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Wake me up when the LS command can show hidden files and folders without crazy hacks that go away after you restart the terminal program.

Um, it's really hard, I know: Try typing "ls -a". See, done!

http://www.mactrast.com/2011/1...

Inet last I looked had a program called netinfo

macOS (OS X) hasn't used NetInfo in, well, in a VERY long time. Like TWELVE years...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Apple was the first to make it fashionable to ban init

They didn't make it "Fashionable". They fucking INVENTED it (launchd) in 2005! And then Open Sourced it. But the FOSSies couldn't just accept a gift from Apple. They just HAD to go and fuck it all up. In a LOT of ways, the abomination that is systemd is a microcosm of all that is wrong with the entire F/OSS "Community".

BTW, macOS has been using launchd essentially trouble-free intstead of that retarded init since 10.4 (Tiger). IOW, WELL over a decade.

Read it and weep:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

All MacOSX is is a dumbed down GUI on top of a Mac kernel. It is not Unix like in spirit more than SystemD is.

"Dumbed-down GUI"? YOU write it!

Not Unix? Sorry. OS X/macOS has been a CERTIFIED Unix since at least 10.5 (around 2007), and maybe even before. Wake me when Linux of ANY flavor is a Certified Unix...

https://www.infoworld.com/arti...

In Unix everything is a text file so you can use the terminal tools. Not so in MacOSX.

In macOS, most config files are a flavor of xml, which is a flavor of text.

I know some people can run mysql under MacOSX but is it easy to install?

Yep. I found and used a one-click Installer that gave me an entire LAMP (well, XAMP) stack in just a few minutes.

Ah, here's one now...

https://www.macupdate.com/app/...

Next!

Is the XCode free?

Yep. Has been since OS X 10.0.0. They no longer include it on the Install Disc (but you can get it here) :

http://www.mactrast.com/2011/1...

Apple got rid of CUPS

Bullshit. Apple purchased CUPS in 2007, and STILL kept it Open Source!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

...Samba or rather a strange proprietary fork of Samba

Again, bullshit, at least sort of. Apple got rid of SAMBA because it had become a dumpster-fire of unmitigated proportions, and, because it became GPLv3, which Apple will not abide. They wrote their own SAMBA replacement, whiich, after a couple of revs, is stable enough and full-featured enough that they actually have DEPRECATED their own AFP sharing system in favor of SMB.

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

...a strange proprietary fork of [...], Apache...

I don't know about you; but this seems to be a standard version of Apache, and it shipped with macOS Sierra, which is still the current version of the OS:

https://medium.com/@JohnFodera...

And the version is ships with it (2.4.23) is also reasonabl

The reason Apple makes significant profits (nowhere near 95%)

It's 94% of the market profits and this is not a historical anomaly.

It's about the available profit in the mobile market. And yes, you're both correct that it's not 95%, it's 93% in Feb 2015, 92% in July 2015, 91% in Feb 2016, 94% in Nov 2016.

I apologize for the rounding error.

Major League Baseball will reportedly allow coaches and team personnel to wear Apple Watches in the dugout during games— while continuing to ban other electronic devices, including cell phones— as long as the Watch is not used for communication.

http://appleinsider.com/articl... In 2016 iPads were allowed in the dugout with some restrictions:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/ct-mlb-ipads-dugout-20160330-story.html

Whoever got caught glancing at his watch should have used AirPods. Perhaps they are too expensive even for MLB personnel.

And the MacBook Pro and iMac have AMD GPUs for a long while. What is the problem?

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

I suspect Google will support h.265 in addition to their own codecs

No. They use VP9 on YouTube and have been for two years. They dropped support for 4K video in H.264 on YouTube a while back. YouTube will start encoding video with AV1 around six months after the bitstream is finalized.

H.265 is futureless for web video. Major streaming services are members of the Alliance for Open Media (Google, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon) because they want to use AV1 on their service. They recognize correctly that H.265's licensing mess makes it a poor option.

