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If you completely disregard the costs of building the proper factory and just factor in labor costs. There is no way to build AirPods here in the USA without costing more than double what they cost now. 

foregoneconclusion said:

9secondkox2 said: Then when September hits and things have cooled a bit 

Things are definitely going to "cool off" when the obviously unconstitutional use of the IEEPA is ruled unconstitutional. 

Let’s see if the Supreme Court has a spine first. 

Was it that, or was it that the economy worldwide isn’t doing that great and the EU is picking its battles a little more wisely.  US retail numbers aren’t too good and I don’t expect the EU’s numbers to be much better. 

charlesn said:

hmlongco said:

On a serious note, if Apple makes one they need to commit to making one for more than just a year. People are on multi-year upgrade cycles, and even people who might want one might be off-cycle and unable to buy at that point in time.

Secondarily, they also need to make sure it has adequate battery life, something that's plagued mini phones for years now.

The Mini was available for two model years and Apple is famously driven by its vaunted customer data, so I'm sure its sales projections for the Mini took into account upgrade cycle timelines and that not everyone who might want one would be willing to buy it during that period. When you consider what a painful and expensive decision it had to be to cancel the Mini after just two years, you can only conclude that the phone so badly missed its sales projections, with no sign that things would improve, that Apple decided to take the hit rather than continue with it. For a new product to get axed this quickly is a VERY rare occurrence for Apple. Honestly the last one I can remember was the infamous "toilet seat" iBook which lasted only two years from July 1999 to August 2001. The original HomePod lasted three years. And although there was only one model ever released of the "trash can" Mac Pro, it remained in the lineup for six years. 

I think it’s partially Apple’s marketing departments ego. They are sooo temperamental when it comes to product lifespans.  They kept some of the beats headphones around way too long and had too many models, they kept the Apple Watch 3rd gen around way too long and were selling it a year before it became obsolete, the iMac Pros were slapped together and stores could not upgrade memory and users were advised to use independent consultants to upgrade memory because of a bad design, the trash can Mac Pros didn’t sell well because word got around how bad they were at failing because of thermal events. The iPhone 5 had a known defect in the sleep wake button, but they kept selling them, the 5c was hyped more than the mini and tanked very hard, so hard that device replacements at the Genius Bar of my local store were using what looked like retail boxes instead of the white ones they used for service. The iPhone SE was kept way too long when they probably sold less of those in 1 year than iPhone minis, they tried to keep the watch edition around, but nobody wanted to pay that much for what amounted to a trickle of gold for $17k, and lastly, the Vision Pro is great, but what will keep the developers around and content coming, when adoption is so slow and most adopters
are businesses and Apple still only demos for mainly consumer use?

Apple could have kept the mini around, just like they kept the SE around for way too long. I’ll bet most SE customers would have easily bought a 16 mini instead of a 16e. 

prof said:

You're so horribly misguided in your smear piece but one question that keeps on popping up in my head: Why the frog do you even give a shit? Cui bono? As you've said so eloquently yourself: We Europeans have not requested your opinion and are even less looking for you to be our saviour. If Apple decides that the European market is not relevant enough to comply with the DMA; fair game to not serve it or less well then. I'm thinking hard of desirable features which are missing, I can truly live without the (botched!) Apple AI and US people do envy us for the ability to have third party app stores already... If you want to moan and bitch about bonkus laws, try the UK for the back door requirements or the US for their spy laws... oh wait, supposedly doesn't bother you due to being a US citizen: frog the f off!

If you didn’t want Appleinsider’s opinion, why are you here providing yours? Especially since your reply is just vitriol and no real counterpoints. If the article is wrong, point out what is incorrect. Are there European companies that are gatekeepers? No? What about how much money you are saving with all of those 3rd party app stores?