Siri? I didn’t think it was live in developer previews yet?

The earnings report was not bad. It was down compared to an unusual bump post Covid. But they are back on a normal trajectory. I’m holding.

It’s a version 1 product that mainly exists for developers. It is expensive. Sales were always going to be slow. Hopefully in the future manufacturing develops that allows a much cheaper and improved version, while developers create great new uses for the tech.

Small companies will not move unless a third store really takes off. It is the big apps that everyone wants that will have the market power to move. Like Facebook, Instagram, Google Chrome, Microsoft, possibly Adobe, and all the streaming apps like Netflix.

This is exactly what will happen. Every app with a large user base will move. Want to easily cancel a subscription? Good luck. Want to stop tracking? Have fun with that.

I do not want third party app stores.

When users have to Google for apps instead of searching the App Store, it’s time to burn it down and start over.

Maybe, but why. Apple has multiple ways to do this seamlessly. You can restore from an iCloud backup or do the wireless device transfer (that always fails for me with nearly 40k images).

Next spring so they sell through over the holidays.

They turn off iMessage in Europe. Or have argue it’s ability to fall back to SMS meets this. Or the industry invents a protocol that they all use and iMessage gets a new colored bubble.

People in each country used whatever everyone else is using. In the US that became text/iMessage. This was partially driven by the way cell companies charged in the US with free texts but limits on data (iMessage uses data, but it came later).

In other countries the better at the time options won out. We talk to our friends in Europe and Africa with WhatsApp.

iPhones have Adblock, but it is not obvious how to install it.

Is there a Mastodon alternative?

I can’t help with model, but seeing HR at a glance is a game changer. Tracking workouts is what I ended up using it for the most. Well, and checking the time, using as a camera remote, and notifications.

Keep using it until it no longer serves her needs. Then buy a MacBook Air (evidently not a power user).

Also, what 2012 pc laptop would still be usable in 2023?

The big differences are the screen and cameras. I get the pro because I love taking pictures and phone cameras are still so limited that any advantage at all is worth the price difference. Some people go pro for the slightly nicer screen.

But both will still easily last 3+ years. Future proofing is not a valid reason to go pro.

They almost always include a new band in watch launches. The real news would be not doing so.

Smartphone sales in general are down. It has hit apple somewhat and devastated Android sales. Likely a result of the K shaped recovery (middle class and wealthy better off, poor worse off).

But there is also a huge pent up demand for the USB-C iPhone. I put off upgrading my 11 for it.

Apple is working on 16 in the labs, as 15 is already in production.

Agree, title does not make sense. It supposedly uses a periscope lens. Is that an inch long? Is the cutout a full inch?

I can’t show it to my family? That is the first thing I would want to do!