The three - soon to be four - most recent generations of iPhones have hardware support for h.265 already built-in. Apple has been using the codec for FaceTime for three years now.

I suspect Google will support h.265 in addition to their own codecs. I mean, they talked a lot about removing h.264 support, but when push came to shove they quietly shelved that idea.

Apparently many.

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

Floating, falling
Sweet intoxication
Touch me, trust me
Savor each sensation
Let the dream begin
Let your darker side give in
To the power of the music that I write
The power of the music of the night

... will use only 2.7uW of power.
http://appleinsider.com/articl...

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

Giving the history with Apple refusing the decrypt data I would go with them, NSA probably wanted to tap into the iMessaging service.

iMessage was compromised back in 2012/2013 when Apple was forced to change the PTP nature of Facetime protocol with a centralized service.

Sorry, volume shipments means more, especially when the sell-through rate is very close to the shipments. Just shipping a shit ton of product to a reseller where it sits and rots doesn't count (Apple doesn't do this, but it's a trick used in the past to elevate reported sales numbers - Windows RT surface tablets come to mind here).

My point is that there are several metrics you could use for distinguishing "largest" - market cap is one, but it's not a very good one. Market cap is a multiple of stock price, and stock price is volatile and vulnerable to hype bubbles. It also takes into account the total assets of the corporation, and all business - does the mountain of cash that Apple is sitting on overseas really add anything to how many units they ship? How about real estate? Does that matter? Because it's certainly factored into market cap.

Unit shipments, market penetration, and market share are probably better metrics to use; and as I said before, unless you count phones in with everything else, Apple doesn't come up on top - not even second.

Include iPad all you want - iPad + Mac still doesn't beat Lenovo or HP. In Q2, Apple sold 8.92 million iPads, and 4.11 million Macs. Total of 13.03 million "computers". Note that my cited sources are hardly press that are unfriendly to Apple.

Lenovo sold 12.3 million PCs in around the same time period (and that's with HP taking the #1 spot), plus another 2.1 million tablets - hey, if you include iPad in Apple's numbers, you should also include Lenovo's tablets. That's a total of 14.4 million "computers".

13.03 million < 14.4 million. And Lenovo isn't even #1 in traditional PC sales - HP is with 13.1 million PCs sold - still more than Apple's combined Macs + tablets.

Yeah, I know - Apple makes more money than the other guys. You don't think some of that comes from the iPhone, do you? Or maybe the online services - I hear that iTunes is fairly popular. Or maybe software sales?

When you compare like numbers, Apple just doesn't hold the crown. And you know what? That's perfectly fine - they aren't looking to be #1 in market share, just the same as BMW and Mercedes aren't - selling a high quality product with a healthy margin on it has been Apple's business since the late 90s, and there's nothing wrong with that.

But let's not inflate them to be what they aren't.

Apple is using the same A8 chip in Apple TV as they use in iPhones. This chip has a built-in hardware HEVC decoder (and encoder). http://appleinsider.com/articl... It's not practical from a performance perspective to decode 4K HEVC in software. It's possible with an optimized HEVC decoder to handle 1080P30 on a quad-core ARM processor, but your chip will get hot, and in a mobile device your battery will be drained quickly. Apple is EXTREMELY unlikely to ever support VP9 or AV1. HEVC makes VP9 obsolete. AV1 isn't even a final standard yet, and it's a long, long way from being practical. The IP rights have not been cleared. If you're going to talk about AV1, why not compare it to H.266? By the way, GPU acceleration implies GPU computing (OpenCL, CUDA, Metal, etc.). HEVC hardware decoders don't use the GPU. They used a fixed-function hardware (specific section of silicon on the SOC).

Remember that both VP8 and VP9 succeeded in being royalty-free video formats. YouTube uses VP9 [googleblog.com] and has done for a long time. Netflix uses VP9 [medium.com]. AV1 will also succeed in being a royalty-free format.

