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Apple's Jeff Williams: Native Apple Watch Apps Coming This Fall, Apple Watch Sales are 'Fantastic'
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Yeah, and I'm pretty sure that if the company logos would have been swapped in the background, you would have found it funny.
Watch sales.
iMore has an unboxing of the black stainless steel watch.
I wish I had waited. Absolutely fantastic.
I wish I had waited. Absolutely fantastic.
Dunno about that. Just turned 64 and am having a blast picking out the parts for my new build.
I would agree that the need to upgrade is not as urgent as it used to be. Even mid-level computers are extremely fast nowadays. My current PC build is about 6 years old and still doing pretty well.
By the way I am also greatly enjoying my rMBP 13. And my iPhone 6+. And my iPad Air. Am not an Apple hater, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with everything Apple does. It would be better if they gave buyers the option to upgrade drives and memory on their new products. I don't see how it could negatively impact users like yourself who don't wish to bother upgrading their devices.
Well, they announced the policy back in October months before it went on sale, so probably neither.
Most of their competitors don't announce phone sales. Apple still does. My guess is that they don't want to establish a precedent of disclosing more than their competitors do. By putting it in "other" they also don't set the expectation that this is the next iPhone.
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Probably because back in October they said they weren't going to disclose sales figures for the Watch. My guess is that they expected sales to be relatively modest by Apple standards.
Actually no, I don't find hyperbole based on false premise to be funny. There's nothing funny about misrepresenting something. the "apple tax"n "no games", and "throw it away" are outdated arguments, no one upgrades a laptop. no one upgrades an allinone. The prices are within a pretty close parity when you compare similar machines/form factors. and thre are a surprising number of games available. Get new talking points or GTFO. I use both windows and OSX machines. I'm platform agnostic. but fantards are annoying.
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You can upgrade drives, the new PCIE interface ones are just extremely limited and impossible to find outside a system pull. Plus cloud storage and ubiquitous broadband are making drive upgrades not as necessary.
Nope.
The days of people building there own PC's are not even close to being over.
Machines are NOT growing old pretty fast. In the past few years, things have leveled off a bit to where a 4 year old computer is still usable and major upgrades are not necessary. About 10 years ago, I would have to upgrade nearly everything every 2 years. Now, my system is like 4 years old and still running great. Still no need to upgrade. I would like to, because I enjoy getting new hardware and setting up the system, but all the games I play and things I do on the system are running great. No need to upgrade yet.
Exactly, I only have to upgrade a video card every 4 generations or so, processors about the same. Adding RAM and HDD space I don't consider "Upgrading" because the same RAM and HDDs can be used for almost a decade across multiple builds. and aside from the Mac Pro, most of the Mac form factors aren't machines that you'd be able to upgrade a windows version of either.
But they want us to think it's the next iPhone and if the sales figures don't support that it won't look good for their marketing. If sales are outstanding, why not give sales numbers? It's a win win situation.
Apple Job Interview:
"Do you know how to say the words "fantastic" and "amazing" in every sentence?
"Yes. This job interview is just amazing and I know I will be a fantastic employee."
"You're hired."
The guy has to add, everything I do will be "magic"... Got fairy dust in my pocket... Otherwise it is no go ;-).