FACT: This "Banana Phone" has spawned its own video on YouTube. How sad.
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The MacRumors Show: Frank McShan Talks Yellow iPhone 14 and Apple's Color Options
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And not just the one.
So far… 15 videos and counting.
I guess anything to create "content".
Man you guys are absolutely obsessed with this yellow phone. This is a 1 hour podcast about a yellow phone. Incredible.
Apple comes out with a new color and we're gonna make a one hour video about it and make it news of it all over the place.
What a boring world the Apple world must be.
They came out with widgets about 5 years after the fact and same thing happened.
Same with being able to slide on the keyboard to type.
Same with the always on screen.
Motorola, Nokia, Samsung have all had yellow phones, no one made a big deal about it.
What a boring world the Apple world must be.
They came out with widgets about 5 years after the fact and same thing happened.
Same with being able to slide on the keyboard to type.
Same with the always on screen.
Motorola, Nokia, Samsung have all had yellow phones, no one made a big deal about it.
When your business model relies heavily on one product line and that product line has hit peak saturation and maturity, then yes it does boil down to making a big deal out of a new color.
WoW these video thumbnails look like some very cringy apple junkies. Thank God I’ll never waste my time watching that.
This much excitement over a new color. Sloooooooow news day.
The reason Apple can't get away with a premium price on the home accessories like HomePod and Apple TV is that there is not enough interaction with software when using those things to justify the premium price. The iPhone, iPad and Mac are each devices that are great because of their hardware and the software that is on them. And we interact with that software on those devices all the time as we go from application to application. But when using speakers or streaming to our TV, we spend the vast majority of the time just getting content. And the content is the same on those devices as it is on competitor devices.
For me, an Apple Fan Boi with disposable cash, sure I have an Apple TV and HomePods. The integration into the Apple ecosystem is useful and the devices are immaterial purchases (especially when one considers that they last for years and years). If Apple is content selling just to folks like myself, fine. But if they want to sell with the same reach as their Macs and iPhones, then they have to price them competitively for the hardware because they can't add enough value through the software side.
For me, an Apple Fan Boi with disposable cash, sure I have an Apple TV and HomePods. The integration into the Apple ecosystem is useful and the devices are immaterial purchases (especially when one considers that they last for years and years). If Apple is content selling just to folks like myself, fine. But if they want to sell with the same reach as their Macs and iPhones, then they have to price them competitively for the hardware because they can't add enough value through the software side.
Agreed. If the home pods were $79 starting and $149.99 for a premium device they would have substantially more market share in these product segments. But they don’t and they won’t because they don’t want to tarnish their brand image. But putting their products upon a golden pedestal is terrible marketing in my opinion. Like you I’ve been an apple fan boy since my first 733Mhz white iMac G4.
That device sucked me in at a time when Apple was just starting to be revived.
They had unique compelling products that could do things other devices wanted to do.
They had beautiful unique devices. And well all of that has pretty much vanished.
The new MacBook pros have a deadly flaw that apple has pushed and marketed as “ evolution “ but what they have really done is engineer guaranteed planned obsolescence.
If a single chip fails on any Mac motherboard it’s an ungodly replacement cost. They negate this will selling you over priced insurance plans and end support for the device basically when your apple care ends.
With them making devices like this it streamlines their supply chain and saves them billions of dollars.
But I’m turn will end up dumping more dead barley aged devices into land fills.
Don’t believe me. Go look on eBay at the amount of bricked devices locked to iCloud. The mass of devices barley a few years old people paid thousands of dollars for trying to sell their broken devices on eBay, hoping to recoup a fraction of the money they spent on the device originally. I won’t be buying into apple silicon. I have my iPhone, but it feels like my current 14PM with huge hole taken out of my screen is a gimmick.
Apple doesn’t do anything unique anymore. They offer less reliable devices with guaranteed obsolescence at extreme prices. Everything a Mac does a PC can do just as fast or faster. And it won’t become E Waste because components can be replaced or upgraded. And the PCs will still be fully functional devices 10 years from now. We’re JUST NOW seeing the push away from windows 7 and 8 being put into full force. Most new apps on the App Store have already began dropping support from just one OS past.
I flew to Australia to get this sweet yellow phone a day early.
I bet everyone on your flight back was so excited and happy for you 😁