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copeland said:

On the one hand Apple stands as the lighthouse for green energy in data center usage and on the other hand they force customers to trash their computers because they cannot be updated and thus have many more years of useful life in them (creating a horrible carbon footprint; unfortunately these effects are never calculated).

Total Bullshat. I just took my mother's Macbook from 2009, tossed in an SSD and some RAM and installed Sierra on it. Nearly 8 year old computer. 

I'm sorry, I got Apple's argument on the phone, but on a laptop where they're not constrained by the things they had to worry about on the Phone? Sorry, that's silly. What about schools where you plug in your computer to speakers to show presentations? Just having better speakers on an iMac? Audio output to recorders? TOSLink setups?

This is REALLY looking for a problem that doesn't need a new solution. I hope that the people taking the survey thoroughly knock this idea down. 

rogifan_new said:

Wireless airpods last 5 hours on charge. Wish it was longer.

I have a pair of 200$ JBL ones that are a heck-of-a-lot bigger than these boys and it's only 6 hours. So that's pretty remarkable IMHO.

Apple's hardly alone. "Apple’s decision follows on the heels of a reduction in funding for the 2016 convention from another corporate sponsor, Coca-Cola. The company shelled out $660,000 in 2012, but has only pledged $75,000 this time around (It has pledged the same amount to the Democratic convention in Philadelphia). A Coca-Cola spokesperson stressed the company’s “nonpartisan” status to The New York Times. But clearly, America’s corporate executives are nervous about the impact association with Trump might have on their brands. According to Bloomberg, Wells Fargo & Co., United Parcel Service Inc., Motorola Solutions Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Ford Motor Co., and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. have all signaled that they will not be matching the funds or product donated to the 2012 convention in Tampa, Florida. In a similar sign of the highly charged political climate this election season, BuzzFeed recently canceled a $1.3 million ad deal with the RNC over Trump’s talking points." Apple's just being sane - Being within a mile of Trump is a bad idea for a business. I know if Trump told me something was good, I'd look cockeyed at that brand too.

But I was assured this phone was uninteresting and uninspired and no one wanted it.