They dropped the price of the EarPods from $29 to $19 and also took the 18w usb c adapter from $29 to $19 and boosted it to 20w.
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'Good Morning America' Offers First Hands-on With iPhone 12
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How does anybody watch these folks with all the fake laughter and camaraderie? What a waste of time, but I knew that before I clicked on the video. Haven't watch a minute of this stuff in over ten years. Good reminder why...
I’m the opposite. I don’t even think twice about Apple not including chargers in the box (or headphones for that matter), as I’ve got so many around the house and office, I don’t need more. When I got my iPad Pro almost two years ago, with its 18w USB-C charger, realizing how fast it was, I started buying USB-C to Lightning cables and then additional PD-USB-C charger bricks, so I could have them for travel and office use for charging both my iPad and iPhone 11 Pro Max.
And now I‘ll buy one of the MagSafe charger pucks when the 12 Pro Max launches, but thankfully won’t need to buy additional charger bricks, since I’m stocked up on those.
Thank you!
All these comments slamming GMA... have they ever seen any morning show? They're not for us tech forum readers.
Also... do other phones get this kind of coverage?
GMA gets over 3 million viewers every morning. Did they feature the Galaxy S20 or pixel 5? That might have boosted sales for them.
Only Tim Cook can answer your fist question and I don't think he has an account on these forums. They are removing two components from one of their top selling product families which saves them resources from manufacturing to distribution and reduces the environmental impact. Are consumers seeing any of those savings? I think so because look at the significant improvements from the iPhone 11 to 12. OLED and 5G. Samsung charges $100 for 5G alone so that is more than double the cost of the earbuds and adapter.
I’m willing to bet he has one but the embargo on when he can release the video hasn’t been lifted yet given the extra time before we can pre-order.
I think you're in the majority and your iPhone will be one of millions of adpaters that will never be manufactured and shipped due to Apple's decision.
People complaining about the review ... the typical GMA audience member is not on a tech rumour forum complaining about about the lack of 120 Hz on the new iPhone ...or even know what that is.
She only gets a couple of minutes so get to the basics - size, colours and camera. She wasn’t about to do a teardown or conduct benchmark tests.
Give her a break folks!
She only gets a couple of minutes so get to the basics - size, colours and camera. She wasn’t about to do a teardown or conduct benchmark tests.
Give her a break folks!
I agree but what makes the financial one a "true benefit" and not the environmental benefit not true? If I hate Apple I'm going to say it's because Tim Cook is a evil greedy villain and if I love Apple I'll say it's because he cares about the environment. Maybe he's a evil greedy villain that cares about the environment? I mean his motives are irreverent to the positive impact this will have on the environment. If positive change to the environment can be motivated by greed I'll support that. If it's motivated by love I'll support that too!
Fine - but is anyone in a position to let us know the actual efficiency of a MagSafe charger used to charge a 12?
Exactly this! I can bet a huge majority of my friends have no clue what the refresh rate is on their phones. Non tech people do not care about this. This is one thing that drives Android techy people crazy. People buy iPhones and Android phones to have a phone and it works.
Nice infomercial!
Now, what a failure the $59 wallet it's...100 magnets and you have to manually move it to the correct position?
Even after that it remains slightly twisted to the right 😒
Now, what a failure the $59 wallet it's...100 magnets and you have to manually move it to the correct position?
Even after that it remains slightly twisted to the right 😒
I could almost reference my last comment as a reply to this. If you're one of the few that wants to know the power efficiency of a specific charger rest assured there will be a YouTuber that will show it. Most people aren't that techy.
I must know how many times did you have to watch this to notice then watch again to make screenshots. The exact position of the wallet must be really important to you.
In the longer run, having neatly spaced and round-ish price points is probably a larger marketing benefit for Apple than having to deal with the backlash of people feeling the removal of these items should have resulted in a price reduction. But then again, these neat price points really only exist in the U.S. which by now represent only about 40% of their sales volume.
One time to notice, and the second time I scrubbed to the part to make the screenshots. If you notice the wallet in the first screenshot, it's covering the camera...
This segment reminds me why I don’t watch (old) network tv. 🤮
ABC is owned by Disney, who’s largest shareholders, I believe, is still Steve Jobs’ estate? Sooo, maybe?
Also to add to the preposterous “it’s the environment!” line Apple is feeding us, wouldn’t it be smart for them to have a program to trade your old USB-A brick in for 25%-50% off the new USB-C? “Take it out of your drawer, and Apple will recycle it, so it doesn’t end up in a landfill”.
You don’t need to use a USB-C charger...a USB-A one will do just fine. I know I have at 5+ Lightning cables hanging around, and at least as many charging bricks of various sizes; I actually threw a few out recently.
This is stereotypical but TV is mostly a 45-50 and above. I am a gen-x and have not watched broadcast TV in .... 15 years. I still watch a lot of “TV” just nothing broadcast. Maybe I did at a hotel or something ... not sure. Agree about YouTube and the next gen. Personally I dont think MKBHD is a great reviewer but I know who he is and my kids would never think of going anywhere but YouTube to see a review for a product.
It's free advertising for Apple and viewers for GMA.
The type of discussion GMA will have on the iphone 12, will be quite different than other youtube reviewers, who will nitpick and compare every nuanced aspect of the iphone 12 against other iphones and Android phones. What ensues afterwards is a bunch of heated discussions about what matters, what doesn't matter, what is actually right, what is actually wrong, how it's overpriced, etc. Past history is a good arbiter of the future when it comes to this.
Probably would have broken the richest company in the world even less. Capitalism at its worst.