charlesn said:

This is like an SNL satire commercial for iPhone: "And for iPhone 17, after years of research and development, we've even moved the logo!" (Cut to lab scenes of logo being "tested" in ridiculous positions.) So far we've got a "me, too" camera bar and a possible logo move. I'm guessing the iPhone presentation will largely be devoted to all the new technologies in the iPhone Air, blah, blah, which all adds up to a thinner, more expensive phone with the camera system of the 16e. Yay? By the way, here's the headline from a enthusiast site for Samsung phones, but the same story is pretty much everywhere:

Samsung is struggling to sell the Galaxy S25 Edge

Industry sources say that Galaxy S25 Edge sales are below expectations. So far, the phone doesn't seem to have attracted a large enough crowd to satisfy the Korean tech giant. It might be dangerously close to becoming an ambitious experiment that failed to post the expected results.

I would find this really alarming if I were Apple because I think new form factors tend to be a bigger driver of sales in Android world than they do for iPhone buyers, at least judging from the number of different Android form factors that are available. Apple, on the other hand, has had three sales failures in new form factors: the Mini, the Plus and the SE. I just don't see thinner + $$$$ + low end camera system being the formula for success in its fourth try.  

 

Mike Wuerthele said:

metalcase said:

This is an APPLEINSIDER top story?  What does this have to do with Apple? Are there not already enough websites spreading political division and hate?

Short answer: We can cover anything we'd like. Ink by the barrel and so forth.

Longer answer: Apple and Trump intersect in about 10 different ways. If you can't see the connection to Apple because, charitably, his sons decided to do this and license the name, launching in SEPTEMBER, you know, iPhone release season, while their father shit-talks Apple for not manufacturing in the US, while they at the same time try to pull a fast one about US manufacturing, I don't know what to tell you.

We do not require you to read everything we write. If you don't like something, move on to the next piece, or the 10 before that, or the 50,000 before that.

If there's hate to be had here, it's the Trump sons that are doing it in this case. Pointing out the lies is hardly that. Facts don't care about your feelings or political side.

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ITGUYINSD said:

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williamlondon said:

ramanpfaff said:

A professional grifter. Robbing any fool that will listen to him. Humanity has failed. 

The key here is the “fool,” without whom the entire movement would crumble.

Last I saw, a moderator here was deleting the same kind of posts for attacking politicians. but I guess it only applies to whatever side has the favorable bias. Have some consistency. 

The "side" is the same side most of the entire world sides with.  Sorry you're not on the majority side.

Not the majority on this forum. But in the country? See the recent election. 

Trump got 49.8% of the vote. So the majority didn't It vote for him, they voted for someone else. Further, his approval rating is 46%. 

That you had no regard for the truth and just stated what you would like to be true is probably why you are such a fan. You both have that in common. 

the majority certainly did vote for him. It was a three-way race. He received more votes than any of the other two. 

If it were a two way race, then he’d have lost with under 50%. But split the voter turnout three ways, and he got the majority. Which is simple fact. 

narwhal said:

I just don’t know if the world is ready for a urine-colored phone.

charlesn said:

To a degree, Apple is damned if it does, damned if it doesn't. While I have sympathy for developers whose businesses get upended when Apple Sherlocks their app's functionality into the OS, surely no developer could be unaware--24 years after Sherlock--that this is always a risk. But the apps keep coming, so I assume that developers have made their peace with this possibility. 

Apple, unfortunately, will get criticized either way. When it Sherlocks apps into the OS, it's accused of being the 800 pound gorilla stomping on small businesses. And if Apple leaves it to consumers to either purchase or pay ongoing subscription fees (mostly the latter these days) for third party apps to provide these functionalities, then Apple's various OSes get criticized for being "behind" in features.