rkbabang Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 FYI, a number of PC laptops don't allow to replace a battery anymore either. Check before you buy. It is partly annoying, though in most cases batteries of my PCs/phones outlive the item itself (something else dies before battery dies). But then I usually don't need long battery times on laptops and I've been lucky so far with the phone. Some of my friends had worse experiences where the battery goes in 1-2 years and you have to replace a perfectly good phone. I Mr. Money Mustache and keep my phone for 4 years+, so there. And BTW a phone costs as much if not more than laptop, so arguing that it's OK for phone to be replaced when battery goes is silly. I expect to replace a phone after 2 years, so I don't worry about the phone battery. Also, it is easy to plug the phone in at home, in the car, in the office, I have chargers in all three places so my phone rarely gets drained to empty. The laptop isn't used as much as the phone, but it isn't as convenient to plug it in on the go, so if I leave the house with my laptop, I am not likely to plug it in in the car, and It means that I'm not going to be at home or in the office (where I have desktop computers), so I need it to last all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picasso Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 It doesn't seem like being unable to swap out the battery is a big negative for Macbooks. In three years, it will have better resale value than any other laptop. As long as you don't smash it up and go crazy with the battery cycles. In three years you could probably sell a $2k Macbook for $1k, go get a new Macbook, rinse and repeat. Seems a hell of a lot better than keeping an old laptop and putting in new batteries. Maybe it costs $1k over three years by doing it that way, but that's not expensive at all. $27 bucks a month? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roark33 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Wait you can sell old MacBooks...man, I have a pile of them in my storage room because my wife wants to "save" the pictures. Oh well..... I am still waiting for Apple in the 80s, 70s, or 60s....maybe next Q. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 I agree with all of that when it comes to phones, but the expected life of a laptop is longer than for a phone. In fact I expect any laptop I buy to outlive 2 batteries, if not 3. I wouldn't have that expectation for a phone. It is an expensive inconvenience to not be able to do it yourself. How long do your batteries last and what do you do to them? I've never owned a macbook, but I've had Dell laptops where the battery holds noticeably less charge after only about a year and a half. I've replaced it with an aftermarket battery which only lasted about a year. I'd expect to keep a laptop 4-5+ years these days. My 2007 Macbook's battery lasted 4-5 years. And it wasn't a pro model. Dell probably doesn't use very good batteries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neiljgsingh Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 I agree with all of that when it comes to phones, but the expected life of a laptop is longer than for a phone. In fact I expect any laptop I buy to outlive 2 batteries, if not 3. I wouldn't have that expectation for a phone. It is an expensive inconvenience to not be able to do it yourself. How long do your batteries last and what do you do to them? I've never owned a macbook, but I've had Dell laptops where the battery holds noticeably less charge after only about a year and a half. I've replaced it with an aftermarket battery which only lasted about a year. I'd expect to keep a laptop 4-5+ years these days. My 2007 Macbook's battery lasted 4-5 years. And it wasn't a pro model. Dell probably doesn't use very good batteries. Interesting... I had no problem getting my battery replaced on my MacBook Pro Retina 15" just a couple of weeks ago. It was out of warranty so it cost me $300, but obviously that's much better than buying a new machine. Have you specifically been turned down for a battery replacement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Tim Cook discovers 'iPhone' in 346-year-old painting http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/apple-tim-cook-discovers-iphone-346-year-old-painting-article-1.2649376 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Not clear how serious they ever were, but apparently they considered buying TWX last year: http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/26/report-apple-considered-buying-time-warner-last-year-will-ramp-spending-on-original-tv-content/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phaceliacapital Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Yes and another recent report indicated interest in Netflix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCG Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 There are various reports out there that Apple is changing to a 3-year cycle for major refreshes to the iPhone. If this is true, it seems like a clear admission from Apple that they're greatly slowing down on ideas how to improve the iPhone. Seems like that could be a huge hit to their revenue. http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-iphone-slickest-releases-may-hit-3-year-upgrade-cycle/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 DCG, I agree. iPhone is Apple's largest revenue and profit driver (by far). If the new model this fall has no new 