Yes if they are going to price it so its a viable option for a child. Who buys a child $1000 phone?
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Yes if they are going to price it so its a viable option for a child. Who buys a child $1000 phone?
I love the smell of tech elitism in the morning. Take a good whiff because you won't smell it anywhere else.
Or maybe $1000 if you keep the phone 3 years isn't that big a gift or even an expense.
In the 1980s to 1990s, tech things given to children were arguably much more expensive than now.
Apple computers would have been insanely more expensive than now.
I got a C64 + drive + monitor from my parents in 1983 and that was $1350 then with tax, the equivalent of $4000 now.
Parents have given expensive gifts to their children for some time.
An equivalent Apple computer would probably be $6000 in todays money.
People forget how expensive computers were back then.
Families (2 adult workers) that make $100-500K a year? Which I'm guessing buy Apple product in very substantial quantities. Apple products last many years, so the actual cost per year is not that big an expense.
The phone plan is arguably the biggest expense in having a phone these days anyway.
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Real time. So, no. But nice for playing the sarcastic wheel spin.
In this thread we are educated on how mature and cultured and above this everyone here is.
But seriously, this is going to amaze a whole lot of people. People with joy in their souls, of course.
But seriously, this is going to amaze a whole lot of people. People with joy in their souls, of course.
Great to know how the sales figures will be for two unannounced phones.
People that aren't old. Age isn't necessarily just a number, btw.
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I like how humanity is going back to hieroglyphics.
I think these are lowerglyphics.
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From a historical perspective, each generation laments what the next generation does to the language, among other things.
All this and still no updated Mac Mini
With the price tag of this phone, iPhone 8 IS the new Mac mini.
Difference between a C64 or any older computer then and an iPhone now is that the computers of yore were seen as an investments in ones education and by extension, ones self growth. A home computer was also a new tool that had seemingly endless utilities, the only utility in smartphones is isolation.
I'm not concerned with destruction of language. I'm concerned with how many hours of top-tier engineers and programmers were assigned to this...
Come on, seriously, education was about 20% of the actual use (though parents wanted 80%
and yeah, I had a lot of my friends with C64s.The utility of smartphones is a lot more than that and you know it.
Like all tools, it can be used in good and bad.
Considering face-id is likely linked to that tech (not to mention AR functions and possibly things linked to how the camera functions), you've built a kind of straw man argument.
This cool use is a nice perk instead of the main goal.
Also, the main goal of a company is to differentiate their products enough and in significant enough way that someone will buy it and not another. If this is part of what it takes, they will put as much engineers on it as it takes.
Stop reading my mind! That was my first thought on reading this article.
My second thought was "the kitty is cute."
I like turtles.
I'm sure it will be a fun little gimmick, but I'm still not getting the urge to buy one.
This is the kind of thing app developers have been doing for ages. It's like a built-in "Talking Tomcat" or something. A little more polished, sure, it's Apple...
This is the kind of thing app developers have been doing for ages. It's like a built-in "Talking Tomcat" or something. A little more polished, sure, it's Apple...
Many things have been built that really didn't improve people's lives, at least at the time. People built palaces that benefited only a handful of people yet took time, engineering and money. Their intended purpose was for the comfort and ease of a few but today many of these places are tourists destinations, and support thousands. It just wasn't what the original owners had in mind when they commissioned them.
So maybe they are creating the Emoji Palace of Versailles.
At least one other person gets that this isn't about 3D animated emoji, it's about the underlying tech that makes it possible.