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  • Editorial: How long before we get a $100 'Everything Apple' subscription including an iPho...

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    Metriacanthosaurus said:
    Apple Music - $9.99
    iCloud 2 TB - $9.99

    What is the other $80 for?

    iPhone is an installment purchase, it is not a rental. If you continuously and religiously upgrade on an exact schedule every 12 months, it might mirror one, but it is not. It can't be included in any sort of ongoing Apple subscription.
    As pointed out, Apple is already doing this.  I think this could be the linchpin to launch a monthly bundle with Apple.  Like leasing a vehicle, you never worry about repairs, etc., and if included in a bundle with increased storage, music, TV, news +, and Arcade, for $89 a month, Apple would get tens of millions of subscribers who want the best in a set and forget package. 
    watto_cobra

  • Editorial: Apple just told you that they aren't going to make an 'iPhone SE 2' any time so...

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    Samhain said:
    Wel yes an SE2 is about size but it's also about price, while $449 may see like a great price point the iPhone SE base model was $399 while that doesn't seem a lot of difference with the economies of scale Apple have now there is no reason if they wanted to they couldn't offer an iPhone SE2 starting at $349.

    The reality is Apple needs to look at the fact that it is losing market share, not because it's iPhones are no good but other than buying Old technology (iPhone 8) Apple has no current technology level product at a reason price point.

    In the developed world we may not feel this is important but the less well off people in the world are voting with their feet, if Apple fails to offer this massive segment of the market a viably priced product it is the Apple ecosystem that will lose out to Android hordes!
    What makes you think Apple is losing market share? They're not. Importantly, you leave out that there is a vast secondary market for iPhones and you can buy a refurbished iPhone 7 at less than $200 at many places such as Amazon, and other iPhones in Asia and elsewhere are available at $100 or less. Finally, you're confused in believing Apple is trying to compete with the Android horde. Apple isn't trying to compete to sell phones at the cheapest price. They never have, nor will they ever do so. They want to sell a quality product with a reasonable profit; that's why they consistently make close to 90% of the entire industry's profits in smart phones. It's why they don't care to compete with cheap, throwaway tablets, cheap wireless headphones, etc., etc. Market share means nothing to them. Just sit back and relax as Apple sells over 200 MILLION iPhones this year and approaches 1.5 BILLION users. #Winning
    cornchipbaconstang

  • iPhone 11 Pro & iPhone 11 Pro Max -- Hands on and first impressions

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    rinosaur said:
    That camera design is absolutely atrocious... Apple design really going downhill :neutral: 
    LOL. What do you expect when you have multiple lenses? There's only so much you can do when your design is made up of three round lenses. Takes about ten minutes to figure out the design.
    ronnStrangeDayszoetmbradarthekatcapt. obviouswatto_cobraDeelronSoundJudgmentjony0

  • Southwest Airlines integrates Apple Pay for tickets, meals and more

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    Apple_Bar said:
    BBirdy said:
    I’ve spent the summer in a small town in British Columbia, Canada. I was shocked how many businesses, large and small, and customers use phone tap payments.  Restaurants bring a phone tap device to your table that even does tip calculations. And when I use my IPhone/Apple Watch pay, no signing bills.  You can even tap your IPhone at gas pumps.  I reside in Houston, Texas—4th largest city in the USA—and do NOT have that almost total access to IPhone payment options, especially the gas station, restaurants, take-out. Even big department stores don’t do any phone pay in Houston. Canada is very tech savvy, much more than most places in the USA from what I’ve seen. I love it!
    Where you go shopping? Or get your gas from? I am from Houston and yes they do have NFC  at the pump specially new gas stations Try Exxon, Chevron, Buc-ee’s, 

    if you mean by “big department stores” Macy’s like stores yes, they take Apple Pay. JCP stopped back in April nationwide.

    but if you mean “discount stores” like Walmart, that’s not happening after failing miserably with CurrentC and now seems they still want to stick with Walmart Pay

    I get the feeling that they are tech savvy but the truth is that like Europe they have been doing contactless for years at least with cards. In the USA we are still getting these sort of hybrid cards now that have everything (mag strip, chip, contactless) delaying rolling out NFC payments.  Retail in general wont do it unless they are forced to,  remember including the chips on the cards in 2015? They just did it because of the “EMV liability shift” so they didn’t have any other choice than upgrade to EMV terminals.

    Nice for Southwest moving into that direction, we need Apple Pay everywhere. When I travel to Europe/Asia I just use Apple Pay or at some train stations that I have to use my Barclay or BoA card with pin because YES we still haven’t  move 100% to chip/pin. So funny some cashiers are like wth I haven’t seen a card requesting a signature in years and have to hunt for a pen.
    Agreed, he must not be noticing who takes Apple Pay in Houston, to Department stores, I'd add Kohls's, Target, Blooningdales, Nordstroms, etc., and he's off on Houston take out not accepting Apple Pay, as many do, e.g., McDonalds, Subway's, Chck-Fil-A, Chipotle, Starbucks, etc., etc.  

    Apple Pay is more widespread in US than you realize. At last report from Apple, it's over 70% of all merchants.  A few big companies, e.g., Kroger, Home Depot and Walmart, have resisted not because they don't have NFC capable machines, but because they are desperately trying to hold on to the data harvesting they currently get and will lose with people using Apple Pay.  The vast majority of others are simply waiting to change out their machines and upgrade their systems. The pressure is clear, though, and that's why Costco and Target, for example, huge "holdouts" added Apple Pay this year. 
    lostkiwi

  • Sleep tracking may be coming to Apple Watch soon

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    flyingdp said:
    Ok. Cool. But when do you charge your watch? I wear it all day and charge overnight.
    Easy, If you are at zero, it only takes 1.5 hours to get to 80%, since most people aren't at zero, you probably can fully charge it up while you shower and get ready in the morning.
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