Wrong.. Google subsidized it. Like everything else until they get bored and move on to the next thing.

For some well-crafted definition of "neglect" that may be true, but for any reasonable definition they certainly are. The product line has had gaping holes for a decade, products are cancelled and not replaced, products go many years without update, software gets buggier and buggier. It's not different than Microsoft neglecting their Win95/98 codebase with Millennium and likely equally by design. The Mac Pro is neglect at its finest.

Actually, Apple realized that, and in a really uncharacteristic move, not only admitted they had "painted themselves into a thermal-corner" with the Mac Pro, but also revealed that they are hard at work on a totally revamped line of Desktop Macs, including a new "modular" Mac Pro, "Pro"-oriented iMacs (perhaps even ones with Xeons), and a "not-so-mini" Mac mini. (Wonder what that means!) I personally think they are shooting for a home-server with the new mini, with an integrated AppleTV, and possibly more. Time will tell... It would only cost THEM about $20 to integrate an AppleTV into a mac mini; $25 if it retains its own case that is designed to "snap on" the new mini, or operate standalone.

https://daringfireball.net/201...

Oh, and the iMac has only been a year and a half since its last update, and the MacBook Pro was only a year between the 2015 and 2016 models; so those haven't really been neglected.

But it looks like Apple is taking the online commenters to heart, and is getting off its butt with the rest of the Mac lineup.

Oh, and in the Software world, Apple just announced today Updates to Final Cut Pro X and iMovie. At least one of those Applications are "Pro"-oriented...

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

So, things are actually looking-up in the Mac-World.

Finder has always referred to executables as "applications". (Source: any screenshot of Finder going back to 0.97) This is true in both the user interface and the four-character file type code used in classic Mac OS to identify each file's content type. The file type code for executables is APPL, short for "application".

Do you also require a citation that the use of "app" as short for "application" predates July 2008 when iPhone OS 2 was released?

1. 80 Gbps of raw, multifunctional I/O bandwidth. Nearly TWICE that of any other Laptop, regardless of brand, regardless of price.

If it had a port to check my car's tire pressure that would also be a feature that no other laptop has, at any price. In other words: so what?

This falls into the category of shit I don't need and can't use with any equipment i own or am likely to own this year. The multifunctional i/o bandwidth available in other laptops is fine. Apple going to 11 on this feature is all fine and dandy but it lacks the features users actually need and want.

You, sir, are an unmitigated moron.

What you fail to see is that USB-C is truly coming, and coming fast. How long do you think people will keep their 2016 MBP. Well, contrary to the Haters' Claim that all Mac users MUST Upgrade each and every chance they get, because "Ooh, shiny!", most Mac users KEEP their Laptops for an average of five to seven years.

How many USB-A devices do you think will be on the market at that time?

2. 5k Internal Display on 15" model (I think the 13" is 4k?) I believe that is UNIQUE relative to any other Laptop, regardless of brand, regardless of price.

UNIQUE yes. UNIQUELY pointless. Its just more "Innovation" nobody cares about. Do you have 5k content? No? So who cares? At 15" will it look any better than 4k display? No? So who cares?

Ah, the old "My Use Case is EVERYONE'S Use Case" meme. Glad to see you!

This is a PRO Laptop, made for PROs. Guess what? Some of them actually DO 4k/5k video editing and other PRO-level and CPU/GPU intensive-tasks at this point. And again, since Mac users KEEP their computers (because they aren't plastic shitboxes that fall apart after a year), how much 4k and 5k video do you think will be around by THEN???

What a Slashtard.

3. UNIQUE, Custom, Apple-Designed SSD Controller with the highest Read/Write performance in the industry.

I'd far rather a COTS module I can replace in 2 years for $200 for with a 4TB one. I'm willing to give up a few % points of performance for that. My 2011 Macbook pro is still useful to me (my family at least) because I was able to upgrade the RAM and SSD. This new one? Sure its a few points faster ... but its stupidly overrpiced for the marginal improvement in speed, and you're stuck with whatever capacity you get today forever. I don't object to the existence of this tech as an option for people who want it... but does apple give you the option? Nope. If you want an MBP you have to have this overpriced tech whether you want it or not, whether you need it or not, whether you'd be happier with COTS SSD or not.

