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Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by daigoba66 »

smcl wrote: post #253
jblow wrote: post #93

Usually I have upgraded, but I currently have no intention of buying an iPhone 7 or later, unless they fix something! For me it's a double whammy. I don't like the lack of headphone jack, and whereas I feel like I could manage grumpily ... for me it kills the excitement of buying the new device, and I think that is important. (My standard listening headphones are Etymotic ER-4Ps; there is no way I am going to downgra…

In your usability rants I have every one of those problems too (particularly autocorrect and swiping). I wonder how widespread this is? I'd like to add four more: 1. iTunes is slowly degrading into a usability nightmare - recommendations are often albums I own and bought from Apple! 2. the OS itself seemingly picks apps at random for the "play" button on the "swipe-up" menu. Like I might play a podcast on, say, Monda…

Thankfully you can turn off voice control in iOS 10. Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Home Button.

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Post by Havoc »

itg wrote: post #7

The numbers coming out of Apple next quarter will be interesting. iPhone 7 has been underwhelming and reception to the latest MacBooks Pros has been mostly negative. And if sales are on a downhill trajectory, I wonder what the response inside of Apple will be.

>I wonder what the response inside of Apple will be.

They'll take the battery out of the phone to make it 2mm thinner...and then you get to plug it in via dongle. #courage

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Post by jacobush »

tdkl wrote: post #326
jacobush wrote: post #313

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Plex (premium) works surprisingly well for me with music. Can sync or play from server. Should work in Linux too. https://launchpad.net/~plexapp/+archive/ubuntu/plexht

> Tip!: The Mobile Sync feature requires an active Plex Pass subscription for the main Plex Media Server account. Paying for being able to transfer files within 1m ? Yeah no. Thanks for the tip though.

Well iTunes is not free either. I paid lifetime fee. It's expensive but to me worth the peace of mind. And should Plex go bad, it forces you to keep your files in a decent structure, so I feel confident I could migrate them to some other solution pretty easily, should push come to shove.

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Post by kombucha2 »

tempodox wrote: post #270
Godel_unicode wrote: post #244

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Serious question: why do you not use the "upgrade during off-hours" option? With my iPad it usually takes a few times because it's not on the charger that often. I always assumed a phone would be (I'm on Android).

Because just blindly upgrading is a REALLY bad idea, as with OS X. I wish I could downgrade some of my iDevices to an earlier OS.

made the mistake of upgrading a friends \phone thinking it needed it like an android device...nope basically bricked it. I mean the 4s worked but but it was essentially not usable at that point. Gotta love planned obsolescence.

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Post by gm-conspiracy »

owly wrote: post #304
georgyo wrote: post #235

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This could be true, but they choose to stick with the lightning connector. Which gives them licencing rights. Getting money from licencing is the only reason I can see for them having only the lightning connector. They could have switched to USB-C, became standard, and then switched to one port. Then at least the head phones you but would also work on your shiny new MacBook.

Exactly. Users can't even use their lightning headphones on a new Mac. The move to remove was a mistake, but there is no going back now. That would be admitting to a design flaw.

I am surprised nobody has responded to this comment with the USB-3 male to female Lightning adapter solution.

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Post by j2bax »

_Codemonkeyism wrote: post #217
ryao wrote: post #204

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I thought the removal was to recycle the space while making waterproofing easier.

The removal is to introduce a way to control which headphones are connected and to get license payments in the future.

Doubtful. My guess is within 1-2 generations max the iPhone will have USB C to follow the Macbook line.

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Post by gm-conspiracy »

LoSboccacc wrote: post #247
jblow wrote: post #93

Usually I have upgraded, but I currently have no intention of buying an iPhone 7 or later, unless they fix something! For me it's a double whammy. I don't like the lack of headphone jack, and whereas I feel like I could manage grumpily ... for me it kills the excitement of buying the new device, and I think that is important. (My standard listening headphones are Etymotic ER-4Ps; there is no way I am going to downgra…

same here. still on a 5s waiting on a reiteration of se. all you said applies to me as well plus the new generic form factor which is uninspirning bust most importantly too large for comfortably pocketing the real thing that keeps me locked to apple for now is the app commitment, but if a se2 fails to materialize I'll definitely jump to android at the end of life of my 5s

I just bought a used 5s w/ 64GB of RAM, also waiting for a decent SE2.

I've been curious about the Sony Xperia Z5 compact.

I would really like a Kickstarter for replacement form-factor main boards for classic iPhones (4S,5S) to run modern android or something.

I have so many "obsolete" phones with working hardware and barely usable software.

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Post by izacus »

fuayenaha wrote: post #309
izacus wrote: post #297

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Why? It works the exact same way as Apple and Google push notification implementations do.

It requires you to have an active connection to the server all the time.

Just like Apple Push or Google FCM. How would that work otherwise if not with an idle connection? :)

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Post by throwanem »

johnny22 wrote: post #330
spronkey wrote: post #239

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It would annoy me a lot less if Apple (and the rest of them, to be honest) didn't just change stuff for the sake of change. Like oh hey, let's change four finger swipe up gesture to not be a toggle. Just because. Or, oh hey, let's just remove your battery life indicator. Ugh. Makes me scared to update anything.

Is it really just because? I've seen this mentioned before, but there must be some reason right? I've never owned an iPhone (or any i* devices), so I have no experience here, but aren't the folks at Apple likely to do stuff for a reason? Or are things really that bad?

They've recently screwed up enough things badly enough to severely abrogate user trust, and I don't think they even realize it.

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Post by massysett »

drusepth wrote: post #72
sschueller wrote: post #57

Do we know if the lack of headphone jack has any effect on sales?

AFAIK all we have are anecdotes, but I know a half dozen friends that decided to "try Android" to keep their headphone jacks. It's very possible they'll go back for the next iPhone iteration, but they didn't buy the 7 because of it.

What Android did they buy?
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