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rogifan_old said:

Services are going to matter more than ever now. I wish Tim would bring someone in that could really improve that part of the business. I don't think Eddy Cue is that guy.

He absolutely isn't that guy, as the launch and artist mutiny over three months royalty free of Apple Music made abundantly clear. He's a poor leader and a worse spokesman for the company. Get rid of him and get someone that that has the spirit and vision that's made Apple the sort of company we all expect it to be. 

Herbivore2 said:

Yawn. Not interested unless Apple introduces a MacBook with an A series CPU. 

I passed up the MacBook and waited for the iPad pro. I am extremely pleased with that decision. 

By the time Intel fixes the yields of their Skylake Core M processors, the release of the A10X will be imminent. 

You'll be waiting a long time then. If Apple switched to their A series, they would either have to abandon every scrap of software that came out before its release, or create a new version of Rosetta to run legacy apps in VM. Surprise surprise, the A series isn't anywhere near powerful enough for that. It can barely run complicated apps that are coded specifically for its architecture. That's why your precious IPad pro runs a gimped version of Adobe instead of the full version like the Surface Pro. And why should Apple abandon Intel when their processors are doing just fine for them, just to assuage fanatics that never got over the "betrayal" of abandoning the PowerPC for Wintel chips? Let's say they did, and went full Apple inside and out. The first few versions would be a mess performance wise, but that wouldn't matter because Apple would save a bundle fabbing their own parts versus outsourcing. It would be naive to think Apple would pass those savings onto the end users though. MBP's would continue to retail at a thousand and a half and up, third party software would be buggy or nonexistent for years. That's really something you're keeping your fingers crossed for? 

The phone is real but that name is too stupid to be legit. 

I didn't use Apple Pay very often at all until I got my Apple Watch. Today I used it for gas, at a vending machine, and once more picking up Subway on the way home. I never thought pulling out my wallet versus just clicking the contacts button on my watch twice would be such a big difference, but now I find myself wincing when I go anywhere that doesn't accept Apple Pay. Thankfully that doesn't happen often nowadays. 

As a Square user for my business, I'd drop it in a heartbeat if Apple launched a peer to peer Apple Pay solution. Tap the home button twice, hold my phone up to my clients and done? Can't beat that kind of simplicity. 

So ultimately both companies wasted millions in legal fees for a decision that means nothing realistically. 

Oh well, I guess lawyers gotta eat too.