robjn

This company has their second quarter earnings call tomorrow. Coincidence?

This kind of story could be an effort to motivate investors. Basically, the message 'we are going to make Apple, Google and Amazon our customers' is exactly what makes some investors see $$$$.

I suppose Google are reading this and thinking why but the data? They could give everyone a vacuum cleaning robot for next to nothing and get all the data for free.

Amazon are probably thinking they could sell you a cheap robot and not only could it gather this data but it could also buy stuff from Amazon for you.

Apple are probably thinking 'yuck, we don't need to or want to know this stuff'.

stantheman said:

EVERYONE knows that Apple is a company that will make "last-minute" changes if it seems appropriate, so everyone knows that case makers remain uncertain until late in the day.

No. All the decisions are set in stone many, many months before. The design is likely mostly finalized two years ahead of shipping.

When the rumors are thin and the media is unsure they think they need to give us an excuse for their lack of information so they say "Apple still hasn't decided" - this is nonsense!

By the way, Qualcomm outrageous cut on the retail price of the entire product is a major reason why laptops don't have a SIM card tray.

Again. Neither MacRumors or 9to5Mac appear to be running this story.

Why?
These images are old, we saw them and discussed them several weeks ago.