jurassic

"... but Apple will likely transition to OLED iPhones completely within the next couple of years."

Exactly. Since it will take a few years until the new plant is completed, and up-and-running, it is a safe bat that nothing produced in this factory will be used in future iPhones. And since larger LCD panels for iPads and Macs will cost more to produce here, and are also prohibitively expensive to ship to China (where iPads and Macs are assembled), those won't be produced in the new factory either.

In other words, nothing that will be produced at this new Foxconn plant will be used for any Apple products.

The 6.1-inch LCD 2018 iPhone is unlikely to have a "notch" as shown in the rendering. It will probably have a thin bezel across the top of the display (containing the Face ID components), with the rest of the phone similar in appearance to the OLED display iPhones (with no bezel at the bottom of the display). This is because LCD panels are rigid, and can't be folded like the OLED display in the iPhone X. So the LCD display would end (rather than being folded back) with the connecter behind the top bezel.

ivanh said:

If I already have 80% of songs and albums I like in my personal collection, will I get 80% off for subscribing to Apple Misic? If not, I’ll stay with Spotify.

It doesn't work that way... And Spotify won't give you an 80% discount either. [eyes rolling]

I was a bit disappointed that the new iPad wasn’t introduced with a new lower price as was rumoured. The rumors were that the price would be dropped by $50 US, but the iPad retained the same $329 US price as the previous model.

But then I realized that the new iPad is basically the 9.7 inch iPad Pro that was introduced just 2 years ago in March 2016.

The differences are:

iPad Pro 2016
Apple A9X (2 cores @ 2.16GHz)
12MP camera
9 hours battery life
$729 (32 GB)

iPad 2018
Apple A10 (4 cores @ 2.3GHz)
8MP camera
10 hours battery life
$329 (32 GB)

So Apple is selling the iPad Pro from just 2 years ago, with much faster performance and a slightly smaller camera, for just 45% of the price!

When you look at it that way, it’s really not a bad price for what you get.

And when you consider that the educational price of $299 is an even smaller 41% of the 2016 iPad Pro price, it is even better.

If Apple can offer school boards and large schools deals on orders of 1,000+ units at a reduced price of $250, that would greatly alleviate the price hurdle that may be holding some educators back.

Cellebrite cracked an old iPhone 5c (the LAST iPhone with a 32-bit processor, and WITHOUT a Secure Enclave chip).

If a criminal has an iPhone, they have probably disabled Touch ID or Face ID, since biometrics can be easily tricked. But with an iPhone that can ONLY be unlocked with a complex alpha-numeric passcode, it is impossible for Cellebrite (or anyone else) to break into it.