macky the macky

mazda 3s said:

I can’t recall the last time that Apple actually RAISED prices, mid-cycle. That just seems rather odd for Apple. 

melgross said:
From what we read, Samsung is sucking Apple for about double the price for the OLED screens, at about $120-$130 each, where numbers normally run about $70-$80 for Galaxy S8 size parts. I don’t know who is paying for that cutout, which is responsible for a 40% reject rate, or who is eating that reject rate. But, it’s likely responsible for the higher cost of the phone, mostly. So what about next year? Will there even be three phones again? John Gruber thinks that there will be three, but I’m not so sure. It could simply be that Apple knew there wouldn’t be any way to supply 75 -100 million of these in a year, this year, but maybe next year they will. So maybe that high price is a one time thing.

cornchip said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

This seems like an overly simplistic explanation, but here goes:

If you can't think of a good use for it, then it's probably not for you/us.

I don't need this feature, and I'm willing to bet that AI readers as a whole don't. However, while I think animoji are unnecessary for me, I think it’ll be a phone selling feature, heavily pushed by Apple for the iPhone crowd, and will be sought after by the masses.

I think it's even more than that. Think about it. Apple has harnessed emojis this way before recently; yes the touch bar. Apple are world class at laying down technological tracks and getting people to slowly adopt at a natural pace. Emoji is just a super simple tool Apple can use to demo their concepts. They don't have to concept a new app or anything to get their point across. It's something that everyone is instantly familiar with. So it might be a selling point for the masses in that way. Bonus for Apple. But it's the devs apple is really after, and it's the devs that see past the emoji to what can really be done. Apple has some pretty good ideas about what the tech can do, but they're willing to bet the devs will be able to take care of some of it for them. And the people slowly adopt. 

Soli said:

Rayz2016 said:

sog35 said:

It will be easy to find this guy.

Only a few people had access to these secret files.

But how do find out which of them leaked? All they did was give out a non-secured list of URLs. Perhaps Apple needs to be a bit more stringent on how they give out the software. Maybe they should give each downloader their own URL. 

How do they know the employee was disgruntled? If the rumour about it being a disgruntled employee is true then it seems a safe bet they know who the culprit is.

SpamSandwich said:

I still can't believe they went with Face ID... Touch ID isn't called "Finger ID" fer cryin' out loud.

They could've called it Look ID, Smile ID, Me ID or something else. "Face" isn't an action.