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indieshack said:

I looked again at maps recently after being taken to the wrong location by it a few years ago. I found it's turn-by-turn instructions inferior to Google's - in a complex freeway crossover its instructions weren't given enough in advance or clearly enough, I ended up ignoring it. Regardless of the fanboy support in this thread, while I'm certain its overall mapping data has improved and is improving tremendously, it still has a big black eye from Tim Cook essentially telling people four (or five or six?) years ago to ignore Maps and use Google's app. Apple doesn't do services very well.

Your last sentence is simply and clearly wrong. Apple Music, iCloud in all its forms and apps that it touches is solid, the App Store, etc. 

ericthehalfbee said:

What, no comments?

People slam Apple for having sales that are the same as last year while the rest of the industry is seeing a decline?

And look at Samsung. A 10 million decline in sales yet their stock doesn't get punished like Apple. Unbelievable.

Over on 9 to 5 Mac aka the “be negative about Apple as often as possible Apple blog”  last night they ran a series of predictably whiny stories about the news from the earnings call with some implications that the only reason Apple would stop reporting sales numbers was to hide something negative (y’know, like the “failure” of the Apple Watch). Then they ran a neutral to positive story about the Stanford Apple Watch study. All the previous, negative stories were comments galore, but the positive story there was only my comment, commenting about the lack of comments. Another negative iPhone battery life story this morning had like 20 times more comments, and counting. 

I think AppleInsider does the best job of anyone being fair about Apple. Not negative just for the sake of clicks, but giving criticism when necessary. At the same time, they don’t hesitate to praise Apple. The haters really, really hate that. As if you are somehow unable to be balanced if you’re willing to say that Apple did something right. I find AI’s approach so refreshing. 

ascii said:

The new Macbook Air is not very compelling honestly. As the Zone of Tech guy pointed out, it's only a little bit more for the 13" Macbook Pro which is better on nearly every metric.

Except weight and thinness.

Good. It's just a number to get hung up on. All that matters is revenue growth and profit. 

Yamcha67 said:

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

mvmaastricht said:

If this is legit, then there're people at Intel pissing their pants right now... 

When Apple decides they will make a processor for mac, intel and all others are doomed.

Intel is far from doomed. You have to remember Apple will only ever create chipsets for the iPads, iPhones and potentially Macs. That means Intel will continue to be the leader in the market.

Not to mention Intel will hit back and it's still the leader in performance but Apple is getting there. I just don't think it'll have an impact on PCs at all. Yes, Apple may transition over to their own chips and that would be a loss for Intel and the money they make with the partnership but Apple wouldn't begin to sell processors to the masses... They've always been closed, it would be odd to start now.

Not so sure about intel still leading performance when the constraints are so different between a tablet chip and a laptop/desktop chip. What might these chips be able to do if designed for a laptop/desktop power supply?