Hardware gross margin is somewhere around 33%, currently services GM is about 63%.
But of course Apple needs hardware to sell the services, so they’re going to keep manufacturing hardware for the foreseeable future.
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Apple Teases Tomorrow's Special Event With Humorous 'Live Stream' of Steve Jobs Theater
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But of course Apple needs hardware to sell the services, so they’re going to keep manufacturing hardware for the foreseeable future.
This is the most unexcited I've been for an Apple keynote in a while.
We've been watching the stream at a glance for around six hours now, over which time we've seen everything from people cleaning the stage to a video of a dancer to an incoming iPhone call from Captain America actor Chris Evans. Marvel fans will be disappointed to hear that Apple missed the call.
Just saw another call from Chris Evans, the lock screen notification said 4 missed calls. Interesting that the time was also current Cupertino time.I wonder how much self-agrandizing we will have to suffer through from Bean-counter-n-chief Tim Cook.
If Services will not kill them, transition to ARM will. PPC architecture to mainstream x86 was hard, now imagine transition the other way around to ARM. It is so much harder to pull off. I don’t think current management is up to the task. of course all the focus on “services” is not helping
I’m sorry, but Apple died with Steve Jobs....and I hate it.
Apple is teasing its media event tomorrow with a tongue-in-cheek "live stream" of the Steve Jobs Theater on its website.
We've been watching the stream at a glance for around six hours now, over which time we've seen everything from people cleaning the stage to a video of a dancer to an incoming iPhone call from Captain America actor Chris Evans. Marvel fans will be disappointed to hear that Apple missed the call.
Update: NBA star Kevin Durant may be at the Apple Event tomorrow based on the latest teaser of an iMessage conversation with Tim Cook. Apple is working on an original series about Durant's early life for its streaming video service.
Apple's keynote begins at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Monday.
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No, it's hardly a gadget.
TB-3/USB-C is the future and thus all new Apple computers will sport TB-3/USB-C ports. Even the new MacBook Air has TB-3. People who want USB-A should go elsewhere. The Mini was not designed to be a graphics or high-end video editing workstation. There are better options for that. However, if someone really wants to edit their next Hollywood blockbuster film (kidding) on a Mini, I suppose one of the TB-3 connected graphics crates could work.
An i3 is perfect for someone with entry level computing needs; thus the base price entry level Mini comes with one. Need more cpu power? Simply pay for it. Easy. I have no idea what a "turbo" SSD is. But the Mini uses a super-fast NVMe SSD with Apple's custom controller. Need more SSD storage? That's easy as well. Pay for it.
Need a 10 Gbit ethernet interface (important to me)? It's available for just $100 extra. A bargain, imo.
Need more than 8 GB of RAM (not everyone does) to float your boat? No problem. Pay for it.
Sometimes people need to hook up more than one display. Also no problem, as the base Mini can handle up to three. Right out of the box.
All in all it's an extremely versatile and well-priced very compact desktop computer. With options to meet the needs of many. Including mine.
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My reason for wanting it is pretty simple. In a family full of iPhone users, my wife and I are Android users. Having iMessage would be wonderful for group chat, unlimited character length, unlimited photo, video and attachment size, read reciepts, end to end encryption, etc. Theres really not a reason to NOT want it.
Also, there is no iMessage alternative on Android. You have facebook messenger and whatsapp (a facebook owned company) so theres no way i would EVER use those as there is 0 privacy. There are other smaller options like signal, telegram, viber, kik, etc... But no one is EVER going to convince all of their contacts to sign up for a random 3rd party service. I understand countries outside of the US dont use SMS and so depending on what your friends are using you might have a handful of different apps just to communicate.
In the US, we primarily still use SMS, which is pure crap. Its the equivalent of using dial-up when the rest of the world has moved on to fiber. RCS is supposed to fix this, but Apple may not support RCS and so then it becomes a moot point. You also have to remember that iPhones make up less then 15% of phones worldwide. Just because they are popular in the US doesn't mean they are popular everywhere.
