kiltedgreen

Sibeheng said:

9secondkox2 said:

yeah... I don't think apple's goalposts are what other's goals are. Apple isn't worried about getting it to be thin, etc. Apple isn't looking to solve the problems with someone else's product. 

Apple wants it to have a reason to exist beyond... "Dude, it folds."

When it makes sense for the category and when It is every bit as reliable as the current, solid bar iPhone, and when it adds something worthwhile to the phone, Apple will release such a thing.

Currently, Apple hasn't seen the need ro benefit. I have to agree.

That's not to say next year won't be a different story. Perhaps it will. But when Apple actually goes in that direction, it will be don't in such a way as to be plain common sense. it could be that Appel has an entirely different idea in mind than another flip phone with a flexible screen. 

How about "iPad Mini in your pocket" ?

Being an iPhone user for freakin' 18 years, this is the first time I ditch iPhone 15 Pro Max for Oppo Find N5. It's a game changer dude. It is as thin as the latest Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7. Pick one up and you'll feel that long lost feeling again.

But it’s not an iPad mini, it’s a small Android ‘tablet’ and there’s a reason why people buy iPads in preference to Android tablets and one of them is the software.

ITGUYINSD said:

Rogue01 said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

avon b7 said:

I'll wait to hear the full story from all sides but my first thought was 'Think Secret'. 

AppleInsider got sued a few years before ThinkSecret, and won too.

In this climate, though, it'll be interesting to see how this goes.

And ThinkSecret did not win their lawsuit and got shut down for the leaks they posted on their website.  I miss the days when people were actually surprised during a keynote when a new product was released, because none of it was leaked beforehand.

the problem is, no one is excited or surprised during the keynotes, not because of leaks, but because Apple can't churn out anything to be surprised or get excited about!  I mean, seriously, any idiot can predict a slimmer, lighter iPhone with a new chip in it and 23 minutes more battery life than last gen!  Is that exciting to you?  

It is mostly because of the leaks.

I know it’s a techie/Apple fanboy’s wet dream to have something as dramatic as an iPhone launched every year but reality doesn’t work that way. (Disclaimer: I’ve used nothing but Apple stuff since I bought the Macintosh in ‘84). There’s no company announcing radical new products each and every year. What you get are advances on existing products - faster, better screens, more memory, OS updates. That’s the way it works for any company - Meta, Samsung, Google, or whoever. Yes, there’s folding phones but whether they are gimmicks or practical devices remains to be seen. AI pin? How did that exciting new products go?

If you really, genuinely expect Apple to announce something really new and exciting every year you are plain deluded. Think back to the days of Steve Jobs. He announced the Macintosh in 1984 but what did you get after that? Updated Macs. A laserWriter. More updated Macs. Updated OS. More updated Macs. The next really new ‘exciting’ thing after that was the iPod in 2001 - that was 17 years later! (Yes, I know he wasn’t at Apple the entire time). Eight years later you got the iPhone, so for seven years all you got was faster processors, bigger disks and maybe better screens. Not exactly ‘exciting’ by your reckoning I’ll wager.

So, in the real world, genuinely new products don’t come along that often. From anyone.

I know about people’s ‘need’ to know about everything Apple is doing but wasn’t it so much better when what was announced by Steve on stage was a total surprise. Imagine if all of the MacBook Air or the iPhone had been released in detail beforehand - half the fun of the show would have been seriously diluted.

It’s like receiving a present - we get it wrapped and we don’t know what it is until we open it. And we love that.

This is the same Trump clown show that marketed the Trump T1 phone stressing that it would be "Made in the USA" only to subsequently remove such lies from its website and change it to "American proud design". Making it in China would at least be consistent as that's where most of Trump's merch is made. Funny that.

Talk about do as I say and not as I do ...

Steve Jobs was pretty much unique in business. Any business, anywhere. People like him are as rare as hen’s teeth so there could never be a replacement who was anything like him and so all those who want a clone of Steve at the helm of Apple are doomed to permanent disappointment.