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One in four cellphones sold in 2020 were bought online
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Apple Car effort gains BMW electric car executive Ulrich Kranz
I knew someone would say this, but clearly you didn't read my comments carefully. iPhone literally created a new kind of phone category that didn't exist earlier. The "mobile as a platform" we see today, one that replaces computers when it comes to content consumption was created by the iPhone. So iPhone didn't enter a nascent market, it actually created one.tenthousandthings said:
I can’t speak for the OP, but it seems to me the iPhone is the prime example of that.dk49 said:
And what would be an example of Apple entering a non-nascent market too late but still making it big?Xed said:
Apple has a long history of entering established—non-nascent markets—with "experts" saying that it's too late, too radical, too expensive, etc., with a resultant owing of said market in terms of mindshare, direction, and profits.dk49 said:"It will take another 5 to 7 years to ship". I am afraid that's quite long, and if Apple finally launches the car in that time gap, it might be too late. Other car makers like Tesla would have evolved quite a lot. Even If Apple manages to release a Level 5 autonomy vehicle, it's highly likely that others like Tesla and Waymo would have done so already. And given that Tesla and other are increasingly focusing on the in-car entertainment and productivity, Apple's offering might not be as compelling as it seems right now.
Tim Cook always says, "we want to be the best, not the first", but if you enter a nascent market too late, the odds of failure increases. Homepod is the perfect example of that.
The HomePod isn't one of them at this time, but there are reasons why a Siri-controlled device that puts security first can't compete with the likes of Google and Amazon when customers have little regard about their own data privacy… and I say this as someone who has four creepy Echos in his home. Even Apple had to scale back HomeKit security to get 3rd-party vendors to adopt it.
Smartphones were not new when it launched. Windows Mobile, Palm, BlackBerry, and Symbian phones all existed, and more. iPhone was derided as being far behind the competition—why? Because it didn’t allow third-party apps. The irony in that criticism, of course, is later, when Apple did introduce the iOS App Store, it crushed that competition almost literally overnight—mobile developers flocked to it because it wasn’t an expensive, pay-to-play scheme like all the others. You basically only paid Apple if you were successful.
But the "iPhone moment" of the auto industry has already happened. Tesla did that. Electrification and autonomy changed the fundamentals of an industry that's more than a century old. iPhone did to mobile phones what Tesla did to the auto industry.
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Apple Car effort gains BMW electric car executive Ulrich Kranz
"It will take another 5 to 7 years to ship". I am afraid that's quite long, and if Apple finally launches the car in that time gap, it might be too late. Other car makers like Tesla would have evolved quite a lot. Even If Apple manages to release a Level 5 autonomy vehicle, it's highly likely that others like Tesla and Waymo would have done so already. And given that Tesla and other are increasingly focusing on the in-car entertainment and productivity, Apple's offering might not be as compelling as it seems right now.
Tim Cook always says, "we want to be the best, not the first", but if you enter a nascent market too late, the odds of failure increases. Homepod is the perfect example of that.
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No hardware debuts during WWDC 2021 keynote, says leaker
AI should do its due diligence before posting such article. Only leaks from reliable sources should be posted. Otherwise they should have included something like "questionable source" in their title like they generally do.randominternetperson said:
Don't get depressed. Some random nobody on twitter said "I feel no" and later said he was "not reliable at all."dk49 said:This is so depressing. I am eagerly waiting for the new Macbook pros.
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No hardware debuts during WWDC 2021 keynote, says leaker
I think it won't make sense for them to announce a new processor without any supporting hardware (macs). But let's see..Marvin said:
It's been a while since the last 16" MBP update, over 1.5 years.dk49 said:This is so depressing. I am eagerly waiting for the new Macbook pros.
What they did last year was describe the M1 chip at WWDC and shipped the Air in November. They could do the same thing, describing the higher power chips at WWDC and ship the machines later. It would be disappointing to have to wait until October/November but maybe it works better that way for their supply chain.
They will be using TSMC's 5nm+ process for the hardware updates this year, including the iOS devices so it depends on how that process goes when the chips are available. Every chip architecture will have a production cycle - design, test samples, ramp up production etc. Only Apple, TSMC and other suppliers will know the timeline they have planned.
It would be great to see a Macbook Pro launch but I'd be happy to hear about M1X and know what's coming and what its capabilities are.
