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  • iPhone 14 will get complete redesign and lose mini model in 2022

    darkvaderdarkvader
    There is zero chance it's going to get a 'complete redesign' next year, or in the foreseeable future.

    The reality is that phones are a mature product now.  Next year's iPhone will look a lot like last year's iPhone.  There has been zero substantive change since 2017, and that wasn't a change for the better with the loss of the home button.  The cameras get slightly better, the chips get slightly faster, and the edges change shape slightly.  And the edges are cyclical, the first iPhone had rounded edges, the 4 got more squared off edges, the 6 went back to rounded, and now we're back to more squared off.

    But ultimately phones haven't changed since 2007.  There's a touchscreen, some cameras, a battery, a logic board, and some buttons.  Sure, the UI gets slightly uglier every year, and has since it got massively uglier in 2013 with the UI abomination that was iOS 7.

    Oh, and at some point Apple will introduce a copy of Samsung's folding phone.  It will have the same problems, it'll be more fragile, because folding screens have to be.  And even though it'll just be a copy of something stupid Samsung did years before, people here will call Apple 'innovative' for doing it.
    spice-boy

  • Rick Astley blown away by use of his song in 'Ted Lasso'

    darkvaderdarkvader
    So this whole show is really just a long setup for a rickroll.  Ugh.
    mattinoz

  • Apple shareholders press company to reverse 'anti-competitive repair policies'

    darkvaderdarkvader
    It's good to see shareholders pushing right to repair, but it's almost certainly going to take new laws to force abusive companies like Apple to change. 


    williamlondonelijahglam92103muthuk_vanalingam

  • #AppleToo engineer target of online abuse, failed by HR

    darkvaderdarkvader
    And right on time the victim blaming shows up here.  Sickening.
    beowulfschmidtrobabajony0

  • Tim Cook wants to debut one more big product category before he retires

    darkvaderdarkvader
    takeo said:
    The lack of a $300 Mac Nano which would have moved Apple's 8% computer market share to 25% is the clearest evidence of this fact.
    “We don’t know how to make a $500 computer that’s not a piece of junk. Our DNA will not let us do that.”
    – Steve Jobs

    And Jobs was a known liar.  That statement was made about the time Apple released the first Mac mini at $499.

    Apple didn't know how to make a $500 computer in 1984.  These days they know exactly how to make them, they do make them, and then they sell them for closer to $2000 because they can get away with it.

    OctoMonkeyelijahg