Slashdot Mirror

Sorry to reply to my own post; but this needed saying:

Apple also made a HUGE update to Logic Pro X and MainStage 3 a week or so ago.

https://www.appleworld.today/b...

https://www.appleworld.today/b...

AND they released a HUGELY DISCOUNTED Bundle of "Pro" Apps for Students and Educators (and yes, they are the "full" versions of the Apps) :

https://www.appleworld.today/b...

So, yeah, Apple is listening...

Sorry to reply to my own post; but this needed saying:

Apple also made a HUGE update to Logic Pro X and MainStage 3 a week or so ago.

https://www.appleworld.today/b...

https://www.appleworld.today/b...

AND they released a HUGELY DISCOUNTED Bundle of "Pro" Apps for Students and Educators (and yes, they are the "full" versions of the Apps) :

https://www.appleworld.today/b...

So, yeah, Apple is listening...

Sorry to reply to my own post; but this needed saying:

Apple also made a HUGE update to Logic Pro X and MainStage 3 a week or so ago.

https://www.appleworld.today/b...

https://www.appleworld.today/b...

AND they released a HUGELY DISCOUNTED Bundle of "Pro" Apps for Students and Educators (and yes, they are the "full" versions of the Apps) :

https://www.appleworld.today/b...

So, yeah, Apple is listening...

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.

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.

For the few that need a reminder, the iPhone7 also lacks a headphone jack,

And for the few that need a reminder, likely neither will the Samsung that replaces the S7 line.

And for those people who are hand-wringing over the 3.5mm jack removal on the iPhone 7 (even though Apple includes an adapter for free), this company has a nifty little adapter for $10 that has a 3.5 mm jack and a female Lightning port, so you can charge and listen at the same time. They also are going to offer a $20 unit that will have both dual Lightning ports PLUS the 3.5 mm jack. So that "problem" is well and truly solved.

Share of users, share of traffic, and share of revenue differ.

Safari has a 4.28% market share on the desktop

Among people willing to buy products and services from Internet businesses, the market share is probably bigger than 4.28%.

and a 14% share on mobile.

Among people willing to buy products and services from Internet businesses, the market share is probably bigger than 14%. Tim Stenovec of Tech Insider summarized a report from IBM Commerce stating that iPhone and iPad users outspent Android users over 3 to 1 on Black Friday 2015. The average iOS user also spends over 9 times as much on paid apps and IAPs than the average Android user.

Assume for a moment that the average iOS user spends 20 times as much money online as the average Android user. If that's the case, then 14% of the users represent 14*20/(14*20+86)*100 = 77% of the money. I don't remember where I read this 20-to-1 figure, but it at least appears consistent with the IBM Commerce report.

Quote: "Developed closely with Apple, it plugs into the Lightning connector making it possible to use Lightning Audio headphones or the Apple Lightning to 3.5 mm Headphone Jack Adapter and charge your iPhone at the same time. "

http://www.appleworld.today/bl...

"Abigail Brody (an ex-Apple designer, which Apple hired last year)"/em

Wait, Apple hired her last year, and she's already ex-Apple? Must be good, then.

No, she left Apple in 2011, so she's been out of the iOS-loop for a LONG time. From her bio, it sounds like she left Apple as part of the "Great Skeumorphic Purge" that also ousted Scott Forrestall.

Personally, I'd say she stays at a company until they figure out she's a poser, then moves on.

Considering Apple cannot design ANYTHING lately that doesn't piss off their customers, it's probably a good idea they don't try to start a TV service.

No, of course not. All they make is failure after failure; particularly in the Set-Top-Box market.

So, now we have some duelling Projections.

This report says that iPad Pro will sell more in the first 3 months than all of the Surface sales combined.

So now what?