Fatman

I can be critical of Apple - but this is one area where I agree. Years back, I used an aftermarket charger and started getting odd things happening to my phone - flickering screen, overheating while charging. They disappeared when I went back to Apple’s cube. There is a lot of poorly/wrongly made batteries and chargers on the market. If you want to save some money at the risk of ruining your expensive iPhone then go for it - just don’t blame Apple if you ruin your device with some Chinese made garbage. And good luck getting the Chinese company to reimburse you for damages.

We have two users at work that have the prior generation surface books - one complains about the awful performance the other about it just not working - constant problems of all types. Who wants to pay $3k for that nonsense. The company has since stopped purchasing. I have a top of the line Lenovo thinkpad work laptop that’s ‘not bad for a Windows machine’ - but comes with all the nice Windows features like flakey print drivers, a docking station that randomly doesn’t recognize the monitor and attached devices, failed update installs constantly, a horrid/unusable trackpad, and poor battery life. But I’ve learned to accept that’s what Windows is - and at my company I did not have a choice of OS. Yet we all use reliable iPhones - go figure.

Wall Street realizes the importance of Cook’s statement. CEO’s (except for Elon Musk) are very careful how they phrase things, since they could potentially be sued for an overstatement /misguidance.

So, I made an s-load of money today in my Apple stocks holdings ... I’m a large shareholder, so I love high profits... but even this bothers me. Chip prices are plummeting, yet Apple still puts 128GB in a laptop. That is pure greed. 128GB costs them about $12.

chasm said:

I sincerely hope that this technology gets refined and finds more practical uses in the coming years, but buyers should be aware that they are mostly buying some very expensive bragging rights rather than a road-tested and thoroughly-vetted bleeding-edge phablet like you would get from Apple (if Apple were to do something like this).

The foldable is an exact definition of a ‘bleeding edge’ technology. The modern day Apple is mostly a fast follower with products sometimes considered cutting edge but never bleeding edge.