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hmurchison said:

avon b7 said:

They should have shipped a real TV years ago and that's where the camera would sit perfectly. Make it a clip on magnetic affair with its own wifi and let users stick where they want (in case they don't want it on the TV) or just remove it for complete privacy.

The nonsense about the TV business being a low margin industry has nothing to do with premium offerings that do far more than regular TVs. 

When it's all said and done I think people will feel like Gene Munster was right on this one and that  Apple should have just made  2levels of TV (50,65 inch) and added the necessary Apple.    

Dan Moren last week wrote an article about the rather strange place that the Apple TV in and most of his sentiment I totally agree with. 

You clearly do not understand why Apple never sold a television. They are low margin, well below what AAPL shareholders would expect from an Apple hardware product.

Worse, they aren't replaced by owners on a regular basis. It is far easier replacing some sort of streaming stick (~$30) or even fancy set-top box ($200) than replacing a $1500-2000 TV. Apple themselves have very limited influence on the technological improvements of the primary hardware component: the display.

Hell, and now that AppleTV+ service is available as an app on third-party hardware, the argument for owning an Apple-branded television set is even hard to push to consumers. 

Televisions are commodity electronics.

Apple has rightfully focused their attention on improving the service: "content is king". This is where they can differentiate themselves in 2024. They cannot source some sort of television display panel that will blow away what they can get from Samsung, LG, Sony, etc.

More importantly, the future will be decided by people who aren't even really involved this this conversation. Teenagers used to watching video content represent a generation of people who don't expect to pay thousands and thousands of dollars on a television screen for entertainment.

Dear Elon,

The problem with your service isn't the availability of whiz-bang security trickery. It's the content.

And the bad guys will crack any security ploy you come up with, maybe not tomorrow but soon enough where many simply won't be impressed by passkeys or anything else.

Passkeys just are a "better" way of securely accessing some ghetto online neighborhood but it doesn't actually clean up the garbage or its dumpers.

Passkeys won't improve ad sales on Twitter (a.k.a. "X").

Hell, you might get more user traffic switching the service name back to Twitter.

Anyhow, thanks for the laughs.

Teenagers are a notoriously fickle audience so this longterm and ongoing admiration for the Apple brand over years is actually very enviable. It's not like Apple didn't have competition before (like RIM BlackBerrys, T-Mobile Sidekicks, Windows Mobile) or now (Android).

In the end, it comes down to the overall user experience -- particularly software -- not some weird mobile device hardware specs circle jerk.

slow n easy said:

Elon Musk announced that Tesla will be investing $10 Billion in FSD technology for this year alone. They are dead serious that this will be a solvable problem.

It is reasonable to assume that FSD is a solvable problem. The big question is when.

We have already seen many companies come and go because they couldn't get FSD to work before they ran out of VC cash. But the castoff survivors of those shuttered companies will go to work elsewhere, many on the same problem. Eventually it will happen.

Rome wasn't built in a day and today's smartwatches are a far cry from what the cellular telephone was in the late Eighties, in many instances far more interesting scenarios than Dick Tracy's watch television or the Star Trek communicator (which didn't even have video).

Samchase said:

How do they know if it's real? The "s" looks different than many of his signatures online.

Unfortunately neither the AppleInsider article nor the auction webpage answer the most basic questions that any serious buyer would start with.

• Who is the seller?
• How did they come into possession of this item?
• Why are they it selling now?

There are probably verbally given answers but any serious auction buyer would ask these. Any hesitation by the auction house to these questions would be an immediate red flag about the authenticity of the item(s).

These aren't questions specific to these Apple-related items or even just tech memorabilia in general. They apply to any item that is trying to be resold whether it's an auction house, Craigslist, newspaper advertisement, antique store, flea market, whatever.