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  • Editorial: When Apple is 2 years behind you, put your things in order

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    saltyzip said:
    icaras said:
    saltyzip said:
    ...this is why Apple will turn into a services company. 
    Thanks for the laugh.
    Educate yourself  http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/31/tim-cook-on-apple-earnings-call-double-services-revenue-by-2020.html

    Future is cloud services, that's where the money is, not in hardware, any Tom dick and harry can make a phone. That's why the pc market is suffering and will continue to do so as margins are minimal.
    One of Apple's futures is cloud services. How do you propose all that data gets in and out of the cloud, osmosis? So long as we are physical, carbon-based entities, we will always require some kind of physical hardware for every technology handshake.
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  • Apple's 2017 iPad lacks always-on 'Hey Siri' support, despite inclusion of M9 chip

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    For all of Android's hardware fragmentation, Apple has their own frag issues that they need to get under control. 
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  • A very false narrative: Samsung Galaxy S8 vs Apple's iPhone

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    QJ said:
    kevin kee said:
    QJ said:
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    saltyzip said:
    ronn said:
    saltyzip said:

    The problem for the iPhone is not Samsung, like appleinsider seems to think, it is Android in general.

    That's been said so many times over the years and it still isn't true. Nokia. Motorola. Huawei. LG. Samsung. Google's Nexus line, and now its Pixel line. They were all supposed to take out Apple either alone or as a group. Apple is not only still around, but thriving, and looks extremely healthy for the foreseeable future.




    IMHO buying a phone has now just come down to personal preference, there isn't much difference between any of them these days, they all do the job asked of them pretty admirably. Like cars, I pick the one I like in my price range, they all get me from a to b and back again at the end of the day. The market has matured so fast I can't justify spending 1000s on a top tiered phone anymore. If more people start thinking like me, it will hurt Apple as they will no longer be able to justify their high prices, but it will be good for consumers. Apple aren't a tag heuer brand, where you have to pay through the nose for exclusivity.
    Sorry Saltyzip, but you are an Android apologist on an Apple based site. Samsung S8 phones are relatively the same price as the iPhone so do not use price point as an excuse for your bias.
    You do realize that MANY people run Mac PC's AND run Android phones right?? Why can't you be tolerant of someone that wants to use something different than you??
    You do realise people run Mac AND run Android phones are not THAT MANY, right? And even then, it's not by choice but some silly company policy, right? Given them a choice, they would rather go for Apple ecosystem then having a headache of multiple platforms and cloud services.

    I've ran iPhones and iPads (owned 2 of each), Mac OS (ran iMacs at work for YEARS), Windows(currently run an 10 year old Dell laptop.) and Android(on my second Android phone). There is NO headache. Again I repeat there is NO HEADACHE in running more than one platform. EVERYTHING I do online is done in the cloud. EVERYTHING. I am currently typing this on a 10 year old Dell laptop. I can do EVERYTHING on this laptop that I can do on my iPad mini, or my LG G5. I use Windows, Android AND iOS. DAILY. You want to believe that this can't be done. You're wrong. Totally wrong.

    Evernote?? Works everywhere.
    Gmail?? Works everywhere.
    Google photos?? Works everywhere.
    OneNote?? Works everywhere.
    MS Office?? Works everywhere.
    Google Play Music?? Works everywhere.
    Slack?? Works everywhere.
    Chrome?? Works everywhere.
    Lastpass?? Works everywhere.
    Tripadvisor?? Facebook?? Instagram?? Twitter?? Youtube?? WhatsApp?? Apple Music?? Spotify?? Netflix?? Skype?? Yelp?? Paypal?? Kindle?? Audible?? Amazon?? eBay?? Dropbox?? Wordpress?? Adobe Photoshop, Reader, etc...?? You guessed it. They ALL work. Everywhere. It's ALMOST as if the app developers designed them this way. :wink:

    Super Mario run came out for iOS first though, didn't it?? YEAH!! :smiley: 
    No one is saying that running multiple platforms isn't possible. But it's totally true that the only ones who do are tech journalists for their job and some others that get handmedown iPhones or android phones for free. Why would I want to deal with multiple paltforms if I didn't have to? It's not just about the apps, it's the Ui. Have you ever watched people use a foreign UI for the first time? It's painful to watch and never worth it unless it's your job.
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  • Purported internal schematic of 'iPhone 8' shows 'A11' chip, removable SIM

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    sog35 said:
    Its obvious that Apple's Senior Vice President of Propaganda leaked this.

    This was in response to the crazy rumors of the fingerprint on the back of the phone. The VP of Propaganda does not want the Apple brand marred with 'copying' Android's stupid fingerprint on the back.

    Thus these strategic leaks by Apple.

    So who is the SVP of Propaganda for Apple? Its a secret and not disclosed officially. 
    I really doubt Apple has leaked any rumors yet. It's just too early. By next next week, this rumor will be forgotten on the pile of a hundred other rumors. Apple's leaks tend to pop up right before an event and are also contrary to the actual facts (i.e., Apple leaked a fake price point of $1000 just before announcing iPad for $499 - that was a strategic leak that made everyone sit up and pay attention during the event because it made Apple look like heroes for the consumer)
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  • Plastc goes the way of Coin as Apple Pay takes the lead in digital payments

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    kozchris said:
    Sent my Coin card in to get a discount on a pre-ordered Plastc card. Now I'm out money twice. I should have known better. I use Apple Pay whenever I can but there are times when you need the physical card. I was anxious for the chance to only need to carry around 1 card in my wallet and got burned. Sucks.
    And why does Samsung Pay only have 18% merchant penetration? Doesn't it double as a physical card swipe? Shouldn't it be close to 100%?
    watto_cobra