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Apple Announces Event On September 7: iPhone 7, Apple Watch 2 Expected
New iPhones are coming, Apple hinted today. The Cupertino-based giant announced on Monday that it will host an event on September 7. The rumor mill suggests that the company would announce as many as three iPhones -- the iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, and the iPhone 6 SE. Recent reports suggest that Apple may also announce the second-generation of Apple Watch. No new iPads are expected. The company is widely rumored to refresh its Mac lineup -- though they are likely to be launched at a later point. The biggest talk point around the iPhone 7 has been the headphone jack -- or its lack thereof.
New macs will suck just as bad with ports removed.
It can be as bad as max 2 usb-c / TB 3.0 ports with no 3.5 jack or power only jack and you want to use the old ports that will be $29.99-$49.99 more. want an power + usb-c / tb3 one that will be $19.99.
Apple has always included plenty of ports in the pro models, and they will continue to do so...
Yes they are removing ports on the lower end models but it's making the laptop thinner and 99% of the people using them do not need the ports they are taking out enough that it matters they are gone.
There's nothing wrong or odd about having multiple lines of product that serve the needs of different users.
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No 3.5mm no sale
Apple iPhone7 + Watch 2 = Apple 9.
Since M$ skipped Windows 9, Apple should skip (7+2) too...
Or else the numerology Gods will get angry!
Like when Eve took a bite of an Apple.
Apple watch should jump right to three, Just like windows 3.0 came after 1,0
Now all my superstitious ducks are in a row....
I need to wear my pointy hat now
amen
So far, Apple had been promoting itself as a fashion company, but now, w/ this range of watches, they should really get into the jewelry market. Their rivals ain't Google or Samsung or Microsoft: they are Swarovski or Zales. Indeed, Swarovski should buy Microsoft and add an LCD screen w/ Windows 10 IoT to its wrist bands, and promote the value in the LCDs, as opposed to the software
But having 2 USB-C / TB 3 ports and 2 USB-C non TB is very unapple. Also the thin push may force them to cut usb-A ports.
When Steve was alive Apple shipped new products when Steve thought they were ready, which was a pretty high quality bar. Today Apple ships whatever compromise they can to make sure they hit the Xmas season, like any other shareholder driven corporations (nobody with Steve's position to oppose them). This is why Apple product quality is now no better or worse than all other major players. I miss the old Apple where products actually worked and someone had the guts to say "This is a crappy user experience, go back and fix it!".
Finally I can dump my iPhone 6+ in the trash! It was getting pretty old, I've had it for over 6 months now.
Lots of people thought a new Apple Watch was coming out at the beginning of this year. Nope! Apple will wait until they have a good set of updates for the second model - though the UI overhaul with WatchOS 3 makes the old ones even more useful and speedy...
I'm still not sure they will deliver a new Apple Watch until next year. No need to rush.
As for the phone, they have a relentless machine that's not rushing anything to market, just incrementally improving the phone year by year, with whatever can fit in with a high level of quality. That's not rushing anything. If they find something doesn't work well they just leave it out until the next model (as they have done in the past).
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...is the Cult of Jobs. It's a lot creepier, and you must always remember to run the other way when a cultist appears. Fortunately the true believers always telegraph themselves by referring to him just by his first name, as if they went to the same high school together and were best buds for decades.
If Apple continues their trend with the Mac mini, the 2016 model will be a single-core CPU clocked at around 800MHz with 512MB of RAM and a 4200RPM, 250GB hard drive connected via IDE.
Why does every article about a tech company have to give their address out. Who gives a shit.
If the rumours of Apple moving to a three year cycle for the design of the iPhone are true then I'd be surprised if they brought out the iPhone 7 this year. Especially with next year being the 10th anniversary of the iPhone which will probably bring a big design refresh.
Not that I care because all I want is the smaller screen with all of the features that the larger phones have. Since Apple isn't making that phone I'm staying with my 5s.
My prediction is that they're going to come out with a new line that is even less repairable than before, and they'll make sure you need plenty of expensive adapters to use all your old peripherals!
I don't know why people continue to buy these machines. They're often inferior spec-wise unless you go to the top of the line models that are generally overpriced and all you're really getting is OSX which isn't that great.
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A dingo ate my sig...
Don't call me, I'll call you when I need to replace what I have now, as it works just fine.
Total non-event for me.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
The thing is, jewelry usually is durable.
It's nice and shiny and expensive today, and it's supposed to continue being nice and shiny and expensive in the future.
(Unlike fashion where, after a couple of months, the clothes are just good to be thrown away and you certainly wouldn't like to risk be seen with things on you which are "so last season" !)
Whereas, with the current hardware in smartwatch (similar to circa when Apple introduced the world to a smartphone that can only handle charge for a couple of hours and needs to be constantly docked), current smartwatch will be completely worthless in a couple of months.
You still need to wait a couple of years until Apple's smartwatch are at the point where their current phones are (sure there's going to be an even better out eventually, but for most people, their current device works for everything they need most of the time, so why bother changing ?)
- That explain why Apple (and other smartphone manufacturers) has jumped so soon on the smartwatch bandwagon. It's not only to have a piece of the Pebble's cake, it's also that they finally have a new product that they can again force their sheep-customers to rebuy every year.
