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  • Apple's changes to macOS PDF handling stymie third-party developers, cause data loss

    andrewj5790andrewj5790
    And how long did the developers have with the betas? I had mine for 3 months. 
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  • Editorial: Apple survived 2016's onslaught of fake news and failed competitors

    andrewj5790andrewj5790
    Imaging a runner expected to not only beat everyone else in the race, but also beat their own best time, every time, while being derided as a having a boring running style and failing to invent new ways to run each time they race. Meanwhile, everyone else gets a trophy just for showing up. 

    I love this. Such an apt description of the appalling double standard to which Apple is held.
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  • Slower-than-expected iPhone 7 sales prompt Apple to cut production by 10%, report claims

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    One of the things Apple has always excelled at has been the creation of demand; sometimes false demand by constricting its own supply chain.  

    When a product becomes out-of-stock, it creates a situation where the product is "perceived" as more valuable by the consumer.  

    When people in the press can't purchase it either, then the press will write about it in a more favorable light once the product is obtained as well.  This is something carefully balanced by Apple and a part of its branding, marketing, and supply chain strategy.  

    Look at it this way-
    People know when they go to a McDonald's they can get a McDonald's signature BigMac Burger but only Apple would deny its customers the ability to tender a sale.   No one in the press writes about how tasty their last BigMac burger was because they are ready for purchase.

    It takes a stroke of genius to deny Dieter Bohn his ability to be the first in the office to buy an Apple. 
    Would you mind providing evidence of your conspiracy theory? Also, would you mind explaining why a company would not take customers' money? Your explanation doesn't hold water for many reasons. First, the most influential people in the media get review units and don't have to be denied their initial purchase. Second, the phone launches late in the quarter so they MUST sell as many phones as they can make in order to help their ER. Third, it's insanely stupid to intentionally deny your customers the ability to buy your produce since most normal people will not wait forever to get the new X, they'll just go buy the new Y.
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  • Love is blind: NPD says Android customers are so committed that exploding Note 7 did little to help.

    andrewj5790andrewj5790
    Our church isn't big enough to be more than an anecdotal example, but I know many, many people there who have been die hard android people switched to the iPhone 7. About 500 people go there and the ratio of iphones to androids was maybe 1:2 before and is now like, 1:1.
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  • Apple working with Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro battery findings, says Phil Schiller

    andrewj5790andrewj5790
    rogifan_new said:
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    Damage control!
    Damage control? Did you actually read their report? They got wildly different battery results and on the high end much higher than anyone else has gotten. How could they publish a report with such variation?
    Obviously it wasn't about concern for the consumer but concern for making a big splash headline. Clicks.
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