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Open the iPod bay doors, Siri.
Apple's Middle Age
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They could have easily compromised their vision by including touch ID and/or a button. Samsung does this all the time: include every option, just so no one is left unhappy.
They did compromise their vision, in a way much worse than including a fingerprint sensor on the back. They put in an ugly notch.
The notch creates a distinctive silhouette for iconography, it vanishes during use. It's certainly not a net loss.
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#84The most interesting points of the article were this: 1) iPhone unit sales growth has essentially stagnated, because the overall market has reached saturation. 2) Apple has successfully managed to maintain growth in the face of 1) by increasing revenue per device (ASP). I think the question of "What does Apple do, now?" is a hugely important one. However, I disagree with the author that the only reasonable approach A…
>I don't see Apple deciding to not create a product that attempts to answer that question.
It's funny you say this and then bring up AR. Apple has been ignoring VR and AR for a few years now. Sure they released an SDK but it felt like a box they had to check more than an attempt to innovate.
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> Even iPhone X shows they can still bet big with their flagship. Does it? The iPhone X (which is a great phone and one that I own) is a Galaxy S8 with a Face ID scanner. They didn't "bet big" on it, it was the only logical place to take their market.
Also doesn't have that Bixby shovelware or exploding battery feature. I get that a lot of Samsung phones are shipped and sold, but there's a difference in shipping shit at scale and shipping quality engineering at scale, and it's a tale told in decades, not single years.
>there's a difference in shipping shit at scale and shipping quality engineering at scale
Ok guys, do we tell him how much Samsung hardware is in an iPhone?
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
They did compromise their vision, in a way much worse than including a fingerprint sensor on the back. They put in an ugly notch.
Personally I don't think it's ugly. I think having a solid bezel across the top but not the bottom would actually look worse. And it actually makes the new gestures more intuitive: swiping down from the left of the notch does the same thing that swiping down did before, and swiping down from the right of the notch opens control center.
> I think having a solid bezel across the top but not the bottom would actually look worse.
Doesn't need to be asymmetric. Have a look at Galaxy Note8.
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#87Apple’s growth is almost entirely inwardly-focused when it comes to its user-base: higher prices, more services, and more devices I find myself increasingly stuck in an Apple 2011 - 2013 universe. For starters Apple has not yet provided a viable upgrade for my primary desktop machine: a 2011 Mac Mini (2.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 with 8 GB ram and SSD). The specs on the current 2018 Mac Mini lineup are considerable…
I just looked on the Apple store app and you can get a Mac mini with a 3.0ghz dual core i7 and 16 gb of ram.
My point exactly. 6 years have passed and only a 0.3 GHz improvement in CPU speed and not much else.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
They did compromise their vision, in a way much worse than including a fingerprint sensor on the back. They put in an ugly notch.
The notch creates a distinctive silhouette for iconography, it vanishes during use. It's certainly not a net loss.
Unless having a notch was their vision (which you are implying, but I highly doubt), they compromised. And as I said, the compromise was much bigger than having a discreet sensor on the back.
That you got used to it is irrelevant. People got used to not having control on their own hardware too, doesn't mean anything.
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#89I really like stratechery, but I don’t get this post. Example Instead, I think the order goes like this: Customer owns an iPhone Customer subscribes to Apple Music because it is installed by default on their iPhone As an Apple Music subscriber, customer only has one choice in smart speakers: HomePod (and to make the decision to spend more money palatable, Apple pushes sound quality), from which Apple makes a profit W…
How do you decide which product to make?
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#90I really like stratechery, but I don’t get this post. Example Instead, I think the order goes like this: Customer owns an iPhone Customer subscribes to Apple Music because it is installed by default on their iPhone As an Apple Music subscriber, customer only has one choice in smart speakers: HomePod (and to make the decision to spend more money palatable, Apple pushes sound quality), from which Apple makes a profit W…
How do you decide which product to make?
I have read somewhere, that Apple has a prioritized list of products to build, which they update yearly at their top 100 (?) leaders’ workshop. Maybe someone from Apple reading this could comment :-)