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Apple's over-ear headphones may be called 'AirPods Studio' & retail for $349
LOL. The Beats purchase is widely acknowledged in the music hardware/finance circle as a genius move by Tim Cook and Apple. What the general public and pundits didn't understand was that Apple didn't just want the Beats streaming service, but the Beats hardware and iconic brand. The headphone brand is one of the top brands in the world and it has helped Apple become the largest seller of wireless headphones in the entire world, bringing in billions in revenue each year. Older people don't understand the cultural hipness of Beats among younger people worldwide. Indeed, Beats headphones has the largest share of premium (defined as greater than $200) headphones in the entire world. Apple is its usual super smart self in letting Beats run and bring in billions while Apple built a fantastically successful AirPods line that it appears it is just continuing to expand.aderutter said:Personally I think Beats really suck.
I think Apple buying Beats was a really bad move.
I expect the opposite from new Apple headphones but we’ll see if they are as good as Sennheiser which is the same price bracket.
Just a few facts that explain why industry people chuckle when they hear the old Internet meme that Apple "overpaid" in buying Beats.
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Apple updating New York City map with greater detail, Look Around [u]
LOL. "Apple has reportedly only recently been undertaking its own photography, which means the company is more than a decade behind Google." The inaccuracy of this statement on an Apple related website is astounding. Apple began "photographing" years ago as it undertook to build its own base map to replace the conglomeration of vendors that Scott Forstall hastily put together with disastrous results. Apple has now finally completed the base map, work still to be done, and that's why we are seeing them roll out features like Look Around, which is the effort of YEARS of photography, and there is universal agreement that it blows Google's Street View out of the water. Indeed, Apple has completed huge phases of photography such that it is now moving on to videoing pedestrian pathways in the US.
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What to expect from Apple in October
"Then there's the business of the reverse or bilateral charging that failed to materialize in the iPhone 11 Pro or iPhone 11 Pro Max, but which is possibly present and disabled."
You've got to update your article. This was thoroughly debunked by Apple a few days ago. Rene Ritchie spoke directly with Apple, and they laughed about it. They have no idea what Ifixit is seeing in the phone, but there is no hidden charger waiting to be turned on.
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iPhone 11: How Apple makes tech of the future affordable
Ahh, the famous Apple conspiracy to sell dongles in their secret plan to become wealthy! "Adding the connector results in Apple selling more accessories." LOL. Apple's sales of adapters is a rounding error on their books. They spill more in coffee everyday at Apple Park. LOL.nubus said:iPhone 11 is far from X. OLED and 3D Touch are gone. A13 is a minor twist on A12 which itself was a 7nm shrink of the A11 Bionic in the X. Apple is doing a great job at stripping features and standing still in certain areas to let costs come down. Adding the connector results in Apple selling more accessories. That is a smart way of improving production.
But notice how this doesn't happen on the Mac. A PowerMac used to be $2000. Now Mac Pro starts at $6000. Not that you can buy one. The CPU used by Apple is a commodity and not some expensive to design PowerPC. On laptops the cost of ownership has soared. The Touch Bar and Touch ID adds cost and 1 hour of repair time. Replacing the battery is super expensive. Apple is doing a terrible job on the Mac.
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Judge rules against forcing suspects to unlock phones with Touch ID or Face ID
No need to throw out our Constitutional protections to have public safety. The 5th Amendment has a very important protection that against the government forcing you to testify against yourself. It arose out of our English common law history where people could be tortured to force them to testify. It has nothing to do with you providing fingerprints, your photograph, your DNA, etc., or the silly ruling from this judge that will be easily overturned if appealed.lkrupp said:I understand the principle of limiting the government’s ability to compel one to open their phones for inspection. I also agree with the 5th Amendment prohibition against self incrimination. But freedom is not free. Enforcing these prohibitions means we as a society have to accept the fact that crime will continue to rise and victims will continue to be robbed and murdered. I live near St. Louis which made the national news this week because 13 children have been gunned down in the streets this month alone. Protests are being organized demanding the police department DO SOMETHING. But these same protesters don’t want surveillance cameras in their neighborhood, are scared to report anything to the police. They want gun control as if that would change anything and the 2nd Amendment is blocking those efforts.
I’m sure the very people posting here about the 5th Amendment and unlocking phones are probably just fine with legislation outlawing guns in the hands of the public and want the 2nd Amendment repealed. Again, freedom is not free and we need to accept the price of that freedom.
An incident in my on town some twenty years ago still sticks in people’s craws. A woman murdered her boyfriend, cut him up into pieces and stuffed him into a garbage can. She was in an upstairs apartment. She rented a Rug Doctor from a local store in an attempt to clean up the blood. The downstairs apartment occupant noticed a red liquid running down her wall and called police. They knocked on the upstairs apartment and the woman let them in. One of the officers saw the garbage can and lifted the lid to find the dismembered body. The case was dismissed because the officer didn’t have a search warrant to open that lid and the garbage can and dismembered body were ruled inadmissible evidence. Blame the cop if you want but the woman got away scot free with murder. Tell the family of the victim it’s the price of freedom and too bad for you.
