sacto joe

The addition of the Pencil obviously increased the price because of the required hardware change. Even so, the price is really not out of line for those that prefer this form factor.

IMHO, it’ll sell like hotcakes.

“...HomePod owners can't set Spotify as their default music service, for example.”

So? It’s Apple’s hardware, and it’s deeply integrated with Siri. Is Spotify saying they’d be willing to license Siri to have a presence on HomePod? Or do they want to use some other “always on” system that doesn’t have Apple’s security?

These dudes want something for nothing.

AppleExposed said:

Keep in mind, according to statista which is one of the more reliable data sources. AirPods are Apples 2nd most successful product in history. But you don't need numbers to know that. We see them everywhere. I was surprised to see more AirPods than first gen Apple Watches.

voenixrising said:

Is that 35M individual earpods, or pairs of earpods, Apple? 

I can see the passive Apple hate from a  mile away. AIRPODS, don't play stupid and Apple didn't report these numbers. Why would Apple report single AirPod sales?

I wouldn’t trust Statista’s data. I was concerned that they were substantially under-reporting Apple’s installed base. Turns out I was right.

Let’s be honest here: Senator Warren was wrong to lump Apple in with the rest of the gang. And she’s wrong to say or even imply that sheer size defines morality.

But she’s not wrong about tech abuse being prevalent, up to and including it’s manipulation by inimicable foreign powers.

So all this crap about how she’s a lousy choice for President is more down to folks who, for one reason or another, don’t want her to be President. Speaking objectively, compared to a piece of work like Donald Trump she’s as pure as the driven snow.

If folks are truly serious about criticising Senator Warren’s POV, then you’ll know who they are, because they’ll be the ones not attacking her personally.

’Nuff said.

knowitall said:

Seems Warren is up to a good start.

I fail to see how and why splitting up Apple and its store changes security.
At the moment ‘security’ is created by signing the submitted apps after ‘checking’ the content (running a suite of heuristic checks and sometimes looking at it by a human). Anytings that is API wise possible can be created and submitted and if those test fail or the human overlooks the child porn button, the app is signed and added to the store, the same goes for spying apps that cleverly hide behaviour at test time (say ‘defeat device’).
Inherent API and OS security stayes completely the same, the ony difference is the app governing body is not Apple any more.

What, you think API’s and OS security just sprang fully formed into existence?

Or maybe you’re saying we don’t need Apple any more going foward?

Please!