gregg thurman

Who cares?  The value of the brand is only important when the Company is sold. Besides this is a completely subjective calculation. 

Will be buying my second HomePod on June 18. Oh wait, I’ll be visiting my daughter out of state. Oh well I’ll buy it when I get back. 

Here we go again, only this time the victim is Japan Display. 

Anybody with the tniest bit od production management knowledge knows that Apple placed iPhone 2019 component orders sometime before January (at the latest). If this rumor we’re anywhere near true it would have come out 4-5 months ago. 

Further, an OLED display, in the tight supply environment existing today, would drive iPhone 9’s bill of goods up about $90, and seriously hamper supply for the successor to the iPhone X and the first generation of iPhone X Plus.  

As as has become the rule of the rumor mongers, they don’t know shit about Apple’s plans, but can drive readers with this crap anyway. 

The ONLY way something like this happens is Samsung handset sales are so bad that OLED production capacity are released .to Apple, and at significantly reduced prices.   Other OLED producers won’t be ready to challenge Samsung’s industry leading capacity for another year.  Without competition the incentive for Samsung to lower prices, no matter there own handset sales problems, is virtually nonexistent. 

gatorguy said:

I think they'll eventually get there. Apple is pretty proud of the feature.

In the meantime tho "Unlike home-made Animoji Karaoke videos, the Apple-produced ads are professionally animated, and include elements not easily possible for amateurs to reproduce." So this one was animated rather than using the Animoji feature apparently.

Apple has a habit of featuring capabilities that others will follow, then, when ready, dropping the bombshell of how they really see the feature used. I think Animoji is a great example of this.

ericthehalfbee said:

Sonos lays off 6% of their workforce.

HomePod apparently captured 6% of the market last quarter.

Anyone else find this funny?

Not funny (for those laid off) but telling. It would seem that the HomePod’s only true competition is Sonos and vice versa.