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by quitit 5y ago
Piper Jaffray do a semi-annual study on US teens which includes the categories in which apple market a range of devices. The tl,dr: Popularity of apple in youth is and remains consistently high. As this is a US-centric forum conducted in E
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by quitit 5y ago
Their arguments not only miss the point about harm - but make them come across as disingenuous.
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by quitit 5y ago
Isn’t “Faceid” on windows/android just facial recognition with the camera?
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by quitit 5y ago
He does oscillate between what he believes the company is doing well and what they are not doing well in his view. I suppose the motivation here is that he does want the metaverse to happen, but he understands that if the company flubb it t
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by quitit 5y ago
I believe it’s meant to differentiate big ideas(hand waving) versus the difficulty in implementing the minutia of those ideas. The big idea is important, but it’s the implementation which determines if something is successful. The nomad and
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by quitit 5y ago
I guess that it’s now a meme to absurdity - with that there’s Tweets where people are buying up as many as they can get. Like you sat, it’ll wane of course, but if I was buying one of those insanely expensive xdr screens (especially with th
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by quitit 5y ago
Re: the price. It’s expensive at the top end, but Apple have cheaper laptops. If one doesn’t need two dedicated prores encoders and the ability to run a myriad of high definition screens - it’s really better to save money and buy a slower u
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by quitit 5y ago
This is a key factor: bringing the phone to your face is the confirmatory action that validates that you intend to use the device. Its narrow field of view means the authentication only works in deliberate scenarios. Meanwhile the laptop is
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by quitit 5y ago
Just some wild speculation.. Seems logical to keep the paired authentication device on the main body (those which have swapped parts on the iPhone would sympathise with this.) Would faceid on a laptop offer something that touchid didn’t? It
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by quitit 5y ago
I’d say both yes and no - Apple’s now booming services division (which includes the App Store) only started to produce meaningful revenue and profit after introducing a range of ancillary and subscription services. Absolutely agree that
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by quitit 5y ago
Sounds more like they just wanted to use something they already know - which is fine, but not for a lack of capability on the iPad. (Was doing that was back with a gen 1 ipad, a pencil from “53” and a cheap pdf editor.)
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by quitit 5y ago
Demonstrated perfectly by the state of smartwatch processors.
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by quitit 5y ago
It’s also a bit misleading to frame the company on the decreasing margin of one product: because this hides the fact that the margins across the total company have actually increased. The smartphone market is saturated: if Apple don’t spend
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by quitit 5y ago
But Apple don’t need a portable cross platform API which they have limited control over and can’t accurately forecast functionality. They need something they can tightly control which grows side-by-side with their hardware ambitions/p
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by quitit 5y ago
They’re scared of the imperceivably small dent this would make in their profit. Asking this guy’s opinion on the matter is like asking the fox about security for the hen’s house.
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by quitit 5y ago
All too frequently we find tech companies comparing their unreleased products against shipping products. When Apple moved from Motorola to IBM PPC: Motorola soon to release super fast chip updates! When Apple moved from IBM PPC to intel: IB
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by quitit 5y ago
I feel like these sorts of posts suck air away from actual real criticisms of the company and its products. It makes some types of people look like they have a vendetta rather than legitimate concerns, at worst it looks like apple click-bai
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by quitit 5y ago
Unfortunately there is a lot of really wild speculation going on that places a lot of the thinking into “upper management” and ignores the realities of engineering and production. IIRC - This is the first time the battery attachment method
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by quitit 5y ago
Personal anecdote: all major search engines seem to have lost the ability to find esoteric content and terms are now dominated by popular events. I only chalk up this partly to ‘helpful’ AI ( millions of others are looking for this, so mayb
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by quitit 5y ago
Pluggable square still worked with the dongle, but that’s moot since they moved to Bluetooth long before the change (which apple also doesn’t control.) The change was for acquiring space and enhancing water resistance.
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by quitit 5y ago
The real world example is: when you’re in a retail store, that store can see which products you’re looking at and approach you accordingly. That’s not “tracking”, nor is presenting ads that are based on contextual information: such as how D
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by quitit 5y ago
I’m not sure if their pro-lines were an afterthought, rather they weren’t in a good position to strongly differentiate their pro devices. “Disruption” in the pro space is going to be about performance, Apple did leverage their technologies
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by quitit 5y ago
And harmful items are frequently censored - from basic rating systems to the prevent of child pornography: Society and governments censor things that cause harm. The parent comment calls out germany specifically, yet this is a country where
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by quitit 5y ago
The piece attempts to equate reasonable public health measures to former tyrannical rule. These kinds of comparisons aren’t helpful for debate - they simultaneously exaggerate a mere and temporary inconvenience while reducing legitimate pas
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by quitit 5y ago
ah yes… the way apple is using safari to implement unique features to abuse its position while also deliberately breaking standards. /s
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by quitit 5y ago
.. but this didn’t at all support your statement that the App Store generates 37% of apple’s profit. Apple make around 70-80B revenue per quarter, 22B in annual commission is around 6% of annual revenue… That 22B figure doesn’t even touch o
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by quitit 5y ago
thank you that is really insightful, while the article touched on that practice it didn’t explain why. I could see how this helps the buyer’s psychology in other ways - empty shelves could look like a neglected store, which doesn’t speak fr
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by quitit 5y ago
While the graphs are vague, apple’s performance v power graphs show this phenomenon. The highest performing laptops in the market are more like portable workstations rather than mobile devices - while on battery their performance is signifi
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by quitit 5y ago
wouldn’t the purpose of these be so customers don’t continually ask staff for produce they don’t have in stock
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by quitit 5y ago
I’d like a source for the “37%” profit from the App store. Apple’s services division which includes the app store, music service, icloud services, apple pay, apple card, arcade/news/tv+ and fitness generated 20% of apple’s profit

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