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  • Sales of iPhones down year-on-year despite popularity of iPhone XR in US

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    rogifan_new said:

    gilly33 said:
    lkrupp said:
    mubaili said:
    Apple must not talk itself into believing that it cannot gain more market share. It must act aggressively, speed up the cycle, and push more variety of devices, i.e., do what they have done to the iPad line up to the iPhone line up. 
    Blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada. The Macintosh has never had more than a 10% share of the worldwide market and it has been a success for Apple all these years. Discerning customers see the value and TCO of Apple products and are very willing to pay the mythical Apple Tax. When has Apple EVER had a dominating share of ANY market? They have literally created or boosted markets out of thin air (personal computers, portable music players, smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, etc) only to see them dominated by cheap knock-offs and lookalikes. Through it all Apple has remained true to its mission statement to provide well designed, reliable, usable products that customers like to use. Again, tech blog forums like AI are filled with comments from a market segment that doesn’t value design, only cares about specs, and wants everything cheap.
    Well said lkrupp. Appreciate your insight as always. It’s the same stuff every year Android phones is outselling Apple. Apple is losing market share. Apple remains focused on the core mission. Mistakes made yes but mission focused. 
    Except the core mission now seems to be extracting more money out of existing customers since hardware growth is stagnant. Which might be one reason why Jony Ive thought now was a good time to leave. The Apple of the future seems to be how can we get someone to spend $10 a month on x service.
    This is very emotional. As a profit oriented entity Apple of course will strive to sell more to its customers. Apple makes a difference by not strangling its customer to squeeze money but by offering choices. With the price of an XS, one may get one past model iPhone and an iPad. That is choice, not squeezing money. There is no “not selling” product in Apple’s current range, all its products justified themselves with varying degrees of sales. That means primarily Apple offers the right choices.
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  • I replaced my Mac with my iPad Pro for a week -- here's how it went

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    crowley said:
    qwwera said:
    All the new text editing tools in iPad OS are welcome, but it’s still awful. I haven’t tried a mouse yet, but so glad they’re loosening up and allowing it.
    The Pencil is better than a mouse, even on the Mac.
    How have you used a Pencil on your Mac?  :/  

    https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/07/review-wacoms-intuos-pro-small-is-a-graphics-tablet-for-artists-on-the-move

    And with iOS 13 and macOS Catalina we’ll be able to use the iPad as a second display to the Mac and also customize Apple Pencil options in the Sidecar Preference pane on the Mac.
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  • Hands on: Apple's new 13-inch MacBook Pro has a lot of bang for the buck

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    With the discontinuation of the 12” Retina Macbook and F-key MBP, there is no longer any Apple laptop without the T2 chip. That means, all storage in Apple mobile devices with macOS or iOS is encrypted by default.
    Rayz2016

  • France approves digital tax measures against Apple despite US pressure

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    Stop talking in financial porno slang “double Irish” and alike. There are no loopholes or whatsoever. Apple has some difficulties in repatriating international profits, any tax over those profits belongs to US. EU  just makes an attempt to see “how much we can rob of those profits”. Applying the executive power retroactively is against universal law, French Conséil d’Etat will most probably reverse this.
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  • Belkin intros tougher Boost Charge cables in USB-C, USB-A & Lightning versions

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    Always use cables that bear the MFi logo: “Made for iPhone | iPad”. Otherwise you can charge your iPhone but cannot connect it to your Mac over USB, the trust mechanism between the two doesn’t work.

    Belkin is reliable.
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