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Apple lowers holiday quarter guidance on lower than expected iPhone sales
True but will they admit a mistake and correct or just keep chugging down the same track. Only time they admitted a mistake in pricing I can remember was the first iPhone where they dropped the price and pissed off everyone who'd bought it early.macxpress said:Certainly not the first time Apple out priced a product. It happens from time to time and it will happen again eventually. Honestly, I think this happens to every company eventually.
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Apple lowers holiday quarter guidance on lower than expected iPhone sales
Not a great fan of faceid myself and I have a X. The failure rate of the faceid vs finger id is at least 10x higher.SpamSandwich said:Oh, good lord.
Personally, I’m not that crazy about the “X” phones and may get an iPhone 8 instead. I don’t want to give up the ease of use I like about having a home button to be honest and I don’t care for Face ID.
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Apple lowers holiday quarter guidance on lower than expected iPhone sales
The very low end phone with an insultingly low amount of storage. If they started at 128 that world be more reasonable.AppleExposed said:The last analytics article proved what I was saying about old iPhones still being used.
A big chunk of iPhones being used are 6/6s versions.Jeremyl007 said:Hint Apple: Don't sell phones for $1500 or airpods for $175... there comes a breaking point when people will start saying no and move to cheap android alternatives for a quarter of the price..
The newest iPhone is $750. Get outta here with that dumb s***.
Also AirPods are some of the most successful products in history.
When iPad's top out at $1500 or more that's gonna be an issue for people who wonder why it's higher MacBook Pros.
The entry price points are not Apple's issue it's they're sky high prices for storage and no updates later that kicks the price to many times higher than the entry point. I'm using a 2012 MacBook Pro upgraded. Total cost was under $2000 over several years. To replace would cost me more than $4000 and no way to ever upgrade
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Class action suit accuses Apple of selling Macs without needed dust filters
While I oppose money grabbing lawsuits, unfortunately Apple has a long reputation of refusing to admit to issues that are fairly widespread and refuse to acknowledge them even denying any knowledge when their own support pages are full of the issue. IMO if Apple did own up to and openly investigate these issues so people didn't feel like their high priced hardware was not built or supported to match the price most would just get them fixed by Apple instead of sueing. Instead it takes lawsuits to get Apple to do what they should without them.
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New iPad Pro ad hammers home Apple's ongoing laptop replacement theme
Nice except it's Apple who's claiming the iPad Pro is a computer replacement. There's pricing it that way too. I don't think any of these threads would exist if Apple wasn't the one making this claim.dewme said:
This is exactly what I've been asking. All this talk of turning an iPad into a MacBook/Pro totally misses the point that Apple already has a robust MacBook/Pro lineup with macOS, replete with an open file system, a plethora of external storage options, trackpad, full keyboard, time tested pro apps, and optional lightweight, slim form factors. It's kind of getting old to read over and over again what is essentially "Apple, please turn the iPad into a MacBook" missive.macplusplus said:
Yes. For those who want to experience the power of full macOS in an iPad footprint there is the Retina Macbook. Still not satisfied? Then there is the new Macbook Air. If iPads were a “replacement” then none of these Macbooks would exist. Apple just offers an alternative. Alternative does not mean “necessity”.netrox said:The headline implies Apple is promoting iPad Pro as a laptop repaclemnt but nowhere did the commercial say that. It merely said that it can be your next computer. My "next computer" is my iPad Pro 11. iPad can be the next computer for many people but it won't be the primary computer for me as a software developer. I must have macOS with Intel inside. iPad Pro is DEFINTELY more powerful than most laptops but the iOS is nowhere as powerful as MacOS.
So what exactly would this new Super iPad Pro Plus X with liquid super retina file system do that you cannot currently do with a MacBook Pro?
Apple obviously has a vision of where it thinks truly personal computing is heading and the iPad and iOS are part of the expression of that vision. The fact that you can give an iPad to your 92 year old mother and it gets used on a daily basis is a hint that Apple may be on to something here. No, she's not asking for a keyboard, trackpad, or file system that can save to external SSD drive. She just wants to FaceTime with her family, play card games, and keep track of news and weather. To some people, perhaps the vast majority of consumers of technology, it is what the machine delivers that matters, not the machine itself. To these people the machine should be as invisible as possible and get the hell out of the way as they use it as a means to an end. No computer has ever come as close to fulfilling the desire to just "get the hell out of the way" better than does the iPad.
Most of the people on technology forums are infatuated with technology for technology's sake. We are part of a culture that worships computers and computing machinery just like our ancestors (and even some of us) worshipped automobiles, tractors, all manner of internal combustion engines, motorcycles, airplanes, bicycles, manual transmissions, etc. To these people the functionality and purpose of the machinery that was developed to improve the state of industrial, productivity, or human lifestyle is inextricably entangled with our fascination with the machines themselves. It matters not only to us that we are able to FaceTime with anyone, anywhere, at anytime but that we doing it on a machine that we love. The machine we love empowers us in our work so we bring our work home with us so we feel empowered at home too. Nothing as sweet as running a full XCode rebuild in my home office on my industrial strength workstation or ginning up some awesome little Excel macros from my sofa. We change our lifestyles, our homes, our discretionary spending habits, our daily routines, and our personal relationships to accommodate our love for computing machinery and the empowerment it provides us. Screw the dinnertime family conversation, I've got to check my FaceBook on my new iPhone XS, and son, please move to the side a little so I can get a better view of my awesome new 4K television with the slimmest bezels known to man.
Finally, Apple is not asking us to make a choice between the "invisible" computer and the "in your face" computer. They are happy to accommodate both cases. For the "invisible" crowd there is the iPad family and for the "in your face" crowd there is the Mac family. Why would we want to give up the choices that Apple has so thoughtfully given us?