It's not "just a few points". It's nearly DOUBLE even last year's model, which was already much faster than any SSD you could put in your 2011 MBP. Do I wish it were replaceable? Yeah, sure. But I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Next!

4. Ability to natively drive up to FOUR 4k external displays, plus its internal 5k display, or up to TWO 5k external displays, plus its internal 5k display, more than any other Laptop, regardless of brand, regardless of price.

But no native ability to connect to even one HDMI projector in the customer or hotel meeting rooms without carrying a bag of accessories. Swing and a miss.

Again, you're a unmitigated MORON.

Go to Amazon. No need to carry "a bag of accessories". Just buy something like THIS, or

do you see businesses switching all their workstations to OSX or Linux? Nope.

Um, that's not entirely correct.

Remember that little corporation, IBM, you were talking about? They are busily deploying Macs (running MacOS, in case you wondered) at the rate of 1,300 new installs per week (now actually 1,900), and to the tune of 90,000 as of October, 2016, and projected to be 100,000 units by the end of last year (now actually 130,000).

And if you read the second linked-to article, you will note that it is the employees that decide whether they want a Mac, and if so, they receive a new, shrink-wrapped Mac and a URL, and with that, and only that, are able to do 100% of the setup entirely without involving IBM's IT department. This is one of the many reasons that IBM has stated that every Mac they deploy, regardless of the higher price of the Mac hardware, actually saves IBM money .

There are dozens of similar articles regarding IBM's highly successful Mac program. Just Google "IBM deploying macs" and you'll soon see what the corporate desktop is soon going to look like, at least for forward-thinking companies like IBM.

They were routinely deleting songs legally bought from competitors for two years and now they should be forgiven? Lets reward the abusers because in this topic they appear to have changed.
But reports of itunes deleting personal music files are not a thing from the far (6 year) past. Last year and this year they deleted people's songs too. There was some famous musician that complained about it but I can't remember his name (they changed his personal edition to something they had in their store)

"Microsoft has run out of ideas..."

I think Microsoft has no competent top-level managers. It appears to me that Satya Nadella was chosen to be CEO because he was less annoying than the other candidates who were considered. Nadella doesn't seem to have the immense social and technology skills that are required for running a huge technology organization.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was called Monkey Boy on the cover of BusinessWeek Magazine. He appeared to have little or no technical knowledge. He appeared to have no interest in learning.

Because Microsoft has a virtual monopoly, it is easy to make money. (Apple charges 3 to 5 times more, and has only 7.4% of PC computer sales.)

Yeah, that name will be changing.

BT (British Telecom) in the UK already make a Home Hub.

Also "Home Hub" is allegedly already trademarked by Apple.

To support your point, remember what Samsung designs looked like before the iPhone?

Here's a photo reminder:
http://photos2.appleinsider.co...

Basically every high end windows product blows an equivalently priced mac out of the water. Thats why everyone has spent the last few years complaining about apple, and why the latest refresh has been such a disappointment for people.

...and that must by why the latest refresh of the MacBook Pro are breaking all Sales Records, right?

Apple has zero penetration in biz/corporate for Macs. Apple direct and the channel literally do not care, unless you're a school (in which case, you get a ~15% discount and the same service levels from Apple).

The entire Mac market is sales to individuals and some professional services types. The SME market's attitude around IT is largely "make it cheaper", not worth Apple's time or effort. Bigger businesses want proper management tools, which Apple have discontinued or neglected.

You need to update your meme generator.

Apple has zero penetration in biz/corporate for Macs. Apple direct and the channel literally do not care, unless you're a school (in which case, you get a ~15% discount and the same service levels from Apple).

