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Post by Since84 on Apr 9, 2019 2:17:32 GMT -8
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Post by benoir on Apr 9, 2019 6:19:02 GMT -8
Confidently over 200 @ +202 Nice little pop
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Post by Ted on Apr 9, 2019 7:12:49 GMT -8
Apple was relatively slow to jump into the smart speaker market, and, when it did, it chose to create a product with differentiation but also a high price aimed more at a niche market. Apple has sold a couple million Homepods, while first mover Amazon has sold 100 million Alexa units, I read. Now Amazon and Samsung are gunning for AirPods, but here Apple is way out in front. I see many dozens of people everyday here in Berkeley wearing AirPods, mostly young Cal students. I hope Apple has the determination and execution to stay ahead of the pack in wearables and won’t squander its early lead (and will make Amazon look as foolish as it did with Fire phones.)
Will Apple ever make an inexpensive SiriPod to compete with Goog and Amzn?
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Post by benoir on Apr 9, 2019 7:19:07 GMT -8
Cult of Mac has this upbeat piece on the possibility of aapl achieving 10 straight days of gains today. Brief but positive..weeee
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Post by chinacat on Apr 9, 2019 7:35:59 GMT -8
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Post by Since84 on Apr 9, 2019 7:42:20 GMT -8
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Post by ems on Apr 9, 2019 8:11:37 GMT -8
I think Apple set a high bar with the HomePod. It's far better hardware than anything the competition has. What it needs is software/firmware improvement, which hopefully will come (eventually?) with more Siri integrations and extensions to make it more flexible and useful. Opening the ecosystem of HomePod to more sources would be nice too (like a line-in jack for example),maybe in a future hardware revision. I'd love to have a pair but until it's more flexible, I'll hold off. Airpods are a solid product and nice example of leadership from Apple, and I expect those will continue to improve as well.
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Post by rmhe1999 on Apr 9, 2019 10:09:24 GMT -8
Jeez, they had to go and jinx it, didn't they?!?
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Post by chinacat on Apr 9, 2019 10:28:01 GMT -8
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Post by deasys on Apr 9, 2019 11:38:20 GMT -8
Pretty good article but it ended with a misstatement, i.e. "Apple decided to shelve its product at the last minute before shipping it, after more than 2 years in development. Something that I’m sure would not have happened under Steve Jobs." Hmm…the myth building continues… That fact is that even Jobs made promises the company was not able to keep, e.g. the hoped-for PowerPC clock rate increase to 3 GHz: www.macworld.com/article/1035537/liveupdate.html"Jobs talked about Apple's recently introduced speed bump to its Power Mac G5 line, bringing the systems up to 2.5GHz. At last year's WWDC, Jobs promised to have 3GHz systems available within a year. The PowerPC 970 architecture is a complicated chip, explained Jobs, and the semiconductor industry 'hit the wall' when it transitioned to a 90 nanometer manufacturing process, he said. 'IBM has done very well relative to the rest of the industry, but less than we'd hoped,' said Jobs. '... We think the Power Mac is an incredibly high performance system and we'll keep striving for 3GHz.'"The latter never happened and by 2006, Apple had switched to Intel processors.
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Post by ems on Apr 9, 2019 13:08:42 GMT -8
I think the more shocking thing is that there was something on Forbes that wasn't clickbait trash.
And yeah, they frigging jinxed it for some reason. Why the downturn midday? Things were nice a $202.xx I didn't see any news/reason as to why it would suddenly slump like that. Ah well.
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Post by benoir on Apr 9, 2019 18:35:49 GMT -8
I think the more shocking thing is that there was something on Forbes that wasn't clickbait trash. And yeah, they frigging jinxed it for some reason. Why the downturn midday? Things were nice a $202.xx I didn't see any news/reason as to why it would suddenly slump like that. Ah well. 'PoOOOFFF' .... good feeling gone
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