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  • TrueDepth Camera with Face ID could limit Apple's iPhone X production to 30M units this ye...

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    tmay said:
    lkrupp said:
    Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has slashed his forecast for iPhone X shipments this fall to between 30 million and 35 million units, though he also told investors that any negative reaction to production issues could make for an attractive opportunity to buy more shares of AAPL.
    Translation: Manipulate AAPL by FUD’ing the price down to buy more at a discount. And voilà, AAPL is down $1.03. That’s how it works people. The stock market runs on two things and two things only, greed and fear. Nothing else matters.
    Remember when selling 30 million iPhones a quarter was a large number?
    Now 30 mil quarter means it's doomed.
    I remember when Steve Ballmer chuckled at Apple charging $600 for the newly launched iPhone at a time when there was nothing like it. He was pretty sure Windows Mobile would retain top spot in Microsoft's fight against Blackberry.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple reportedly 'looking into' pair of iPhone 8 Plus with split screen from swollen batte...

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    jurassic said:
    macxpress said:
    BatteryGate!!!!

    Uhhh... No "WhateverGate" is needed with MUCH LESS than 1 in 1,000,000 occurrences (only 2 out of the tens of millions of new iPhones sold so far). But when we get to thousands of occurrences, and instead of just swollen batteries, have the defective batteries exploding and catching fire, sending people to the hospital and burning down cars and houses.... As happened with Samsung's Note 7... THEN you can go ahead and start thinking up some silly "Gate" names.

    Until then, you are just making a fool of yourself.

    For Microsoft, the "gate" threshold is 1 "red ring of death" failure for every 4 Xbox 360s sold.

    For Apple, the "gate" threshold is officially whatever YouTube channels and tech websites need to generate click traffic.
    caliwatto_cobra

  • Apple looking to develop custom ARM chips for future Macs, cutting out Intel - report

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    The ARM chip will probably become standard issue on Macs to handle things like Face ID, long before it takes over main processing duties for macOS apps.
    williamlondon

  • Photos show nearly completed Apple retail outlet in Austin

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    This will place it further away from and make it even grander than The Microsoft Store.
    potatoleeksoup

  • All 2018 iPhones likely to adopt Face ID biometrics, TrueDepth camera if consumer response...

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    sumergo said:
    My problem with FaceID is that it further degrades our individual privacy and makes us more vulnerable to both over-officious government and predatory marketing.

    TouchID is my physical finger on this phone.  FaceID is my face on a potentially global database.  Coming from the UK, one of the most surveilled societies in the western world, I find this worrying.

    I'm not interested in being reduced to a target for near-field / face-recognition ads or constant surveilance.

    An old fart?  For sure - I actually like being an individual.
    What "potentially global database"? Facebook? Instagram? LinkedIn? Google Picassa? Because last time I checked, we were just posting our faces all over social media like we didn't have a care in the world. But uh oh! Here comes iPhone, and it firewalls off the raw face data from the IR depth sensors from any apps, but you're worried about iPhone being part of a global conspiracy. Really?
    radarthekatbrucemcStrangeDays