Previously people was willing to pay because of their enthusiasm to the new innovation in iPhone. When those innovations faded out, the enthusiasm are also faded. Now the question, what can motivate people to pay a lot more other than innovation? Luxury? Exclusiveness? Bigger display? Longer battery? Lighter?
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Gurman: Apple Considering New High-End iPhone Alongside Pro and Pro Max
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Board of directors: We don’t know how to increase sales without spending money to make our iPhones better!
Cook: Don’t you worry. I know how to do this. That’s why I’m the CEO. We’ll release an iPhone Pro Max and call it iPhone Pro Max PRO-er!
Board of directors: YASSSSSS!!!!!
Cook: Don’t you worry. I know how to do this. That’s why I’m the CEO. We’ll release an iPhone Pro Max and call it iPhone Pro Max PRO-er!
Board of directors: YASSSSSS!!!!!
Smaller phones don’t sell. Why should Apple keep making them.
Bring it on............Demand will be great, People want an ultimate iPhone with great bells and whistles as well superior Battery power and camera Underscreen face I.D. and as well as portless would be a nice start
iPhone Pro : $1000
iPhone Pro Max : $1500
iPhone Top-of-the-line : $left nut
iPhone Pro Max : $1500
iPhone Top-of-the-line : $left nut
I also know many people who use 10 year or older Mac’s, 5 years or more iPads and iPhones and most are not tech savvy enough to even update as they believe it will either break their device or change the experience, some of these people would be better suited to just use a non-smart phone flip or candy bar shape phone but to their logic that’s obsolete while some return to the non-smart phone flip devices thinking their cannot be tracked.
Even though the general consciences is that record discs, VHS, ATRAC, etc are obsolete there are always the outliers or stubborn or misinformed that it’s not and we the masses don’t know what we are missing. I am sure there is someone out there with the OG iPhone who still believes it’s not obsolete as it functions like the day their purchased it and all it needs is a battery replacement 😝
Disregarding Apple's marketing, in the English language the ranking of comparative and superlative adjectives varies according to interpretation, but here's my attempt:
Good (Positive), Better (Comparative), Best (Superlative), As Good As Possible (Super-Superlative), [The following are "comparative" superlatives:] Super, Ultra, Mega, Colossal, Titanic, World-Shaking.
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Apple has discussed selling a new top-of-the-line iPhone alongside the Pro and Pro Max models in 2024 at the earliest, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Based on this timeframe, the device would be part of the iPhone 16 lineup or later.
In a September 2022 edition of his weekly "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said there was "potential" for an iPhone 15 Ultra to replace the iPhone 15 Pro Max this year. In today's edition of his newsletter, however, he suggests Apple might instead release the Ultra as a new highest-end, higher-priced model next year at the earliest.
"But instead of renaming the Pro Max 'the Ultra,' Apple could add an even higher-end iPhone above both Pro models," said Gurman. "Internally, the company has discussed doing just that — potentially in time for the 2024 iPhone release."
It's unclear how the new high-end model would differ from the Pro and Pro Max, but Gurman speculated that the device could feature additional camera improvements, a faster chip, a larger display, and perhaps a portless design without Lightning or USB-C. He said the device would be "pricier" than the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which starts at $1,099.
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Don't like what appears to be the new trend at Apple. Before there products varied in price based on functionality type of work the owner did. Now it seems like they are making products to be targeted to social class buyer. The ultra expensive iPhone to be a status symbol and other models with diminished functionally for low class buyers.
Because Apple and car manufacturers only relatively recently worked out how to make wireless CarPlay work. There are millions of vehicles out there without a wireless connection and only a wired one. If an iPhone doesn’t have any ports, it can’t connect to those vehicles. With the minimal value that a wireless phone would bring it becomes an anti-feature in that situation.1. buy a new carDD
2. stay with old phone
my question would be - why wired CarPlay exists in the first place.
Greed is good.
Nobody worships an iPhone.
If they just called it the “penultimate”, then they would have room for “one more thing”.
Who is this “we”, kemo sabe?
Explain “bleeding everyone dry”, please. Did that mean old Tim Cook come over to your house or apartment and force you to buy Apple products At the point of a gun?
Or did he send his guys ”Vinnie” and “Joey” over to “encourage“ you to buy Apple Products?
For those who don’t know, it’s Vinnie who has the scar running down the side of his face. Joey‘s the guy with one gold cap and one missing tooth right next to it.
You say that like you actually might do it. I say if Apple has broken your knees, skull, and heart so badly, you absolutely, positively MUST escape your tormenter by going back to Android.
You seem angry. Are you okay?
When you lead a large publicly traded company, you must show increasing growth in earnings to be successful. Nothing else matters, and if you don’t produce, you can and you WILL be removed from your position.
Supply Chain is NOT all about generating money, money, and money. Apple may have lost some vision, I suppose. But it‘s never fully clear. What I said
above is 100% true though, and that is that a company must be growing its earnings many times over…both each quarter compared to the year-ago same quarter, and also annually.
Apple‘s earning growth has slowed for this year, and is only going to increase by 9% in 2024.
No, Apple isn’t going to go out of business or anything drastic like that. At least not yet. But they are in a world of hurt right now, and it’s only because they are no longer a “super-powered” company. They’re just a “mere mortal” company right now, and things aren’t so easy for them.
