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boltsfan17 said:

Xed said:

entropys said:

I think it means more for DVD sales than cinemas. 

Cinemas became dead to me once they started charging as much for a visit as putting my first borne through private school.

You still buy DVDs?

I still buy 4K Blu-Ray discs. Physical media is still way better in picture and audio quality compared to streaming. 

civa said:

johnbear said:

The power of their CPU, need to use two devices to make up for one intel cpu. 

With their new CPU I guess they will be selling two MacBooks wrapped together in one package, like juice at Costco:) 

The current iPad Pro cpu outperforms intel, so my question is why are you here? 

WarrenBuffduckh said:

One would assume that a mutli-billion dollar spending, overequipped test lab would extensively test its OS with the most cpu/memory intensive apps and environments before shipping it as a Pro-class product. 
Apple currently ships beta quality software -  despite or thanks to its public alpha program.

linuxplatform said:

Beats said:

Looks like a generic Apple ad.

Hoping the AirBuds look less like AirPods.

Groan. Oh for pete's sake. That 2010 "rounded corners" thing was legit but since then ...
Apple copied Samsung's phablet form factor (after mocking it).
Apple copied Samsung's OLED screens (after mocking it).
Apple copied Samsung's curved screens (after mocking them).
Apple copied Samsung's multi-tasking and went from 2 to 6 cores and increased RAM to support it (after calling it bad gimmicky design).
Apple copied Samsung's Galaxy Note Pro's huge (at the time) screen, multi-tasking and stylus/2-in-1 accessory support with the iPad Pro (after mocking all of it)
AirPods? Samsung was their first with the Gear IconX (renamed Galaxy Buds)
Apple Watch? Samsung was there first with a fitness-focused device with a "rounded square" OLED screen and LTE support (again all initially mocked, and Samsung's refreshes have all served to make their line look less like the Apple Watch).
Apple Pay? Google Wallet was on Samsung phones years prior, and Samsung Pay's solution is actually superior because thanks to MST support it can be used at the many checkouts with credit card readers but no NFC tap-and-pay
Apple Card? Before you call Samsung an Apple copycat here remember both Google and PayPal had their versions years prior
For the (soon) future: all the years of bashing TouchWiz/One UI now look ridiculous with iOS 14, doesn't it? And an in-screen fingerprint reader? That too just like wireless charging (remember AirPower, their abandoned attempt to improve on the tech used in Samsung phones, called "true wireless charging")? 

Meanwhile, lots of Apple's innovations since then have been met with a shrug by Samsung. Apple TV competitor? Nope. Homepod competitor? Nope. HomeKit competitor? Actually Samsung had their IoT platform in place years earler. So ... Force Touch? Nope. (Smart move ... Apple doesn't even talk about it much anymore.) FaceID? Nah ... they let Google humiliate themselves trying to emulate a feature that not a single Android consumer wanted anyway and tons of Apple consumers don't even use. So that leaves ... the headphone jack as Samsung's most significant imitation of Apple in years. Of course, Apple fans may feel a bit salty over Samsung's commercials mocking Apple for dropping the headphone jack for years only to (without fanfare or apology) silently adopt the feature (or lack thereof). But considering that Apple device owners have been benefiting so much from features first introduced and popularized by Samsung since 2013, they should call it even.

And even more so, they should stop accusing Samsung of copying. It isn't true. Instead, the contrary is true. Not just Apple merely getting their version of the same product to market a bit after Samsung, which was the case with the AirPods which launched a few years later with a significantly different form factor (less convincing with the Apple Watch, which launched nearly 2 years later and was very similar to the path that Samsung struck out on after it was clear that Android Wear would fail). But Apple copying a whole batch of features, form factors and design languages that they trashed previously but only for "their" products to far more closely resemble Samsung's than what Apple originally released.

The best part: Samsung is the only Android OEM that Apple does this with/to. Apple never lifted a single thing from Nexus/Pixel. Not a lick from (poor) HTC (who seems to be making phones again, though only availabile in a few countries). Not a bit from LG. Motorola? Sony? Huawei? Xiaomi? OnePlus? Nah. Even things that those companies actually do first, Apple only picks them up after they have been in a Samsung Galaxy phone for a couple of years first. Example: some Android phones have had in-screen ultrasonic fingerprint scanners as far back as 2015, but Samsung putting them in the Galaxy S/Note 10 devices last year made them good enough for pilfering. It is so blatantly obvious yet no one talks about it! Especially not Apple fans in the tech media. Oh wait, everyone in the tech media is an Apple fan! Including a bunch of writers on Android sites. (Pretty much all the alleged Pixel fans are. Not that Pixels are bad - then again considering several class action lawsuits on hardware and software issues involving Pixels maybe they actually are bad! -  but rather Nokia, OnePlus, Huawei and even Motorola are making devices that are far more compelling to people who like Android phones, which is why they all sell far more of them than Google does Pixels despite most of them spending a fraction of what Google wastes advertising Pixels. The only reason they like Pixel so much is because Google ridiculously and blatantly attempts to emulate Apple with them ... without realizing that anyone who wants an iPhone can and simply should just buy one and that people who buy any Android phone over $350 does so because they don't want an iPhone.)

So yeah. Samsung copying Apple was like the early Obama era news. Which in a few weeks - about 100 days to the election right? - may well be two whole presidents ago.