bulk001

Fanboi’s will go crazy! It will be so thin you won’t be able to see it from the side, it will have a 3 min battery life, will be made of a wonderful new material that they have been developing for this purpose for 32 years and Apple has been testing how people put a ring on and take it off for the past 13 years to maximize the user experience, it will come in a 6x4 box to enhance the unboxing experience. They will have no idea what they actually hope people will use the ring for but hope that early adopters will help them find that out. It will cost $4,595.00. It has the capability of running all iOS and iPad apps though Netflix and YouTube will not supported it while Disney has already prepped their entire catalogue to be viewed on the ring. Tim Cook will announce it using the word “amazing” 47 times in the unveiling. Apple stock will go up 3.7% on the day. There will be weeks of articles on AppleInsider speculating on the ring return rate. 

I am happy to see that Apple is trying to innovate in new areas. Like the Apple Watch, I don't think that anyone really has a good use case for this that will target a larger audience. When the AW was released, there was an attempt to make it a luxury item. They hired someone from a luxury store background to run the stores. People were saying Switzerland was going to lose all their watch makers!  Some people paid for a gold version that almost immediately became obsolete. I suspect the same thing here which is why I will not buy this for 3 or 4 years, if at all. I see it possibly being a great entertainment device (as long as it does not get too heavy and has the battery life for it), maybe a gaming device (Apple still has to deliver a computer that can really compete here so doubtful) or some sort of meeting and education tool. It could maybe get used in areas like medicine but will probably lack the precision needed for use in anything like surgical procedures. If you do buy it, leave it in the box for 20 years and then sell it at a massive profit to someone with more money than good sense! 

AllM said:

bulk001 said:

glennh said:

As an Apple shareholder, I would demand that any third party App Store, pay upfront their fair share to Apple for all R&D, marketing, IP, transportation, security and other associated yearly expenses and costs that Apple bears in making and maintaining its various devices and associated software products. 

The walled garden is going away. The iPhone and iPad will move more and more to the Mac model. You are going to have to start learning to deal with it and decide how you want to move forward with your investment. Apple is going to have to start learning to deal with it too. Then have become too dependent on the iPhone and a watch, self driving car, weather app, and VR are not going to move the company forward like the iPhone did. Cook has done a great job generating iterative changes to make money but under his leadership Apple has missed on search, cloud, AI etc. In comparison MS moved into other areas after they lost the phone wars and somehow managed to closed on Friday as the world’s most valuable company, doing it without a phone type device or a map app. 

Today, it’s Apple. Tomorrow, it’s America. The fewer Nordic socialist types on American soil, the better. 

P.S. MS don’t produce jack in consumer electronics. If you ain’t no boring corporate type, you’ll hardly ever buy anything from them. 

Snowflakes galore on the crazy side of life! 

glennh said:

As an Apple shareholder, I would demand that any third party App Store, pay upfront their fair share to Apple for all R&D, marketing, IP, transportation, security and other associated yearly expenses and costs that Apple bears in making and maintaining its various devices and associated software products. 

The walled garden is going away. The iPhone and iPad will move more and more to the Mac model. You are going to have to start learning to deal with it and decide how you want to move forward with your investment. Apple is going to have to start learning to deal with it too. Then have become too dependent on the iPhone and a watch, self driving car, weather app, and VR are not going to move the company forward like the iPhone did. Cook has done a great job generating iterative changes to make money but under his leadership Apple has missed on search, cloud, AI etc. In comparison MS moved into other areas after they lost the phone wars and somehow managed to closed on Friday as the world’s most valuable company, doing it without a phone type device or a map app. 

It doesn’t matter if you love Apple and hate Masimo or their business practices. It will all come down to what the law says. So far Apple has lost on every step here but they have gotten to a place where they can argue their case in a Federal court. You can play outraged armchair patent lawyer or wait for the case to be heard and judged on the merits as it relates to the law. Till then it is all empty speculation.