The entire Mac market is sales to individuals and some professional services types. The SME market's attitude around IT is largely "make it cheaper", not worth Apple's time or effort. Bigger businesses want proper management tools, which Apple have discontinued or neglected.

You need to update your meme generator.

For what would you have a bag full of adapters? Honestly, all the angst about the new MacBooks is worse than when they killed the floppy and DVD burner. And we survived that without problems.

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

Apple has about 12% of the market and is number two behind Samsung. Apple takes about 70% of the profit.

So what you're saying, is that iPhones are the most over-priced of all the devices. I don't know about you, but I don't see that as a selling feature....

The answer is obviously yes as Apple has about 12% of the market and is number two behind Samsung. Apple takes about 70% of the profit.

Apple has been losing share and profit, which I think is due to expansion in the lower price segment of the market and the improved quality of Android based phones. I would argue that the "open source, changeable, free (do you mean as in beer or as in speech)" are not factors that most people care about. I think the majority of the smartphone users care about price and usability.

You may find this article interesting then:

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

Aesthetics is a legitimate thing to have a preference on; I mean, let's be honest, that's the reason behind like 80% of Apple purchases

While I agree that aesthetics is a legitimate thing to have a preference on, I utterly disagree that that is "the" reason behind even 20% of Apple purchases, let alone 80%.

And for you to state something so ridiculous just underscores the fact that you simply do not understand what makes Apple products so desirable. For example:

IBM is busily deploying 1,300 ADDITIONAL Macs PER WEEK to go along with the 90,000 they have already. Do you think they are doing that because they LOOK PRETTY?

Shawnee Heights School District has gone from 100% Microsoft to "mostly Apple" in five years. Do you think it was the ROUNDED CORNERS?

Jacobs Medial Center at UC San Diego Health is rolling-out a revolutionary Patient Care System using iPads and Apple TV. Do you think they spent all that Development time and money so their patients can choose TV channels more easily?

And I suppose it is Aesthetics that brings record attendance from IT and business professionals to the Seventh Annual Jamf Nation User Conference to discuss Apple deployment in the Enterprise.

And I am sure that it is the pretty case designs that are causing increased employee demand at Lego for Apple products in their workplace. Afterall, they don't have anything better to do at their jobs than play with Legos all day, right? They don't have any real work to do...

No. Of course 80% of those purchases and development were based on Apple's aesthetics.

By the way, that was just from TWO days' worth of articles from TWO sites. Wonder why NONE of those stories appeared on Slashdot, when it breathlessly announces every time Microsoft or Google so much as blows a fart in their general direction The anti-Apple bias on this site is palpable, and nauseating.

You're as pathetic as Slashdot. Give it a rest.

Aesthetics is a legitimate thing to have a preference on; I mean, let's be honest, that's the reason behind like 80% of Apple purchases

While I agree that aesthetics is a legitimate thing to have a preference on, I utterly disagree that that is "the" reason behind even 20% of Apple purchases, let alone 80%.

And for you to state something so ridiculous just underscores the fact that you simply do not understand what makes Apple products so desirable. For example:

IBM is busily deploying 1,300 ADDITIONAL Macs PER WEEK to go along with the 90,000 they have already. Do you think they are doing that because they LOOK PRETTY?

Shawnee Heights School District has gone from 100% Microsoft to "mostly Apple" in five years. Do you think it was the ROUNDED CORNERS?

Jacobs Medial Center at UC San Diego Health is rolling-out a revolutionary Patient Care System using iPads and Apple TV. Do you think they spent all that Development time and money so their patients can choose TV channels more easily?

And I suppose it is Aesthetics that brings record attendance from IT and business professionals to the Seventh Annual Jamf Nation User Conference to discuss Apple deployment in the Enterprise.

And I am sure that it is the pretty case designs that are causing increased employee demand at Lego for Apple products in their workplace. Afterall, they don't have anything better to do at their jobs than play with Legos all day, right? They don't have any real work to do...

