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Up to three Macs coming with T-series security chips, shift to Apple CPU inevitable
Keep in mind Bloomberg's Mark Gurman also said Apple Watch 2 would definately have a camera for FaceTime, and that this was a key, necessary feature for selling watches. It's not remotely news nor timely reporting that Apple is making its own silicion. Typical recycling of known facts and baseless speculation from an anynomous self-described expert sold as a Bloomberg "report."
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Apple's 8 years of iPad: a revolution in iOS computing
iPhone X is smaller than the Plus models, and its display is less tall, so it doesn't do any of the iPad-like UI conventions of the Plus. That's not an opinion, it's just factually stating things.hentaiboy said:
Ah nah.AppleInsider said:And with users increasing adopting iPhone X as a more compact phone, we may see a further expansion of users augmenting their phone experience with the larger canvas of iPad.
From CIRP's Q4 2017 report:"This follows a trend that customer reception to larger screen size continues to increase. The 6s Plus, 7 Plus and 8 Plus made up 30% of total sales with an additional 20% buying the iPhone X. This means half of iPhones sold in the quarter had screen sizes larger than 4.7-inches, the largest ever share. In terms of company financials, bigger-screened iPhones are also more expensive contributing to higher iPhone ASP and revenue.
Apple is expected to aggressively expand its larger-screen offerings with the 2018 iPhone lineup. KGI believes the company will introduce a new 6.4-inch OLED ‘iPhone X Plus’, a 6.1-inch LCD cheaper iPhone, and a revision of iPhone X".
CHRP can put X in a statistical bucket with Plus and call them "larger than 4.7" but that's irrelevant. The X is similar in size and UI to the standard 6/6s/7/8 iPhone. Whether X buyers are perhaps more likely to buy an iPad is an unknown possibility, but having Apple is putting continued efforts into offering pocketable phones SE, X and is now doing very little to take advantage of the Plus (even erasing some things in iOS 11, like the larger Plus keyboard).
Rumors a future. larger X+ don't mean anything. Whether people buy only a Plus and use it for iPad-like things, or alternatively opt for a smaller iPhone and then also buy an iPad isn't that important. But there is a clear trend that iPads are getting ever larger to do new things an iPhone (even a plus) can't. Differentiation. Samsung's huge fablet phones are just the opposite: a Surface-like refrigerator-toaster attempt to make a product that "does everything" by being not really optimized for either role.
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Apple's 8 years of iPad: a revolution in iOS computing
Refridgerator-Toaster conveys the conflict between opposing objectives. A toaster-oven is/was a popular product because it performed a range of related functions. It is effectively just a small oven that can also toast.thedba said:For me the iPad has evolved to be the one indispensable computing device at home and for travel.
The Mac remains my one go to device at work.
The one place where I think iPad can improve in becoming the only computing device most people will ever need is in evolving its Files app. I do believe that Apple will allow it more freedom eventually especially on the iPad.
As far as the MS Surface is concerned I respectfully disagree with Tim Cook’s Refrigerator-Toaster remark. I think a more accurate parallel would be toaster-oven. It can definitely toast your bread and maybe even cook small dinner plates. But don’t ever expect it to cook your Thanksgiving turkey.Surface can be called a Refridgerator-Toaster because it's trying to be good at a tablet (light, thin, portability with efficient use of battery and mobile power) but also good as a notebook (a good notebook is optimized to be capable of performing desktop apps). What makes one good subtracts from the other. Pulling it apart into a tablet and keyboard gives you a clunky tablet with the connector junk and odd corners that's the wrong size and ratio to be a good tablet.
Surface is really a notebook trying to pretend to work as a tablet, which takes way from its value as a notebook. Imagine a Refridgerator heating up slots to make toast: it's that level of design compromise.
iPad Pro has superficial similarities,but it intentionally does not do notebook tasks, it just offers a keyboard similar to previous iPads. It doesn't go into a Mac-like notebook mode. It doesn't need an Intel chip or all the RAM etc. It uses a Pencil to do hands-on sketching in a very iPad way.
When mocking up an idea, do-it-all hybrid compromise seems like a good objective. But as you start to do the design work, it because obvious why everything needs to be optimized for a specific focus, rather than attempting to do everything for everyone.
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Apple's 8 years of iPad: a revolution in iOS computing
Thanks for the comment. Yes I should do thatdachar said:Hello Daniel
l really enjoy your history of tech development that appears in your articles. Have you ever thought of bring them together in a book about the history of Apple? I think it would be a fascinating to read.
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HomePod, the iPod for your home
Xaviercross1971 said:
I think you're not remembering history correctly. When the 1st iPod was released, there wasn't a dominate name in MP3 players. There was a muddle of competitors with no real leader. Everything had changed due to the Napster debacle. There was a even playing field and everyone was starting from ground zero. What people forget is that it wasn't the iPod that changed everything, it was iTunes. It gave people a way to manage their music legally, affordably, and easily. Itunes was the game changer. Napster presented the problem and iTunes was the solution. Consumers justified the purchase of the iPod because they felt they would save $ in the long run by paying for individual songs.
The narrative that Apple comes in and disrupts established markets is a false one. What they do is get into markets without a strong leader and dominate them. Blackberry was only 10yrs old when the 1st iPhone came out. Only businessmen had Blackberry phones. This was still the early days of the smartphone. There wasn't a leader in the tablet field when the iPad came out. Whenever Apple has come into a market with a strong established leader, they haven't disrupted it. See Mac's in the 90's, Ping vs Facebook, Apple TV vs Roku, or Apple Music vs Spotify as proof.Oh come on. There were several dominate names in MP3 players, all of which were selling devices faster than Amazon Alexa and Google Home, which are tiny niche products. that get tons of press for little merit.
Nobody bought into iTunes to "save money on songs." iPod sales were supported by ripped MP3s from user's own CDs. iTunes Store later let people buy songs without dealing with junk download problems. Tons of people continued to by off brand MP3 players and torrent stolen songs. Today they'd be using Android, but its the same group.Saying smartphones didn't have a strong leader in 2007 is absoluely assenine. Nokia, RIM, WiMo/HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Sony were actualy making tons of money in smartphones before iPhone hit. Smartphones had been "established" for far longer than Alexa, which has only been around less than 4 years and has only been trumped up over the last year. Samsung was leading windows tablets with Microsoft, which had been trying to sell them for ten freaking years.Macs weren't introduced in the 90s. Ping was a failed partnership with Facebook(!), Roku began selling content affiliate subscripions long after Apple TV was unveiled, and Apple Music is killing Spotify's ability to make any money at all. 100% wrong on every idea.
If you're going to come out blazing "you're not remembering history correctly" you should at least be armed with something that isn't just obvious nonsense.
