suddenly newton

The iPhone X (and its XS follow-up) was a “super cycle” so even without price pressure from tariffs, it will be hard pressed to motivate iPhone users to upgrade so soon, especially since these phones were already hitting the $1K price point. The 2019 and 2020 iPhone have to do more than incrementally bump the specs. I’d like to see more “smarts” that really leverage the Bionic chip.

Wow, the word “poached” wasn’t used in the headline. Such restraint. 

hodar said:

What other electronics company supports their products for 8 years?

Most drop you like a bad habit, after 1 year.  Why doesn't anyone ask Microsoft about support for their line of dropped Surface and SurfaceRT tablets?

My experience with PCs back when I used them was atrocious. The hardware, OS, and device drivers were from completely different companies. I once bought a Sony VAIO laptop with all these custom buttons and camera that required custom drivers for, and neither Microsoft nor Sony cared to update drivers for these after that machine was no longer the current model. Sony did not promise that the machine would be supported by the next operating system version from Microsoft because how could they?

I bought a Samsung laser printer that only had drivers for Windows XP, and when Vista and Windows 7 came out, Samsung’s support was like: “just buy a new printer!”

Support for future operating systems is only really a guarantee when the OS and hardware are from the same company, and only if it sold better than the Microsoft Windows Phone 7.

AppleExposed said:

Notice the "Apple breaks easily" memes have been dead for a while now?

I guess a lie can only run for so long.

They’re busy defending the Samsung Fold. 

Still got mine! And it still works. Still remember the launch, the long lines to buy one. It was the first ‘modern’ iPad. I’d hook it up to a projector and run Keynote presentations.