'must have' features then people may hang on to their phones a little longer and sales may be suffer. In this environment it will be difficult for Apple to post revenue increases. However, the year they do introduce a phone with new 'must have' features will be a monster year for the company.... looks to me like this will be the Sept 2017 product launch. My guess is we will see lots of volatility in the shares as Mr Market falls in and out of love with the shares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorysk87 Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Revenue growth slows, but costs also decline. Margins shouldn't get hit too hard. That's mostly what I care about. As long as margins don't drop precipitously, AAPL can spend time deploying some of their >$200mm of cash in developing new products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roark33 Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 I have bought Apple twice this year and currently hold a fairly large position, so take what I am saying with a grain of salt. However, one way to look at this is good news. The bigger fear for me isn't that Apple's revenues won't grow to the moon (I never believed that anyway), but that the stability of their revenues would be in question. iPhone users rarely switch, so the problem becomes a longer upgrade cycle, and I am fine with that. What worries me more is that Samsung or some other company comes out with a truly better phone, like 10x better. If Apple is struggling to add new features and the Samsung S7 is basically on par, then both are fairly equal phones. If you are currently an iPhone user, I have little doubt that when you do decide to upgrade (software, battery, broken or stolen/lost phone), I am fairly confident it will be to an iPhone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fareastwarriors Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Early days, but Apple Pay struggles outside U.S. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-pay-idUSKCN0YN61U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boilermaker75 Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Just got an iPad Pro 12.9" I have been playing with it 30 minutes and I already love it! The pencil works so much better, infinitely better, than a stylus on my older iPad. The sound is great, it has 4 speakers. All apps transfered and working. It was a breeze to set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunrider Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Short of the phone being linked to my brain (without invasive hard/wetware interface), how much better can the phone itself get? Put another way - it's not the phone, it's the apps, the usability of the OS, and the content that matter and keep people tied to the device, in my view. C. I have bought Apple twice this year and currently hold a fairly large position, so take what I am saying with a grain of salt. However, one way to look at this is good news. The bigger fear for me isn't that Apple's revenues won't grow to the moon (I never believed that anyway), but that the stability of their revenues would be in question. iPhone users rarely switch, so the problem becomes a longer upgrade cycle, and I am fine with that. What worries me more is that Samsung or some other company comes out with a truly better phone, like 10x better. If Apple is struggling to add new features and the Samsung S7 is basically on par, then both are fairly equal phones. If you are currently an iPhone user, I have little doubt that when you do decide to upgrade (software, battery, broken or stolen/lost phone), I am fairly confident it will be to an iPhone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Short of the phone being linked to my brain (without invasive hard/wetware interface), how much better can the phone itself get? But seriously it could get a lot better with 1000 times the processing power, and 1000 times the storage, and even 10 times the battery life. Also more/better sensors. It should know its location and orientation in space to the nm (not only on earth, but elevation above any object below it and elevation from sea level). It should "know" when and how it is moving/turning/tumbling through three dimensional space (to the nm/sec) as well as its current acceleration. It should recognize not only your fingers as they touch the screen, but both your voice and your face and only respond to you. You should be able to talk to it naturally and it understand whatever you say to it. It should decipher accents and slang and even mixes between languages such as spanglish. You shouldn't have to speak slowly or carefully when you talk to it. If you say "hey siri I'm in the mood for Let It Be by the Beatles" It should know what app you usually use to play music and start it up and play the song. If you don't have the song, it should know what app you usually stream with and open that and search for the song, even if it means opening youtube and finding it there. It should figure out the best way to play you the song and play it. If you say "hey siri a little louder" it should make it louder, or "siri quiet", shut it off. If I say get me to whole foods, it should know that I use Waze most and it should open that and search for the nearest whole foods. If you say "hey siri I need coffee bad" it should know which coffee place you prefer and ask you if you want to go there or this other one that is closer. After you answer it should place the online order for your