I've been eyeing those myself. The technology is interesting. I hope it becomes more mainstream.
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Apple Store Down Ahead of 'Awe Dropping' iPhone 17 Apple Event
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Trust me, though. You're going to love it! 🤣
Let’s see if the pro model price will be affected in the USA.
Hopefully, it stays at $999 or even $1049. I usually sell my iPhone, but it hasn’t sold yet.
Hopefully, it stays at $999 or even $1049. I usually sell my iPhone, but it hasn’t sold yet.
I’ll be watching during a ketamine treatment (for treatment resistant depression, I’ve been doing it for 5.5 years, complete remission of my symptoms!)
Ready to recline back and lift my feet and listen to Tim Apple while I’m high as a kite 🪁
It's better that way. You'll see and hear things the rest of us won't 🤣
Best wishes for continued remission!
I think it's the other way around. The "average consumer" doesn't fall for the crap, they just don't care either way. Marketing is just marketing, and the average consumer just wants a phone or headphones or a watch.
It's the "tech world" that reacts, not the average consumer. And the tech world reacts usually with hundreds of thousands of words of OUTRAGE!!! and DISGUST!!! (and less frequently but sometimes with WORSHIP!!!) Which translates into lots of video and page views, so the videomakers and forum websites get more ad revenue.
And the world keeps turning.
Apple are good at getting people talking about Apple. And they don't even have to pay for it.
The "enthusiast community" will do it for free. Hell, they might even pay to do it, and that's an extra revenue stream right there.
What would be funny would be if, one year, Apple trolls the leakers and "community" and doesn't release anything that remotely matches the leaks and rumors.
I hope there’s something the leaks didn’t know because then it will be exciting, or it will just be the leaks and some won’t happen
The entire world is dying, my friend… but yes, we have a nice little bonfire going here to bring us together 🔥🪵
(…some would argue it’s a dumpster fire)
Yep, I think the leaks are coming too fast and furious in the past couple of years, it takes the enjoyment and suspense out of the events.
It makes the event feel like a bingo card, just ticking off which rumors were accurate.
It also means Apple have very little motivation to make the events more interesting - which means they're lackluster. Why put a massive amount of work into an event when the contents have been already leaked? Comedy segments aren't enough to carry it.
Lots of leaks push Apple to move towards press releases rather than events. "Just give them the spec sheet."
As a kid, I was obsessed with finding out where my parents had hidden the "surprise" Christmas presents. As an adult, I'm the opposite, I want it to be a surprise on Christmas morning.
No, after 30 years of being excited about Apple the joy of looking forward to an Apple event just seems to be diminishing. The NxtPaper just seems interesting for the new screen technology.
Excited to see how they justify USB 2 speeds over a cable on iPhone 17. Hope I’m wrong.
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I bet most sales come from resellers anyway, who wants to buy from Apple at msrp besides ppl burning gcs and the uninformed.
This man was probably doing God's work back when people knew little to nothing about computers.