- That means that Apple can't yet partner with jewelry makers. Their customer want long-term value storage. Something that they can buy now and that will still hold value a couple of years later. Whereas a potential Apple Jewel would cost a lot today, but in a few years down the line it would be just an expensive platic/metal trinket attached to a somewhat valuable bracelet.
(And that's not only my opinion. That is the actual market analysis of a couple of swiss luxury watches makers who have looked into it)
The only way a jewelry smartwatch could be popular now, is if the jewelry make sold the bracelet as the primary product, with the possibility to upgrade the electronic timepiece as model generations come and go.
That might be possible with a manufacturer like pebble where the form-factor seems more or less stable.
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It doesn't cost $800 to manufacture an iPhone. More like $100. In the US it would maybe be $150. It is Apples greed that is the blame.
Depending on who your carrier is, it makes more sense to upgrade every year than not. For example, if you are on an existing Verizon Share Everything plan, having a phone on a payment plan knocks $25 off the $40 per month line charge, and after half of the phone is paid off - in 1 year - you can trade it in and upgrade with no money out of pocket or just sell the phone outright and pay off the current payment plan then finance a new one (I actually turned a $200 profit doing this last September). As long as you don't buy the phone with the largest storage option, you can finance a phone for less than $25 per month and actually end up paying less than if you paid off the phone in 2 years or bought it outright.
Another added benefit is that your phone is always under warranty. iPhones are only warranted for 1 year by Apple. If you upgrade every year, you never have a phone out of warranty.
In this case, the suckers are the ones who buy their phones or pay them off and don't upgrade. You think you'll be saving yourself the monthly payment, but it comes back when the monthly returns to $40.
I miss the old Apple where products actually worked
You mean like the first iPhone, that had a battery that barely held a couple of hours, and certainly not to the end of the day ?
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At the time they released their crap, I had :
- an old EPOC-running Ericsson stupid phone. With which I could go on vacations *without* taking a charger.
(Similar to all the Nokia that people still have, lost somewhere at the bottom of a drawer. Still in working order. With the battery still at ~30%)
- paired over bluetooth to a PalmOS 5.x running PDA, that could do anything that the iPhone did back then (web, e-mail, calendar, contacts, notes) and more (ssh, and other 3rd party apps), while holding charge for 1-2 days of heavy use, or up to a week of light use.
- and I was complaining loudly a lot, because since the switch from m68k to ARM processor, battery life had massively sank (the previous PDA could hold for a week of normal use, and I could safely go on vacation without a charger), and I found ludicrous to need to buy a power-sledge for my newer device.
Apple didn't announce products once they were good. Apple announced product as soon as Jobs could bluff his way through an impressive demo (while needing to remember the exact order of clicks/taps to avoid the product crashing on scene like Gates' demos)
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They're often inferior spec-wise unless you go to the top of the line models that are generally overpriced
Which by the way is also the case of any non-beige box PC...
(Self-built hardware is the king !)
and all you're really getting is OSX which isn't that great.
Compared to what ?
To Linux ? Yeah sure. (OSX is the "bargain bin" of Unix, but with a nice coat of paint).
To the craptastic clusterfuck called Windows 10 ? Your mileage may vary...
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The BOM for an iPhone 6 is around $242 and that doesn't take into account the costs for developing and maintaining the software, tooling, R&D, packaging and the 101 other things that go into building and launching a phone. All of which need to be amortised over the lifetime of the phone - as developing, testing and then deploying an update to a bunch of 2+ old phones isn't free.
(although many Android manufacturers have found that it can be free if they simply don't bother with pesky updates)
The only way it would be "more like $100" is if you pulled that figure out of your butt.
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It doesn't cost $800 to manufacture an iPhone. More like $100. In the US it would maybe be $150. It is Apples greed that is the blame.
There are always lines around the block on launch day. People cheerfully buy tens of millions of each iPhone. If people are willing to pay that price without a gun to their head, and there are alternatives that they could buy instead but they choose to buy iPhones anyway, how do you justify describing it as greed?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
As long as you get to define "pro model" and "plenty of ports" then sure.
I guess it wasn't clear to you but the context is obviously laptops... and it seems pretty obvious a pro-model laptop IS the one with a lot of ports.
Or, duh, is called a "pro". In fact that alone would be definition enough for me, whatever laptop model Apple felt like attaching Pro to will have a lot of useful ports.
Of course, the topic was Macs, not just Mac notebooks,
The main topic was, not what I responded to. But then as we'll demonstrate in a moment you have no reading comprehension...
the current "Mac Pro" is the very definition of "not plenty of ports"
Well since you are obviously an idiot what's the point in saying anything further?
Mac pro ports:
"Designed with built-in Thunderbolt 2 (6!), USB 3 (4), Gigabit Ethernet(2), and HDMI 1.4 ports"
Who would not consider 6 thunderbolt2 ports alone "a lot of ports"?
Come back when you are substantially less retarded. I know I won't be waiting up.
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It's going to take me a lot to upgrade. I've got an iPhone 6 Plus now. It's two years old but man, I've never had such a good phone. The phone battery has never actually run empty, and regularly I come home after a day with still 75% left. The screen is large and bright. All apps launch fast (except Facebook, which I deleted and now use in the browser). I can set the font nice and small, while still readable. The fingerprint-unlock is amazing, and it takes real great pics and optically-stabilized movies of my kid.
Not sure how they can improve it.
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