coffee, because it knows how you like it and it will be ready when you get there. All this even if you've never been to the coffee shop in question. It could also see your hands and use gestures to control it rather than touching the screen, maybe project holograms in 3D space for you to manipulate. There is a lot that could be made better. Apple is spending like $10B+/year on R&D I hope a lot of that is going into AI research not just the Apple Car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgis Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 This would make me buy iPhone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fareastwarriors Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Apple tries to finds its voice with Siri as it looks to catch up in AI Technology group has fallen behind rivals Amazon, Google, Facebook in artificial intelligence http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/44b69bd0-2ef0-11e6-bf8d-26294ad519fc.html#axzz4BBov1XC4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgis Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Apple tries to finds its voice with Siri as it looks to catch up in AI Technology group has fallen behind rivals Amazon, Google, Facebook in artificial intelligence http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/44b69bd0-2ef0-11e6-bf8d-26294ad519fc.html#axzz4BBov1XC4 Disclosure: I don't have Apple phone, I don't have Amazon Echo. I have Android phone and I've seen Amazon Echo at friend's. Looking at the graph in the article, I've done the internet search via voice on Android. Quite a lot in fact. Useful feature IMO. Haven't done other things. I'm not sure if Waze now allows voice input. It would be useful. E.g. saying "confirm accident on right shoulder" instead of having to touch the phone to report/confirm things on the road. Looking at the Echo graph, I would use it to set timer/alarm. But IMO the cost is way too high to buy it just for alarm capabilities. I would not use the "play song/read news" capabilities. Might use it for internet search. For Echo location in multi-room/multi-storey house is somewhat an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 It really disturbs me to hear that Apple has apparently seriously considered buying Netflix recently. Not because it is necessarily a stupid idea, but because whatever an idea it was, it was a much better one 4 years ago, when they had just as much incentive to consider it. If Tim starts establishing a pattern of paying huge premiums to buy his way into markets -he- should have seen the importance of years ago, then we're going to have to start discounting that cash pile by a lot more than before. The Beats acquisition is already a huge strike in this area, forgivable only because it seems like Jobs may have been the barrier to pursuing the streaming model. But ~50 billion dollars for a company that was well under $10 billion just a few years ago, with no intervening change in either the business model or the industry's general perception of the model's "inevitability"? I would be too embarrassed to present that deal to my shareholders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fareastwarriors Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Pressing Apple to Innovate Doesn’t Play to Its Strengths http://www.wsj.com/articles/pressing-apple-to-innovate-doesnt-play-to-its-strengths-1465790460?mod=LS1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCG Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Glad they finally rebuilt the disaster that is the Apple Music App. To bad we have to wait several more months for it. ...off to reactivate my Spotify subscription. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Glad they finally rebuilt the disaster that is the Apple Music App. To bad we have to wait several more months for it. ...off to reactivate my Spotify subscription. I previously said that I didn't mind the music app, but I recently found a better one. It's called cartunes. You tap anywhere on the screen to play and pause, you swipe anywhere on the screen to go to the next song, and you hold your finger anywhere on the screen and move it up or down to change the volume. You can control it without even looking at it while driving. Safer than using your car's stereo. My biggest problem with Apple's music app was that the controls are so small and hard to find that you need to look at the phone to use it, not good while driving. I'm not sure the changes they are making will fix that problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fareastwarriors Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Apple’s Tries to Peek at User Habits Without Violating Privacy ‘Differential privacy’ is an effort to harness insights about what a group of users is doing, not an individual http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-new-tech-will-peek-at-user-habits-without-violating-privacy-1466069400 ~ Ireland and Apple Brace for the Worst as Tax Endgame Nears http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-16/ireland-and-apple-brace-for-the-worst-as-tax-endgame-nears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fareastwarriors Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-ordered-to-stop-sales-of-iphone-6-and-iphone-6-plus-in-beijing-2016-06-17?siteid=yhoof2 Apple ordered to stop sales of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in Beijing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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