I agree with general opinion here, the new Samsung buds looks like Apple Airpods. Notice I don't use 'exactly' because the details are somewhat different, but the resemblance is uncanny enough for me to call this a copy.

Apple would go for AR route instead of VR, judging from Cook's comments regarding the matter (which could be the opposite for all we know). But to design a lightweight wearable glasses, AR is the only way. Less power and data transfer will be required. All the software needs to do will be transmitting information from iPhone to the glasses and adding them as an interactive layer on top of whatever we're looking at. Obviously Apple needs a robust visual recognition first for this to work flawlessly. As for the physical design, anything that looks simple like Airpods and Apple Watch would be just fine.

AR is OLD news. It has been around for years now which got its start, around 2007-2008 (?), with QR codes on books and toys. There is nothing revolutionary about it, even if Apple tries really hard to BS the customers into thinking otherwise because people will catch on to the history of that tech. I'm not misguided but rather I already know what's out there. I do graphic design/illustration work for a living and I know my industry well enough to be aware that professional creatives are already using the VR devices. That's not being misguided. That's a FACT. 

What exactly Apple excel at is to make 'something old and seemingly useles / gimmicky (see mobile phone, wireless headset, smart watch)' into 'something commercially useful and attractive (see iPhone, Airpods, Apple Watch).