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  • Apple again rumored to drop 3.5mm headphone jack from 'iPhone 7' for Lightning, Bluetooth

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    This Apple-obsession with thinness is getting asinine
    iPhone is Apple's cash cow. If they're removing the headphone jack it's not to make the phone a few mm thinner. Plus the iPod touch is thinner than the iPhone but still uses the 3.5mm headphone jack. IF Apple is doing this they better include decent wireless headphones in the box along with an adapter. Taking away the headphone jack and then telling people they can get an adapter for $30 would be horrible for sales. The fact that Apple Pencil comes with a charging adapter even though you can charge it from any lightening port makes me hopeful.
    Prof_Peabodycornchip

  • Toyota chooses Ford over Apple, will eschew CarPlay in favor of SmartDeviceLink

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    And yet people still say Apple's car efforts shouldn't be about building their own vehicle but designing the OS for existing manufacturers. This is exactly why Apple needs to control the whole thing. Why be beholden to the whims of existing auto companies?
    magman1979nolamacguylostkiwitrustnoone00damn_its_hotmac fan

  • Apple stock closes first negative year since 2008, but Wall Street upbeat

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    davidw said:
    rogifan_old said:
    Yea and a lot of good that did. As soon as Katy Huberty and others started sounding the D&G over their supply chain "checks" in Asia whatever Tim said in August meant nothing anymore. At some point there's nothing more Tim can say if the day traders choose to believe supply chain chatter over Apple's CEO. Here's a question I have though:  if the December quarter was going to be bad and March guidance was going to be soft wouldn't Apple have filed revised guidance with the SEC by now? 

    Apple only needs to go by their own guidance numbers on how they're going to do in the quarter, not what Wall St. expects Apple should do. Thus knowing that they're going to miss Wall St. whisper numbers is not a reason to revise their guidance, so long as they are within reason of their own guidance numbers. That's why Apple guidance is always on the conservative side. Even if they don't meet or beat Wall St. numbers, they nearly always meet or beat their own guidance numbers. But that don't count on Wall St.. 

    Wall St. has gotten wise to Apple conservative guidance numbers. Back in the days of Steve jobs (after his return) Apple would conservatively guide sales of 25 million, Wall St. whisper number would be 26 Million and Apple would announce sales of 26.5 million, AAPL goes up. Well, Wall St. eventually got wise to that, so now if Apple guide sales of 25 million, Wall St whisper number would be 27 million and when Apple announces sales of 26.5 million, AAPL goes down. 

    Which is frustrating when you consider that if Amazon announced that they only lost $400 million in the last quarter, but Wall ST expected Amazon to lose $500 million, AMZN would shoot up by over 10%. 
    I thought Apple quit with the sandbagging after Steve died and their guidance became more realistic?
    jonlpalomine

  • What's next for Apple in 2016: New product rumor roundup

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    Prof_Peabody said:

    iAppleOutsider said:
    Looks like the iMac design refresh wont be coming this year. That is kind of sad. Also, there were some rumors of a 8K iMac close to six months back.
    They've been refreshed more than most of Apples other products already, so I don't know why you would expect more at this point.  

    I think the elephant in the room is the Mac Pro.  If they don't update it sometime in 2016, it will be three years since the last refresh, which was kinda like the only refresh.  Despite all that bravado when they launched it about always keeping the Mac Pro in the lineup, I wouldn't be surprised if it's just dropped completely.  
    I thought the Mac Pro was waiting on Intel and thunderbolt 3. Anyway I'm skeptical that they would redesign it in 2013 only to kill it off a couple years later. Why redesign it if they had no plans on supporting it long-term?
    tallest skilargonaut

  • What's next for Apple in 2016: New product rumor roundup

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    entropys said:
    How about they upgrade the MBA with skylake, increased resolution and a standard 8 GB of RAM in the next two weeks? I will get three.

    Actually they really do need to release something this month to help remind everyone Apple exists while CES is on.
    Sorry, MBA is not going retina, it's being phased out. Get a thinner and lighter rMBP when they drop later this year.
    tallest skil