deminsd

radarthekat said:

ericthehalfbee said:

Margins in the 40% range are very good for a company selling physical goods.

But they pale in comparison to the margins over at Google (average of 61% for the past 10 years) or Microsoft (average approaching 70% and a record high of 80%). Yet I don't see anyone giving them a hard time about how much money/profit they're raking in.

You beat me to it. I was going to comment that those who vilify Apple on it’s enormous pile of profits have the choice of buying a Windows setup on Microsoft hardware where the combined total of their purchases hands 70% margins to Microsoft.  Where’s the beef?  

So because someone else does it also makes it OK?  $200 extra for 8 --> 16GB RAM in a MacBook?  $850 price premium for 1TB worth of SSD storage in the new iPad Pro?  $200 more for 128GB extra SSD in the new Macbook Air?  There isn't any other way to describe it BUT robbery.

Also, not sure what you mean "combined total" but you don't buy Windows and then buy a piece of Microsoft hardware.  Like macOS, Windows is included in the price.

netmage said:

On modern iPhones it is hold wake and volume in (squeeze both sides) for a few seconds.
Five presses of wake button is emergency call.

While five presses does bring up the SOS screen, if you cancel it, you'll see that a passcode is now required. It doesn't actually do the SOS function. You can also power off on that screen, which could be helpful, too.

dipdog3 said:

He didn’t take his iPhone inside with him, he left it outside with his fiancée. 

Since cellular Watches aren’t available in Turkey, he must have been connected to WiFi to get the data out, unless they recovered the watch (which would contradict the “his is missing” story)

Khashoggi was a resident of the US, hence entirely possible he had purchased his iPhone and Apple Watch in the US.

ericthehalfbee said:

deminsd said:

I guess for those who are doing 3D modeling or cancer research or nuclear physics on their phone will be thrilled that the iPhone X Max is much faster than the Note 9.

For everyone else, both phones are realistically very fast and no one is going to complain about speed on either one.

Just one of many people whining about Apple processors being faster and trying to claim it doesn't matter.

I don't do cancer research or nuclear physics on my iOS devices. But I do things like photo/video editing. And the iPhone will destroy any Android device on the planet doing those tasks or any others that require a fast processor.

With iOS I have a choice. With Android you don't.

You have a choice of WHAT with iOS?  

If you're part of the handful of people that rely on their phone to do heavy photo/video editing, then by all means, get an iPhone X Max.  If you're the rest of the world, then get whatever you want because you'll probably not notice a difference when checking email, doing Facebook, or streaming a movie.

StrangeDays said:

deminsd said:

I guess for those who are doing 3D modeling or cancer research or nuclear physics on their phone will be thrilled that the iPhone X Max is much faster than the Note 9.

For everyone else, both phones are realistically very fast and no one is going to complain about speed on either one.

Nonsense. If you do video editing or AR rendering you can see where we hit the limits. These aren't unusual use cases.

I must have missed the part of the article where they compared the iPhone vs Note 9 actually running the apps that edit video or render AR and not synthetic benchmarks which many times the results do not translate into real-world results. 

And, you pretty much agree with what I am saying in the first place, just take out my examples and add in "video editing or AR rendering".  What would you estimate the percentage of people that actually do that with their phones?  Pretty small I would think.