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entropys said:

It isn't about cannibalisation though, a concept I always thought was stupid.  After all a sale that isn't made by the other guy is a win. What is a concept is an incoherent product strategy that relegates some company products to second class for marketing reasons.  I reckon this rumour is bullshit, as the iPhone is currently the golden egg, and Cook et al seem to be very busy making sure it is the only kind of egg Apple makes. Consequently, making some eggs solid gold and some gilt seems a bit suss.  

Look at what a (non) successful strategy has been introducing a higher priced iPad Pro and relegating the other iPads to older Processors. Result is lower sales of iPads overall. Surely Cook has learned his lesson there?

Some of what you say is sensical & true.
However, the iPad part is WAY off. In no world did iPad sales slip because of more options. Rather.... iPad sales peaked & were dropping quarter after quarter; Tim's gambit was to raise profits on iPads, DESPITE the decrease in sales. It worked!
Now- nobody is sure what's up for 2017, but here's what I'd like to see:
iPhone mini- exact size of SE, but with edge to edge screen, 4.5"-4.7", 3D Touch, latest processor, rounded 6/7 styling.
iPhone Air- exact size of 4.7" iPhone, but with edge to edge screen, 5"-5.2", latest processor- MAD thin!
iPhone Pro- exact size of 5.5" iPhone, but with edge to edge screen, 5.8"-6.2", latest processesor, Pencil support.
All with wireless charging.

Metriacanthosaurus said:

mobius said:

I heard there were suggestions that they should all boycott the meeting. Better to be present to try to persuade, or at least have your voice heard minus the filter of the media and the background noise. Trump may be polar opposites to Cook on many issues, but I'd hope he'd at least listen and possibly move closer to his points of view on issues like security vs privacy. 

Can you give me one example of an issue where Cook and Trump are polar opposites?

Privacy.

What rock were you under when Trump was grandstanding & stating that he'd "force" Apple to write the backdoor & urging his devotees to boycott them as a company??

waverboy said:

The TV app won't work with the two best streaming services, so it's a bit useless.

http://www.cultofmac.com/451509/apples-tv-app-doesnt-work-two-best-streaming-services/

Well; I think by offering them a relaxation on the 30% cut for in app renewals if they offer connection to the TV app, they've extended a MAJOR olive branch.

johnbear said:

thank goodness, hopefully by the end of the year Pangu will release the jailbreak 

Lol, I always forget there is a jailbreak community still.
It must be infinitesimal by now!

I wonder if people are still "rooting" their Android phones & flashing a bunch of retarded custom ROMs too.... I honestly thought all that boring ass scene died off about 2011ish.

rob53 said:

You need to look at Bizon for a deliverable external GPU product for the new MacBook Pro (https://bizon-tech.com). The BizonBOX 2S is available now with the BizonBOX 3 coming in early 2017. Some of the latest NVIDIA GPUs aren't supported yet but you can get the NVIDIA GTX TITAN X, 12 GB, DVI, HDMI, 3 DP (3072 CUDA cores). Of course it will set you back $1500 but as you say these are for the adventurous.

Barefeats evaluated this box way back in July 2016, http://barefeats.com/bizon_box.html. I'm sure they'll be testing the new version when it comes out. He mentioned the new version in October while evaluating the new MBP, http://barefeats.com/rmbp2016.html.

Unsure if you're a paid shill for this garbage company or just EXTREMELY gullible & eager to steer others down a ill path due to your own ignorance.
Either way.... to any that assume you aren't talking out of your ass: NO!!!!!!!!! Stay away from this scam company. The previous "product" was exposed as being a rebadged Akitio sold at 2x-4x the price. Further... they are the only company that claimed that it works in macOS, on the new MacBook Pros- for certain, even before either their product or the new MBP was released.
They are precisely double what everyone else is charging & won't ship theirs until the competition releases theirs.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out these scumbags are up to their same old tricks.
Let OP stack his money in a pile & burn it, if that makes him happy. For those that want a real product: try any of the others mentioned. I prefer Akitio... it's MUCH more "barebones" than the others, but supports full length, width, & height cards- read details on others; they are all constrained in at least one dimension.
As an aside- I emailed "hairforceone" one about this recently & got back a pat response that they don't have an eGPU announcement at this time.
So.... for the most part: BootCamp gaming is the only lock.