Honestly, its stupid of Apple to NOT release iMessage for Android. Blackberry did the EXACT same thing in the 90's with BBM. Once/IF RCS does come along and becomes the new standard, Apple will be trying to play catch-up (like BBM tried a few years ago by releasing to other platforms), but the world had moved on. If Apple released iMessage now before RCS catches on, they could completely capture every market and be the standard of mobile messaging.
Sadly, it's just the way some people are who are perpetually unhappy, and get a wee bit joy and power that is otherwise lacking by lashing out at some person or company.
Breaking Bad was good. Saul died out quick for me after season 2. I tried the tick and it was just too cheesy for me. Haven't seen the others listed.
Such as? As 'revolutionary' as the iPhone was, it wasn't the first phone of its kind. Most credit IBM's 'Simon' with being the first smartphone, and it was released 13 years before the iPhone, in 1994. Blackberry also had released an internet phone before the first iPhone. There are probably others.
That's not to knock the iPhone, but it shows that if the iPhone had never been developed, we would probably all still be using a smartphone today anyway. A lot of companies were close to releasing this type of product in 2007, and a few had been working on something recognizable as a smartphone for a decade before then. Would that non Apple influenced smartphone look and act the same? In many ways yes, and in a few ways probably not, but we will never know what those additions and subtractions would be.
Computers? When the Macintosh was released in 1985, it used a Motorola 68000 cpu. The Amiga also used one, and the Amiga also used 2 co-processors, one for video and one for sound, to further increase its speed. The Mac was monochrome, the Amiga could display 65,000 colors. The Mac could only run one task, the Amiga was multi-tasking.
In short, a lot of the 'advancements' weren't developed by Apple, they were improved upon by Apple. The iPod wasn't the first portable music system, it was the first one where you didn't have to worry about whether the digital music file was pirated or infected with viruses. The genius of the iPod, besides the elegantly simple controls, wasn't the songs it could play but the service, iTunes, and what it provided- a safe, legal and relatively cheap place to buy music.
If you want to argue about reliability, then Apple did have a deserved reputation. Their computers were more expensive but lasted longer and with fewer problems during that time. And the OS was more stable than Win98/ME/XP (at least before SP3) Vista or Windows 8.
When I first bought my first iMac in 2008, I joined this site to get news and tips. One of the things that annoyed me (and with some posters, this still annoys me today) was the out and out worship of Apple and especially Steve Jobs. He was, during his second run as the CEO of Apple, smart, decisive and focused. But he wasn't always right.
Now things have flipped 180 degrees. Tim Cook, and by extension Apple, can't do ANYTHING right in a lot of peoples eyes. And they pine for a non-existent past with Steve Jobs at the helm. Unless someone has information otherwise, Tim and company didn't suddenly kill every product and concept under development after Jobs died. We are just now reaching the end of the 'After Jobs' era. The products and software released in the last 8 years were probably all started under Jobs. That's definitely not to say that what the end result turned out to be is the same as what it would have been if Steve Jobs had lived, but I bet the technology and much of the software behind it wouldn't have been very different.
There are things I wish that Apple would quit wasting time on (self driving cars) and things I wish they would spend more time on, but had you asked me what those things should be in 2006 I wouldn't have guessed phones and tablets. And I doubt that anyone who was a teen or adult at that time would have guessed them either.
Who knows, maybe in 10 years Apple will have beaten Tesla in the car market and all of us bad mouthing Tim in that department will have to eat crow. I don't think so, but I've been wrong before.
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This is so incredibly true. Trying to negotiate movie and show rights has always been difficult and with everyone- including Apple- trying to start their own streaming service that's probably going to get even more difficult.
More credible idea of why they are doing it? This show will be very big. Remote locations? Clips from projects? The stream needs to be rock solid. Only way to test it is live.
Which "market" are you referring to that's being ignored? And what data do you have to back up your assertion?