No. Of course 80% of those purchases and development were based on Apple's aesthetics.

By the way, that was just from TWO days' worth of articles from TWO sites. Wonder why NONE of those stories appeared on Slashdot, when it breathlessly announces every time Microsoft or Google so much as blows a fart in their general direction The anti-Apple bias on this site is palpable, and nauseating.

You're as pathetic as Slashdot. Give it a rest.

The screen will be removed soon... and replaced by contact lenses: http://appleinsider.com/articl...

That is true of every smartphone in existence. So what that means is that Apple copied my Nexus phone, so they are more guilty of copying.

They look nothing alike, you are just too pro Apple to even see the differences.

They all look alike, because they have been copying the iPhone (which was quite different from every other phone, and especially every other Android phone when it debuted) since the original iPhone in 2007. You are just too anti-Apple to see that. But maybe this will jog your memory. Or maybe this.

Why must I re-litigate this every other WEEK on Slashdot, when the evidence, dated nearly a YEAR after the iPhone debut and nearly 6 months after its RELEASE, regarding who-copied-who is right there in black and white? Heck, Android didn't even HAVE touch-input capabilities AT ALL until more than a YEAR after the first iPhone debuted!

So please, just stop. You're just embarrassing yourself.

Pure FUD. The adapter they ship is bi-directional. An X-ray of the adapter reveals both a DAC for audio output, and an ADC for input to the phone.

Go tell lies somewhere else, we're all stocked up here.

...You're surprised that a dead OS... At peak times, Netflix generates over 35% of all the traffic on the US portion of the Internet. Guess what "dead" OS powers the servers that create all that traffic?

Dont want to sound like a fanboi but, lots of hate & vendor lock-in comments in regard to Apple truly isn't warranted.

The iPhone 4s (ancient by any smart phone measure) is capable of running iOS 9 while base line for iOS 10 is the iPhone 5.

Adoption of iOS 10 is now > 50% on all compatible devices.

So, while Linux and Android fans hate on, Apple supports and updates it's users.

Ummm so? apple took something good and made something bad out of it. Like many of their acquisitions.

Really? Just because you don't personally like something, doesn't make it "bad".

And if iOS is so bad, why did Android jump on it like a tick on a dog when it first debuted?

Remember Android before and after the first version of the "iPhone OS"? This article lays it all out for you.

Removing the audio port for profit when its the most popular way of connecting speakers is Tim's work.

Wireless! Wireless is critical, We need wireless computer access for ou wireless phones, Land lines and wierd wired ethernet ports are so last year,

But speakers,the only acceptable connection is wired, Nothing but wires.

And you know, I knew Windows PC users who were just as pissed off about Macs losing floppy drives as you are with your fake outrage about removint the phone jack. http://www.everymac.com/system...

Jobs was ridiculed for removeing the floppy drives - https://www.engadget.com/2010/...

Fucking crazy bastard removed Firewire as well, causing more of your type of outrage! http://appleinsider.com/articl...

How in the name of God were people going to access their fine fast firewire devices? The death of Apple, no doubt, and a really stupid move

Now I might not get an iphone 7, although switching from Apple to android would lose me some nice features. But as a deal breaker, the headphone jack is right down there with the color of the home button, especially since my entire family uses bluetooth. It's handy, no wires to get in the way, and otherwise, we don't think about it at all.

I only ever used the headphone jack once, long enough to tell me that my future was using bluetooth. Kinda nice to have a wireless phone that didn't depend on wires. So if for some weird reason I would ever think to connect an amp and speakers to my telephone, I'd use one of any of the fine Bluetooth devices available for purchase.

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

4 dollars.

that's the fee.

Which granted, over millions and millions of devices, is NOT chump change.

But remember that Apple makes a ton of revenue, 233 billion in 2015. So much so they lost 5 billion dollars last year on fluctuations in the foreign currency exchange market(which might be an outlier here, because 2015 was a fucked up year but with Brexit, 2016 might still also be a weirder fluctuation).

