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maciekskontakt said:

Do not want to pay tax in some country - do not do business with revenue there. This is as simple as this.

Seems to me it is NZ wanting to revisit the treaty with Aussies that is in order. Apple can't afford to pay taxes both were legally obligated to (at 2% higher than NZ) and were people feel they are morally obligated to pay as well. 58% might be a bit much. Does Austrailia feed any of this collected tax back to New Zealand? If not why do this treaty at all? At some point it must have seemed logical.

They should have priced it as $1984.00 And maybe on the inside of the case laser etched the signatures of the Macintosh Team.

maciekskontakt said:

I do not care about resolution at this point as I am not going to use magnifier for display content.

The increase in pixel density doesn't affect feature size but sharpness of the features. A 10 point font at 72 pixels per inch is rendered the same size as a 10 point font at 300 pixels per inch. One is difficult to read for long periods of time, the other is just fine for an afternoons reading. Similarly, not everyone's rods and cones have the same density on the retina. Nor even the same color perception as they may have different variants of the rod shifting their color perception. Some women even see more shades by virtue of having multiple varieties of cones for the "same" color. So higher density is a good thing, better color pallet is a good thing. Not everyone sees the same things the same way.

Well, as Fitbit immediately dropped Pebble and Vector updates and development, they lost forever those customers. Not an auspicious start in a niche market, where Apple iPhone users see significant advantages in a unified Apple ecosystem.

sog35 said:

Gorecki said:

sog35 said:

Man if Samsung comes out with a bezeless phone next year and Apple only gives us the 7s they will get killed

Why is Apple so slow with design?  Why can't Apple lead in design anymore?

The bezeless iPhone should have been the 7.

When was the last time Apple was actually cutting edge?

iPhone and iPad were cutting edge. And the Watch to a lesser extent.

Because Apple is the only one who has to produce 1 million units A DAY! Therefore you need to have a design that some manufacturer is capable to make in that kind of volumes, quality and price per unit.

Thats ridiculous.

So that means the iPhone needs to  have the same basic design for FOUR FRIKEN YEARS IN A ROW!

The same basic design? It has been the same basic design since 2007. The innovations occur in increments some in the electronics, and some to refine the design. There is no need to continually fix something that isn't broken. And there is a HUGE amount of innovation in the most important part, the eco system the phone lives in. It is greatly under appreciated. 

T-Mobile is just recently announced that, for a fee, you can answer your phone on your phone, tablet or desktop. Apple has provided this for free in a carrier agnostic manner for years. Apple FaceTime provides a unified across devices means for voice call or video calls on data only. For years ... 

Apple innovations are more for making seamless integration of their devices, and consistency. For example I can still play the first songs I bought through iTunes and played on my 10GB iPod on my latest desktop, notebook, even a windows system, as well as my phone, tablet and apple tv. Apple even "upgraded" my music through "match" to DRM free much higher fidelity versions ... 

Apple's version of innovation makes much more sense to me, smaller stepwise design changes that are well thought out, delivery of exemplar devices in terms of fit and finish as well as materials and process, and better, smoother integration into a uniform ecosystem. This makes much more sense that making a bezel that is .5mm thinner and a phone that has a different radius corner or is flatter, curvier, or shaped in a circle. Apple spends years in human factors research for a feature and suppliers often leak the details, then others like Samsung rush an imperfect version out and the Android fanboys jump on it as the height of innovation. When often it is based on Apple patents and leaked industrial design information. The folks at Samsung also stick a finger into the wind to map their designs. Apple without a headphone jack, leaked months before the iPhone 7 release. The public was aghast (well the pundits were) and Samsung wasn't rushing to implement that feature. The iPhone 7 comes out, and it isn't a big deal, the public adapts quickly and it helps the phone be water-resistant. And incidentally saves Apple money, allows for more electronics/battery space. Samsung measures the response and guess what, no headphone jack on their next model. Samsung is a follower not a innovation leader.