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foregoneconclusion said:

Apple spent $80 billion on stock buybacks last year, so I'm not sure why anyone would worry about the cost/budgeting for Apple TV+ in the near future.

No one is worrying about Apple coming up with the cash to blow.

What people worry about is more nuanced than that. It is worrisome to see Apple spending a lot of money to produce junk content that no one asked for, and then turning around and pretending that it is a huge success because they're counting every hardware purchase as a $60 year of TV. Despite the fact that no one has paid for it directly, and no one has willingly subscribed to it. After the first year when none of those people continue using it, they can hide all the dropoff by only reporting "new" subs, which will be in the tens of millions thanks to new hardware sales. This pollutes the entire industry with fraud. 

What people actually want, we can't have, because Apple has failed under Eddy Cue to negotiate anything groundbreaking in the way of TV licensing:
- No subscription to iTunes Movies or TV Shows...of any kind. Fail.
- Apple TV Channels includes only small-time content providers and none of the top 3. Not even their own licensed catalog.

Because of these abject failures, Apple changed course and dumped the cash into this new plan, that no one wants, no one asked, no one will subscribe to, but will still be heralded as a major success, paving the way for more such delusions.

racerhomie3 said:

These fools think too much about 5G. I haven’t seen anyone except geeks & industry nerds get excited about it. Maybe for IOT,medicine & cars its revolutionary ,but for phones I dont think it matters.

Definitely right. No one cares about 5G. And those that do, shouldn't.

5G is another lame empty promise by the same people who brought you lame empty promises of 3G, 4G, and LTE.
- Not one of the previous generation networks reached anything near their theoretical potential.
- Not one of the previous generation networks reached respectable deployment coverage before being scrapped and abandoned in favor of the next thing.
- Not one of the previous generation networks made cellular data any less limited, or expensive.

What carriers should be doing is focusing on improving LTE coverage. LTE is more than good enough when you're in 5-bar territory. It isn't as good as Wi-Fi, and it doesn't have to be. Cellular just needs to bridge the gap between Wi-Fi Networks...no one should be relying it on. It is far too limited and expensive to be a serious primary service provider for anyone.

But instead, because of this ridiculous network turn over, cellular data really hasn't improved for anyone since 3G. It is still used in the same way, for the same things, and it is very susceptible to poor coverage.

If you haven't updated to iOS 13 already, then you might as well wait for Tuesday and just start with iOS 13.1. Your weekend will be less annoying as a result. There was just too much wrong with iOS 13.0 when they wrapped on it.

badmonk said:

Agree with most of the commenters but one thing that both companies have in common is an unbelievable capacity to evolve, change and reinvent themselves to stay beloved and relevant.

I hardly think that is the case at all. If Disney had a measurable approval rating, you'd find it in the basement today compared to 10 years ago. Most people cannot stand what that company has done to the properties they own in the last decade. I used to like Disney. I despise Disney today for what they have done.

melgross said:

MplsP said:

OMG - that camera bump is SO UGLY! I wouldn’t be caught dead with that iPad Pro! /s

Seriously, iPads, particularly the 12” pro, are not used for picture taking in the same manner as an iPhone so I’m not sure how much sense it makes to put the same camera cluster, although from a component supply perspective it may be easier/cheaper. 

Face ID would be awesome, though. 

Oh for crying out loud. I’m tired of people whining about how ugly camera bumps are. There isn’t a single device out there with an attractive camera bump, people, so get over it. This is a matter of form follows function. The bumps where the cameras are lined up is much worse, from an operational standpoint. My real concern is that the cameras aren’t in an equidistant design as they are in the phone, but this isn’t too bad. When the three cameras are lined up, the problem is that the end cameras are much further apart than either of the close pairs, leading to odd differences in 3D angulation.

It borders on unstable the way some people complain about the aesthetics of the back of the phone, which they spend precisely 0% of their time looking at. All that matters is that it takes the best pictures possible, and still fits in your pocket.