Metriacanthosaurus

MacPro said:

I'm sure they will be tiny revenue earners just like all Apple's other non-iPhone divisions /s 

zoetmb said:

Metriacanthosaurus said:

Market may indeed be saturated but has anyone even seen what passes for the top of the line Samsung phone? On a rare walk through Best Buy last weekend I saw them and stopped to take a look, as I do once every couple years just to see where they're at. What a POS. It still looks like some confused relic from the palmOS era, and I can't believe they're still pretending like anyone wants a screen with curved edges. As is well known, this was a bad bet Samsung made in the run up to the iPhone 6 release, where the always-wrong rumor mill was flinging around the idea of a screen that curves at the edges...when of course it was just Apple curving the glass on the edges to make it nice to hold and swipe. But Samsung doubled-down on the rumor to try and beat Apple to the punch, and they did...with something no one ever wanted, and Apple never even considered.

I would never use a Samsung phone.  Not because it's Samsung (although I don't like the company), but because I would never use an Android phone.   But the fact is that unless you've done an extensive market survey or a sales analysis, you actually have absolutely no idea whether people perceive a phone with curved edges as a benefit.   Just like unless one has done an extensive market survey, one doesn't know whether the notch at the top of the newer iPhones bothers people or not.   While curved edges sounds like a useless feature, when I've seen other people with such a phone, it actually looks a bit compelling (to me) - not because of the curve so much, but because the image goes completely out to the edge.   

Furthermore, if you look at the video accompanying this thread, the Samsung blows away the iPhone in performance in most areas.  Now unless one plays games, they don't actually need that performance, but considering that Samsung accomplished it and Apple didn't, I believe that one has to give Samsung some credit.  It seems to me that with the prices Apple wants for its phones these days, they should be superior in absolutely every respect and they're not. 

curtis hannah said:

We know these AirPods were originally supposed to come out in 2017 when airpower came out, so I don't think anything in the release of the new AirPods necessarily means imminent or even leads to the release of airpower. If anything this past week should decrease those odds as a lot of hardware was released and Airpower wasn't part of it.