Eric_WVGG

Between this and the rumored 2021 iPhone Pro lacking any kind of socket, this looks like the beginning of the end for Lightning. Pity, it's the superior plug.

Besides being thinner, the point of failure on either plug is the little tab with the contacts. USB-C has that tab too, it's just on the device instead of the cable (peer inside the USB-C ports on your Macbook). When that tab breaks on a lightning cable, nabd, just fish the tab out of the iPhone with some tweezers and get a new cable. When the tab breaks on USB-C, that is a non-trivial repair, if even possible.

2016: omg Apple released a phone that fits in a pocket and can be used with one hand omg “the cheap iPhone is a surprise hit” what no we wanted a phone that fit in a normal ha— “yup just goes to show apple stuff was too expensive”

2020: OMG A MODERN PHONE THAT ISNT YUGE “once again Apple goes downmarket” no the cheap one just happens the best one “recession! People are poor” it’s outselling the new SE “this is a sign that Apple is no longer a premium brandjgughjdghhd”

lkrupp said:

I only have one question. Who is this “serial leaker” and what is his track record? I know, that’s two questions. So shoot me.

He predicted basically everyone new in iOS, MacOS (including the name Big Sur and the redesign), even the "hand washing timer" on WatchOS, all before WWDC
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/22/macos-1016-big-sur-ios-14-going-to-see-big-user-interface-changes-says-leaker

An acquisition of Quibi would be most similar to the Beats by Dre deal. That bought…

• a few powerful music industry execs, some of whom have already bailed
• a headphone market whose cultural cachet is already sunsetting
• Beats Music — everyone overlooks this, but it was the whole point. Can you even imagine Apple Services without a streaming music platform? They didn't write that, they bought it.

Quibi has literally nothing but the name Jeffrey Katzenberg. No tech, no audience, just a guy with a rolodex.

Neeva though… there are a lot of parallels between Apple's reliance on Google Search and their old reliance on Google Maps. And Google Search is getting worse all the time. I dunno if Neeva has the talent Apple needs to bring web search in-house, but…

Horace Dediu of Asymco, one of the very few tech analysts I have any respect for, published maps comparing state-reported cases of COVID-19 to these same trends. If there is any correlation… well it sure seems spotty.

http://www.asymco.com/2020/05/11/covid-19-us-dashboard-may-11-including-mobility-data/

(before anyone chimes in saying "well many nations and states are withholding data" well, yeah, but then the trend graphs would show inverse results.)