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larrya said:

The MS band doesn't play music and the Apple Watch doesn't have GPS.  They both suffer the same battery life and lack of water resistance.  I guess it's all just a matter of which to adorn the inside of your junk drawer with. 

Truly dumbass remark. You obviously are in the wrong place as you appear to know nothing about Apple products. Since you have an iPhone with your Apple Watch why in the world would your watch need gps... Duh! And oh by the way, the Apple Watch is water resistant. Back to school for you....

knowitall said:

JamesBB said:

Phones, tablets, watches (or gadgets in whatever form factor) are consumables. You can argue whether phones are discretionary anymore (I certainly don't consider my phone discretionary). They are continuously replaced in fairly steady cycles although they may evolve and change form factor.

Markets will grow VERY fast as long as you have relatively unexplored markets (which we still do - think Africa, India, Asia etc).

I don't consider my iPhone a consumable. Products should last at least 10 years.
It's a huge waste to recycle products when you don't have to and companies should strive to better products that are easily upgradable and serviceable.
At least if they want to keep an environment friendly image. 

Economic thinking is per definition growth based and is one of the biggest mistakes ever; growth will always end, and that moment is 'peak'.

ROFLOL! What planet are you living on? Technology is moving much faster than ever before so saying "products should last at least 10 years"Is just plain nonsense. If that were the case we would all still be using flip phones, and 100's of millions of people around the world would have no computing device, capabilities their smartphones now provide.

canukstorm said:

wizard69 said:

I do seem to remember that the "peak oil" crowd was made up of mostly environmentalist. Actuall fringe environmentalists. It is a class of people that for whatever reason feel personally threatened by big business. I like to think of my self as environmentally minded, but I never really understood the hate directed at big oil. There are some strange personalities in the environmental movement.


 As for "peak iPhone" well that is bound to happen sometime. Every product ever conceived by man eventually finds market equilibrium. I serious doubt though that this will happen in 2016.


 On a side note I'm close to becoming a one percenter. Still rocking an iPhone 4. I'm not sure if it will make it to the next iPhone release though. IPhone 7 sounds very interesting though it is likely to be too big for my tastes.

"I do seem to remember that the "peak oil" crowd was made up of mostly environmentalist. Actuall fringe environmentalists. It is a class of people that for whatever reason feel personally threatened by big business."

It's a class of people that are anti-science / technology and anti-industrialization. I just prefer to call them hippies

Stupidity seems to have become a key trait of some people posting to AI these days. Why don't we open up a conversation about the 10's of thousands of synthetic chemicals that are now produced by our "industrialized" nation, which go unregulated, with many being highly toxic, and now showing up in the blood and tissue of nearly every American - and even in people in extremely remote parts of the world. Meanwhile lobbyists for these big companies effectively had legislation passed that prevents the EPA from even testing these chemicals unless a problem is brought to their attention first. And the chemical companies do their own testing - the fox is guarding the hen house.

It is truly amazing how thorough the dumbing down of America has become based on the beating of the Republican mantra. It's literally killing people. Why don't you go talk to the people in Flint Michigan, or those in Parkersburg West Virginia and see how they feel, literally.

And yes, we know there is no global warming, George Bush told us so, so it must be true. And we're going to bring democracy, freedom, stability, and peace to Iraq, because Dick Cheney told us so. And yes, let's let more unregulated money fly into the political system so we can continue to have the greatest "democracy" in the world, bought and paid for.

But why should we distrust big business. Oh, that's right, they also brought us the biggest financial disaster since the Great Depression. And yet despite all the illegal activity associated with this financial crisis, no one went to jail.

So if you want to bring up politics here, go take your bullshit somewhere else. Meanwhile, for your reading pleasure, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html

wizard69 said:

leavingthebigg said:

I read the Bloomberg report about an hour BEFORE reading DED's article. I am wondering in what exact realm of reality was DED in when he wrote this glowing report about TSMC when the Bloomberg report was referenced. The Bloomberg report is an extremely dire report that offers very little light. Even though TSMC had a profit of NT$72.8 billion, which beat the NT$68.5 billion projected by 26 analysts, Bloomberg made it clear the fourth-quarter net income fell 9%. Bloomberg did not give nearly an inch of good news. Unless there was another version of this story, I am surprised how DED was able to find sweet lemonade from the lemons dished out by Tim Culpin of Bloomberg! And, even though TSMC supplies chips to other companies, ONLY Apple is the cause of TSMC's weakness according to Bloomberg.

DED is a democrat, highly skilled in ignoring the facts and delivering the party line no matter how much credibility gets trashed.  I find it shocking that so many lap up his nonsense.  

I find it shocking that you even post such an idiotic comment. Your Republican bias is showing it's toxicity.

Further, do try to improve your reading comprehension skills, the Bloomberg article also stated, "Chinese government data released this week suggested the iPhone fared better than expected in the final quarter of 2015. Shipments of smartphones not using Google Inc.’s Android software, the vast majority of which would be iPhones, increased by about 33 percent from a year earlier, according to analysts’ calculations."

It is beyond me why Apple ever dropped the ability to have up to 4 people on a video call with iChat - I used it in my business all the time. FaceTime has actually been a step backwards. Get on the ball Apple and bake this feature back in to OS X and iOS!!!