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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.
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.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
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).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If Apple builds it, they will come.
Well then I'm going to wear a raincoat on September 7.
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.
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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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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?