If you took Superman’s powers of flight, x-ray and heat vision, and strength, and then made it so he could nick himself shaving in the morning and stub his toe when he’s out chasing down leads with Lois, he’s going to need time to figure out how to cope with that. And he needs to cope before he can start winning again.
This is where Apple is. Nicking itself shaving and figuring out how to cope in a post-Covid world where most people won’t be upgrading every 1 or 2 years.
Seriously. I hope they aren’t daft enough to make it even more complicated but we’ll see
Was expecting Apple to rename Pro Max as Ultra. Was also expecting it to be launched this year. iPhone Ultra may be much costlier than Pro Max.
If that ultra-high-end iPhone could have a 4" screen, THEN we'd have something! Happy to pay $1499 or more for that!
I need to see some real data. I use high end PC workstations, and I also use high end Apple Laptops. I have hard time finding a comparable PC laptop even remotely close to what Apple offers. I am not talking some 10 Min Benchmark videos. Heck Apple M1 Max makes my 4090 GPU run around circles. Nice rant though.
That’s the only way a higher sku would make sense. It’s a foldable iPhone into something like an iPad mini. Anything else in the same form factor is likely just going to be features that would’ve went into the Pro Max instead.
Whoa flight plan, chill. No need to go and attack, you seem angry too. Peace out.Greed is good.
Nobody worships an iPhone.
If they just called it the “penultimate”, then they would have room for “one more thing”.
Who is this “we”, kemo sabe?
Explain “bleeding everyone dry”, please. Did that mean old Tim Cook come over to your house or apartment and force you to buy Apple products At the point of a gun?
Or did he send his guys ”Vinnie” and “Joey” over to “encourage“ you to buy Apple Products?
For those who don’t know, it’s Vinnie who has the scar running down the side of his face. Joey‘s the guy with one gold cap and one missing tooth right next to it.
You say that like you actually might do it. I say if Apple has broken your knees, skull, and heart so badly, you absolutely, positively MUST escape your tormenter by going back to Android.
You seem angry. Are you okay?
When you lead a large publicly traded company, you must show increasing growth in earnings to be successful. Nothing else matters, and if you don’t produce, you can and you WILL be removed from your position.
Supply Chain is NOT all about generating money, money, and money. Apple may have lost some vision, I suppose. But it‘s never fully clear. What I said
above is 100% true though, and that is that a company must be growing its earnings many times over…both each quarter compared to the year-ago same quarter, and also annually.
Apple‘s earning growth has slowed for this year, and is only going to increase by 9% in 2024.
No, Apple isn’t going to go out of business or anything drastic like that. At least not yet. But they are in a world of hurt right now, and it’s only because they are no longer a “super-powered” company. They’re just a “mere mortal” company right now, and things aren’t so easy for them.
If you took Superman’s powers of flight, x-ray and heat vision, and strength, and then made it so he could nick himself shaving in the morning and stub his toe when he’s out chasing down leads with Lois, he’s going to need time to figure out how to cope with that. And he needs to cope before he can start winning again.
This is where Apple is. Nicking itself shaving and figuring out how to cope in a post-Covid world where most people won’t be upgrading every 1 or 2 years.
You’d buy the proprietary MagSafe car connector with built in connectivity. Shipped separately, in another box, on another day, from another truck in the road, because that’s best for the environment. Can’t include it in the box and have it come all at once now.
It’s crazy because those AW editions were selling for 10-17k when they came out and Apple stopped supporting them after 2018, no wonder they stopped selling them a year later and we got stuck with the ceramic versions which they even got rid of those.
I saw one come up on the second hand market for like 6k but it wasn’t working and needed work, I figure only 1% of apple die hard fans would get it out of nostalgia but wouldn’t surprise how many topics we would of people here returning their iphone 16’s like they did with with the 14 pros
If you gave me a high end iPhone that can run MacOS in a VM and output it to an external display (AirPlay or USB-C), I’d be very happy.
We know it’s 100% possible at this point. The Mac Mini dev kits for the Apple Silicon transitions ran MacOS on an A12Z. We just need an iPhone with 8+ GB RAM.
I know this is probably a pipe dream but I’d absolutely use it when traveling. Hook it up to a USB-C dock that can connect to monitor, keyboard, and mouse and it’s a full computer.
We know it’s 100% possible at this point. The Mac Mini dev kits for the Apple Silicon transitions ran MacOS on an A12Z. We just need an iPhone with 8+ GB RAM.
I know this is probably a pipe dream but I’d absolutely use it when traveling. Hook it up to a USB-C dock that can connect to monitor, keyboard, and mouse and it’s a full computer.
If you gave me a high end iPhone that can run MacOS in a VM and output it to an external display (AirPlay or USB-C), I’d be very happy.
We know it’s 100% possible at this point. The Mac Mini dev kits for the Apple Silicon transitions ran MacOS on an A12Z. The A16 beats it on both single and multi core. Crappy Android phones can run Windows 11. We just need an iPhone with 8+ GB RAM.
We know it’s 100% possible at this point. The Mac Mini dev kits for the Apple Silicon transitions ran MacOS on an A12Z. The A16 beats it on both single and multi core. Crappy Android phones can run Windows 11. We just need an iPhone with 8+ GB RAM.