jackansi

Hopefully they mean to get to those sales figures with 'aggressive' pricing.

I doubt the 2nd gen will have cellular.  If it does I'd put money on Apple running the service.  Similar to an Amazon Kindle with 3G, except instead of the 3G included with the price, Apple charges you $3-$10 a month.  More for notifications and small stuff, less for streaming Apple music (I doubt the battery could take much streaming over 3G anyway).

At the very least a new watch coming out right about then would make it easier to substantiate the watchOS 3 being faster claim.  You know, if watchOS 3 were in a faster watch it would be faster at opening apps.  Right now it doesn't seem any faster at all on built-in apps and generally slightly slower on third party.  It is insignificant really and, seemingly, random between opening the same speed and opening slightly slower.  I did have slightly higher hopes than normal that things would be snappy.  So far it's just the same.

welshdog said:

Since corporations now regularly pen laws and regulations themselves and then hand them over to the elected officials to be made law, I wonder who is writing the autonomous car regs? As far as Apple waiting to add autonomous driving features later - seems like a good plan. If the auto-driving abilities of cars are going to be determined and managed by regulation (as it should be) then there is little reason to innovate here. Just build your car to meet or exceed the regs and move on. Not really a marketing opportunity since competitors have to reach the same goals. Focus on making the essence of the car innovative. Enhance the driving experience, performance, appearance, comfort efficiency, environmental impact etc.

Agree, though I'd still want car companies to go a step further than "just the regs" and I want to know who actually wrote regs or at least why X = Y.

BTW, the last two sentences of yours ended up in my head in a kind of uncontrollable "Jony Ive voiceover"... 

TurboPGT said:

So much good in this. 

Paid Search Results are long overdue for the App Store. This benefits every developer and every user. Developers can finally have a way to truly market worthwhile Apps, and users will always be seeing the most relevant Apps at the top of searches.

And is a very fair move, developers with App subscriptions that are not fly-by-night operations (see: after 1 year), now get 15% more of the revenue. Apple is effectively giving up half of what it earns in iOS App Store subscription revenue. 

Very smart, generous, and welcome for devs and users.

That's all fine and dandy in the idyllic land of rose-tinted glasses...

The cynical, real-world view would be that every search term/result that threatens a well established player in a certain area could be snapped up easily by them by dominating the auctions and squeezing out the little guy...  Only difference is that Apple profits more directly from the squeezing with this move to ads.

Definitely a smart move for Apple to get more revenue.  I don't see any real benefit for the consumer or developers.


App subscriptions could be very useful for devs... if they don't go overboard with it.

foggyhill said:

jackansi said:

Also makes more sense in China than the US, being as cars are a bit rarer there (per-capita).

I wouldn't say Apple got in on the ground floor, but they definitely got in to an express car on this one.

Cities are also much more congested, and parking would be expensive even if you could afford a car; basically the ideal spot for not owning your own car.

All reasons cars are rarer.  Few cars + more "need" to get around = great opportunity.

Templeton said:

The Chinese are good at taking an idea and growing the technology well beyond the original and quickly. This is a good example, 1.1 billion riders? Also no problems with employee/ independant contractor issues. No Class actions in China.

Also makes more sense in China than the US, being as cars are a bit rarer there (per-capita).

I wouldn't say Apple got in on the ground floor, but they definitely got in to an express car on this one, if the Chinese economy holds.