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  • New HomePod model coming as soon as late 2022, according to Ming-Chi Kuo

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    mike1 said:
    mikeinca said:
    Apple can’t figure out how to succeed? This is a totally different product than their other offerings, but they don’t realize that. 
     Make them affordable to 80% of us, instead of target the richest 5%.  

    competition is at a *much* lower price point, and the audio qualities at those low points is pretty darn good.  You also might not want or need a fancy speaker in each room.  With Amazon’s Alexa, you can have nice speakers in a room where you play music a lot, and cheap speakers in the kids room, the shed, or anywhere else where quality isn’t important.   

    Stop with the richest 5% noise. HomePod Minis are $99 for crying out loud. Apple does not need to be in the race to the bottom.


    Exactly, Apple can cover more than one market segment. The original Homepod is great in many ways (and would benefit from a major Siri makeover). It was priced well for its sound quality regardless of what some people on this board think. The Minis cover the lower end very nicely and I think they sound pretty great for their size and price. There are so many other audio areas Apple could venture into - but which one? A high quality AV sound bar with Atmos strikes me as something that might make sense. Devialet just released a high end soundbar with 17 drivers in a 5.1.2 surround-channel configuration. It costs $2400 so I figure Apple with their enormous resources could probably make something similar for substantially less. It would of course act as Homekit hub and maybe even do other things as well. I would be happy with an upgraded original Homepod with it's big, big sound.
    spock1234

  • Elon Musk temporarily halts Twitter deal over user metrics

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    iqatedo said:
    Perhaps he's looking for an 'out'.

    Announcer: He is.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple hires Ford veteran for 'Apple Car' project

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    •Marc newson designed the O21C car for Ford as a design exercise in 1999.
    •Newson and Ive, via Love From, have a deal to design cars for Ferrari as of September 2021
    •Ive and Newson are known as "car guys" - From the New Yorker: "He and Newson are car guys, and they feel disappointed with most modern cars"
    •Eddy Cue joined Ferrari's Board of Directors in November 2012.
    •Love From is alleged to continue doing design work for Apple on an unknown basis/project.
    •Apple hires a high level Ford safety exec indicating they are still serious about building a car.
    •Apple hired Ulrich Kranz, a former senior executive at BMW AG’s electric car division in 2021.
    •Apple hired etc.etc.etc.

    Seems to me the car project is still very much on and moving forward. And as far as looking at what Tesla did wrong, why bother if you are hiring exerienced designers, executives, engineers and experts from within the industry? The mistake Tesla made was not hiring anyone from the car industry until their production line was in chaos. Like Apple would ever do anything like that.




    watto_cobraJWSC

  • Apple's 3 meter Thunderbolt 4 Pro cable is now available

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    killroy said:
    jdw said:
    fastasleep said:
    dutchlord said:
    $159 for a cable right? #byebye
    Active Thunderbolt cables are expensive, this isn't news. This is also the only option available if you need this length and power/data.
    Length/power/datarate/value aside, what is a practical use-case for this TB4 cable right now?

    A raid that's not on your desktop.

    Right, like a RAID in a sound cabinet because it's too noisy to be in the room.
    watto_cobra

  • Surfshark, TurboVPN and more are secretly undermining security

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    zimmie said:
    As I keep saying, there's nothing private about most of these "VPN" services. They are proxies which use VPN technologies for the client-to-proxy leg of the connection.

    With most, you are exchanging snooping from your telco for snooping from Belarusian companies and telcos. Not exactly an upgrade in privacy.

    Would that include Proton VPN?
    watto_cobra