I'm not sure where you're located, but the rumors of this cheaper iPhone would be for emerging markets like South America, China, India, where price is an issue. We may not even see this phone in North America or Europe.
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Apple's 2013 Product Roadmap Predictions: Multiple iPhones, Retina iPad Mini, All-Retina MacBook Pros
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I'm not sure where you're located, but the rumors of this cheaper iPhone would be for emerging markets like South America, China, India, where price is an issue. We may not even see this phone in North America or Europe.
This just in. Industry sources expecting trees to continue to generate oxygen well into the third quarter of forever.
I have come to the same conclusion. I'm currently planning on replacing my iMac with a i7 Mac Mini with Fusion Drive. $300 for 16GB RAM? Sorry Apple, I just can't do it
Why think of it as a cheaper iPhone? Apple doesn't make cheap products, why would they start now? The mini isn't, as some ignorantly insist, a cheaper iPad, it's a smaller iPad that happens to be less expensive. Apple produced a smaller iPad and focussed all its attention on this one differentiating factor: smaller size; and they did a great job. With a new iPhone, they could easily find a feature or attribute on which to focus in a similar way. They could create a nano-like environment where it supports basic apps, but you can't buy or load any new ones on it - some of us would find that interesting because we don't want anything more than basic apps on our phone, we don't use our phones as a full-fledged computer, so most of it is wasted to us anyway. Maybe they focus on size of the phone. Maybe they focus on some other element, and in the end it will most likely be less expensive, but that doesn't mean it'll be a cheaper iPhone.
I think that iPad 4 with lightning was actually quite discussed (of course, mini was main rumour target).
iPad3 was released in March together with iOS 5.1, so yes it was accompanied by a newer iOS release as well.
As for mini, yes there are rumours but no parts and no details.
So if I take all of Apple's current products and them randomly place them on a 2013 calendar timeline, I can also be a high-level analyst? Apparently this analyst has not heard of the Mac Pro, Tim Cook promised to update that in 2013. Nice timeline...
Well I suspect that just upgrading the processor and increasing to 16 GB of ram can be done for about same price now as when Apple released the 3rd generation a year ago. The A5 single core might not even be a chip they want to keep making. Also, could they put the new wifi chip that is coming out in this thing in a few months?
If they raise the memory to 1 GB along with an A6 chip, they could have a device that can play Apps nicely. This is such an obvious extension of Apple TV (with your iOS device of choice being the controller) that I think it might behoove Apple to get devices that can handle this out to the populace even if the software upgrade doesn't get pushed right away.
I would encourage you to travel outside of US or at least read up about how other country sell their smartphone. Your rational work well for Apple in a carrier subsidy model. And Apple dominate in those countries. Unfortunately the rest of the world don't have the level of income that US or Western Europe countries has and they sell their smartphone unlock with bare bone monthly 3G cost. And Apple fails to gain traction in those countries. A $600+ Iphone vs $150- $300 Android is not much of a competition if the income level is a limiting factor. Outside of US, consumer pay $10-15 a month for 3G service (without any phone subsidy)
I'm about to splash out on a new 27 imac and have been reading most of the threads on the imac subforum. What are the major issues? I really havn't come across any big complaints other than the delay and inability to upgrade components.
The point is finding growth areas in a market that is quickly reaching maturity. Today's economy requires companies to constantly be showing growth in order to deem them healthy. Right now, Apple's biggest revenue generator is the iPhone. Expending that brand into other segments (lower cost segments) is a nice way to keep the growth going.
Looking at numbers from IDC/Gartner and others, 2011/2012 were probably the peak years of growth for the smartphone industry. Apple can't keep riding that wave forever and now they need to diversify in order to keep their growth going.
Apple painted themselves in a corner with the iPhone's success in a way. It's been so succesful for them in the last 3-4 years and its generated so much growth for the company that sustaining that growth is now going to get harder and harder as markets reach maturity and the industry settles into more of a competitive race rather than a pure growth race (IE, instead of gaining new users, vendors will be fighting to cannibilize users from each other).
If Apple doesn't think there's much of a market for big, heavy, old school tower type computer things, they should at least make it a little easier for the few left who do still want one to install OS X on a custom built one.
I'd be happy with a compromise like that.
His whole prediction is skewed to 3Q 2013. THIS is why he is not in logistics. Ya gotta spread this around a bit or you're going to trample the supply and delivery chains. 
I don't know... it's pretty damn easy right now to build one. Even with off-the-shelf pre-built PCs.
what a load of bollocks.
rMBP is pretty damn fine as it is - why would they change the form factor again so quickly?
Oh yeah they want to add an optical drive and a serial port...
rMBP is pretty damn fine as it is - why would they change the form factor again so quickly?
Oh yeah they want to add an optical drive and a serial port...
Who said anything about changing the form factor ? A "redesign" could simply entail moving a few ports around.
I use an 8 GB fourth gen. It's good for Spotify and a subset of my music collection that Spotify (which you can cache offline on mobile) doesn't have. I plan to upgrade to a fifth gen this spring because I need Bluetooth 4 for a home automation project, but I can't say it hasn't served me well. Worthless is a clear understatement.
Given the complete lack of clarity in his message, a PAdPro wouldn't be out of the question.
I would love to see a stunning update to the MacPro, but given the complete lack of care it had received for 3 years can't see it happening.
People go on how the chipsets don't support TB or USB 3, making excuses for them. When in reality all it would take is a small increase in cost and phone call to Intel to create a workaround. Even if it was something a slap dash as PCI-E TB cards.
Seems pretty clear to me :
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/tim-cook-something-really-great-coming-in-2013-for-pro-mac-users/