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'F1' is Apple's biggest hit with $55M+ opening weekend
Living in the U.K., I didn’t receive the ad. Still, I HATE adverts, can’t stand the things. On a premium device, such as my iPhone, I never, ever, want to see an advert. Especially from Apple itself.charles1 said:I had to laugh at the "controversy" about the Wallet Ad. Gruber said your real wallet is sacrosanct and he never sees advertising in his wallet. He obviously never looked. I examined one credit card in my wallet, it displays four corporate logos advertising their companies. Some cards are one big advertisement. Even the minimalist titanium Apple Card has three logos on it. I have a receipt in my wallet, oh no it has advertising printed on the back! [facepalm]
Windows 11 is horrible because of ads, it’s a slow slippery slope to dropping ads everywhere.
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iPhone Fold mass production now expected to start in summer 2026
$2200, for a phone? Insanity.
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Eero Pro 7 vs Eero Max 7: Amazon's Wi-Fi 7 networking, compared
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t review higher end hardware.Mike Wuerthele said:
You're probably right about the average consumer. The average AppleInsider reader is not that, and there's room for higher-end gear reviews.saarek said:I can't help but feel that it would be much better to steer the average person to cheaper last gen system at a now discounted price.I suspect that, for most people, the majority of their devices within their home will not even be Wi-Fi 6 at this point, let alone Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7. Even if they do have a device that supports Wi-Fi 7, it would be a very niche case that would actually require that kind of speed.Otherwise, we wouldn't bother with Mac Studio or Mac Pro reviews, since they are so incredibly niche.WiFi-7 is certainly the new standard and should be considered by professionals and Pro-Sumers alike.
Having said that, when I describe it as niche at the moment, even those high end Mac’s that you mentioned don’t support WiFi-7, so it really is a niche within a niche right now.
Future proofing is always a good thing and if someone were in the market, as I very recently was, I’d certainly take a look at the WiFi-7 options you outline.
Having said that, I found that I could get superior WiFi-6E equipment at a lower price because of the newer standard.Now, I appreciate that ‘better’ is subjective. For me, better entailed longer reach with stronger signal and less speed drop off from each satellite with no attempt to upsell me to expensive yearly add-ons. -
Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China
Not one for accurately reading a comment, clearly. How one would translate my comment into "Nothing in the iPhone is original or unique" is beyond me.Xed said:
You're absolutely right. Nothing in the iPhone is original or unique. In fact, every single atom existed long before Apple was a company... and even before actual apples existed. It's all just various combinations of elements. Even the software is just a variation on ones and zeros. Nothing unique there.saarek said:“designed and built in the United States.”. I think that most people, even Americans, would consider that wording to mean that a company came up with the design in the USA and that said company then manufactured said device in the USA for sale.
However, I suppose one could say that designing the phone by selecting parts already on the market and then building the phone by having the various parts put together in their final stage in the USA would, technically, qualify.
I mean, if a person ‘designed’ their own prefab house from, say, Sweden, by using a website that lets them pick and choose parts. And then that person arranged for a local builder to put it all together they could claim that they “designed my own house and had it built by a local builder.”
To be fair, a lot of the iPhone is not really custom either. From the displays to usb c ports, much of the device is available to other companies from the same manufacturers.
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Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China
Let's see.hugo62 said:
I suspect your comment “a lot of the iPhone is not really custom either. From the displays to usb c ports, much of the device is available to other companies from the same manufacturers” is factually incorrect..saarek said:“designed and built in the United States.”. I think that most people, even Americans, would consider that wording to mean that a company came up with the design in the USA and that said company then manufactured said device in the USA for sale.
However, I suppose one could say that designing the phone by selecting parts already on the market and then building the phone by having the various parts put together in their final stage in the USA would, technically, qualify.
I mean, if a person ‘designed’ their own prefab house from, say, Sweden, by using a website that lets them pick and choose parts. And then that person arranged for a local builder to put it all together they could claim that they “designed my own house and had it built by a local builder.”
To be fair, a lot of the iPhone is not really custom either. From the displays to usb c ports, much of the device is available to other companies from the same manufacturers.
Qualcomm modems, primarily Samsung displays, Broadcomm GPS chips, Sony camera sensor, USB port seems likely to be from a mixture of manufacturers, etc. Obviously things like the SOC are custom and Apple may well partner with the likes of Sony for iPhone specific image sensors. Still, I think it is fair to assume that quite a few parts are interchangeable, why reinvent the wheel for no benefit.
