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jdw said:

geekmee said:

jgreg728 said:

And here is a major reason why this technology will not be replacing any current devices anytime soon.

Yes, it will be a utter failure…
just like Apple’s other failures.

You mean like...

• Pippin
• Hockey Puck Mouse
• Butterfly Keyboards
• Lisa 1 with Twiggy Drives (even though UI elements of the LISA OS made their way into the Mac)
• Apple III
• eWorld
• Newton & eMate (no, it did NOT evolve into the iPhone)
• Macintosh Portable (totally different from the PowerBooks which came later)
• iTunes PING
• AirPower (hyped, but never released charging pad)
• Pretty much the entire PERFORMA line
• Copland, Cyberdog, Open-Doc, QuickDrawGX, and...
• QuickTimeVR, which I always felt was outstanding tech, but where is it today?

I do not say this to suggest VisionPro will fail.  I say this to combat flippant replies.  There are people who, without using their brain at all, casually claim VisionPro will fail, and then you have the opposite extreme who mock and say it absolutely will not.

NONE OF US KNOW FOR SURE!  

That's the point.  I hope VisionPro will succeed in the market where others like Meta and Microsoft have failed.  Apple certainly has the reach and the money to do something other big companies cannot.  But in the end, consumer acceptance and sheer sales will define it as a success or failure, just like all the other items I just listed.

WE SHALL SEE.

Outside of the AirPower which wasn’t a failure because it was never released and Ping which was less of a product and more of a feature in iTunes, everything you mentioned was before the iPod was released. Most before MacOS in 2000. Sound like a great track record to me. 

elijahg said:

I have no idea where Andrew got the idea that this case is about Apple varying parts in iPhones. It's nothing to do with that at all. It's to do with them serializing identical parts. This is literally fake news. 

They are serialized because this is how Apple knows what parts are in what device. If you purchase an iPhone with a defective screen part. It becomes much easier to track and replace them. It also keeps Apple from paying to replace a bootleg part under warranty. 

proline said:

Weird that Apple feels so easily threatened these days. My local Apple Store was right above a Microsoft store for years. Back then, that just served to visually demonstrate the huge difference in consumer attention between the two. 

Not really. If they are going to go into a new country, area and mall and build it up they are the Anchor.  Why should they allow a direct competitor to try to feed off of what they have created? Opening and marketing a new store is something Apple is really good at and their competitors suck at. It’s why every Microsoft Store was usually a few doors down from a successful Apple Store in the same mall. Since Apple was a first mover at this scale they didn’t expect this. Try finding a Verizon and AT&T store in the same mall. 

BiC said:

Here is where I am bamboozled:  Why is manufacturing NOT in North America (America/Canada) - it should be law.  There goes all the talk about human rights - the hypocrisy is on another level...

Because as the article states, the majority of global production transfers to low GDP countries because their labor market supports it. You think the 8% of inflation last year was painful? The cost of goods would double if not triple of our labor market was used to build these things.  

bshank said:

It’s fake optics to make it look like the administration is addressing inflation. 

You do know that inflation has decreased 4 months in a row. Ironically the gas prices here jumped  as much as 40 cents to the exact same price the night before the election, then suddenly fell back to the falling prices. Well, all of the stations run but big oil. Walmart and their partner stations did not go up. I think the hater companies have gotten in the ears of the right people and the administration doesn’t understand the whole picture.