So if you look at the raw numbers, in order to even make their revenues push up by 1%, they'd have to sell something like over half a billion headphones and charger docks and whatever else uses lightning. That's one lightning device for every two or three people in the US, Canada, Mexico and Europe. Every adult, every child, everyone young, everyone old, and everyone in between.

It's not revenue. They're also giving you a 3.5mm adapter for anything that you have laying around that isn't lightning enabled already, with replacements costing 9 dollars.

"they'd announce that they were dumping Lightning for USB C"

Didn't they? http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/03/25/why-apple-is-banking-on-usb-c-for-its-all-new-12-inch-macbook-and-beyond

Ah, maybe I'm confused: Thunderbolt, Lightning... How many of these have they invented before USB-C came out?

I'm sure you'll still be able to use Bluetooth headphones with your new iPhone, but I've also heard that Apple's upcoming "AirPods" use a new proprietary standard (big surprise there).

Of course, Apple doesn't have to create a new & incompatible standard just to get better wireless audio than A2DP. They could happily support aptX over Bluetooth (or even AAC or MP3). But I expect the prospect of a whole new field of Made for iPhone peripheral licencing just proved too tempting, so I expect we'll hear plenty about how this glorious new standard is well worth the extra cost you'll be paying.

Apple hasn't even released a mac book with a skylake processor yet

Review of 12-inch Skylake macbook from April

Why bother posting easily falsifiable lies?

Stop being a fucking shill. http://appleinsider.com/articl... http://9to5mac.com/2015/02/19/...

I've hoped so too but apparently Apple aren't ready for it yet. That just leaves the Bizon Box for the moment.

You have?
Amazon has none listed, nor does Newegg, There are none on the Apple store, and only this story http://appleinsider.com/articl... about a Chinese company advertising them on their website with no way to actually purchase them. So while they may exist when the iPhone 7 launches, they currently do not seem to. Seeing how they will need to incorporate a DAC I don't think they will be as cheap as you think.

The one in Memphis has an enormous screen on one wall.

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

They say it's designed to give you the laid-back feeling of shopping in a small town.

Consider the source. This is the same IDC that announced US Mac sales suffered a 1.7% slump when they had actually grown 18% not too long ago. Granted, that was an extreme outlier, but it bears repeating that estimates don't always match reality, particularly when it comes to IDC, since they have an established and documented history of publishing reports that flatter their clients while downplaying the competition. The link above gives details on a number of other irregularities in IDC's data and methodology over the years prior to the incident I cited, such as millions of unverified sales from "other" vendors appearing out of thin air to suppress market share growth in the competition and their history of double-dipping by finding ways to count their clients' products in more than one category while inventing reasons why the competing products are only counted in one category.

Even with all of that said, however, I do expect that the numbers aren't too far off one way or the other, given that Apple itself posted a YOY decline in Mac sales and have had either nonexistent or lackluster updates to their Mac lines so far this year (e.g. only the MacBook has gotten a minor speed bump, whereas the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air haven't gotten their usual updates by now, though that may indicate more significant improvements at WWDC next month).

Not Amazon, but Apple

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

... Since the target audience consists mainly of programmers building websites and web applications, it doesn't make sense to limit it to developers building native apps for iOS and OS X. ...

Another limitation which has been a source of annoyance for me personally is that desktop Safari is exclusively available on the Mac. There was a time when a fully supported version of Safari for Windows existed... that has since been discontinued. So here's to hoping that this Tech Preview version also manages to properly resurrect Safari on Windows.

(Note that I'm a MacHead at home, who is forced into the Windows mold at work... and I'm quite certain that many other MacHeads share my fate. There is, of course, a lengthy method for installing Webkit nightly builds under Windows... for those who are extremely dedicated. Unfortunately, that method has the proverbial snowball's chance in hell of making it past the corporate software approval processes... for those of us who just want it, rather then need it for business purposes.)