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larrystar said:

I really do like apple things. But like I said last year that Notch, camera bump, and high price I guess I’ll pass again!! 

Yes, how WILL they ever sell the darn things... oh wait...

davgreg said:

claire1 said:

Right walstreet, Amazon is worth the same as Apple.....

Amazon is worth more than Apple- not by stock price, but in reality.

Apple makes iPhones- a one trick pony. The rest of the company could not sustain the overhead without the Jesus Phone.

I feel the trolls are out a few weeks earlier than usual prior to a keynote...last week too they were littering...

Sorry, this is dumb. Live with a beta bug until the fix comes.

While a round watch face makes sense for the sweeping hands of an analog watch, a digital watch - whose purpose is to provide a wide variety of data - is most usefully delivered via a rectangle. A flatter and larger (viewable), not overall rectangle is what I'm still betting on. Of course, Apple may have "solved" the inefficiency of a round display for data, but I'm struggling to see how... I'm thinking it's a multiple allusion to Apple Park, the Steve Jobs Theater, a new iPhone camera subsystem. (and a new round Mac Mini Pro???)

rogifan_new said:

StrangeDays said:

rogifan_new said:

So is this going to be a Mac Mini Pro? And is there something that will actually make it “pro” or is it just a way for Apple to raise the price? Customers will be pissed if the only new Mac Mini is one that’s more expensive.

Here we go again. First you complain about it being too old, too low-spec’d...now with new hardware you’ll complain that it’s too expensive. Classic.

So releasing a new model with updated specs means they need to increase the price?

- if the new hardware required a redesign; meaning

• - R&D
  - engineering
  - prototyping
  - testing
  - rinse, lather and repeat

which likely includes:

• - new custom components
  - new manufacturing lines and tooling for components and casing
  - new packaging design and production
  - higher spec (costlier) base components
  

along with:

• - new product sales and marketing costs
  - training and support at all levels of retail and call centers
  - service parts inventory
  - etc.

Umm, yes, I think it would and should cost more if a company looks to recoup its initial development costs, which is in the calculus of product pricing.