Less than $134 million if the article is correct in saying that Apple accounts for less than 5% of ARM’s revenue.

The kid is just confused. He’s 10. Give him a break on this. He’s thinking the emoji that best represents him, the only one with glasses, shouldn’t be an image he thinks is negative. However, the yellow face emoji set isn’t supposed to represent identities as opposed to emotion. The Unicode Nerd Face is supposed to be nerdy. Making a yellow face emoji with glasses wouldn’t express any emotion.

There are person emojis but those tend to be roles, expressions, activities or really generic. I suppose these could be opened to more identities to include glasses, punk, goth, pierced, scared, dimples, etc… but Apple already addressed this with Memojis.

That wouldn’t help with people who already have the lid open nor would it solve the issue of confirmation for Apple Pay and others. It also wouldn’t be a solution for the mini, Studio, PowerMac or iMac.

Further, it doesn’t solve the hardware issue of the component being too thick for the lid nor does it solve the main issue for why the iPhone went with Face ID.

I don’t know about their phone support… I hate talking to support over the phone, but their iMessage support was stellar.

Face ID on Macs faces multiple problems:

1. Hardware: The components required are thicker than the display side of a MacBook. Someone commented about the Studio Display (and likewise the iMac), but that’s enabling Face ID just for a fraction of Macs (and could potentially limit future design).
2. Requires additional physical input anyway: On the iPhone, you swipe up to unlock. The Mac could just accept the spacebar as input, but it’s still a secondary action meaning Face ID is “press here instead of touch there”. It also means that for Apple Pay or anything else requiring confirmation, you’d need someway of confirming (click here instead of touch there).
3. It’s not solving the problem that the iPone had: Face ID on the iPhone enabled the iPhone to get rid of the Home button which greatly increased the amount of the display area. It wouldn’t do that on the Mac. Really the only thing it’s doing is allowing some other physical action (press the space bar or click a confirmation button) instead of touching the power button.

I agree, but there’s a slight issue… Those apps are front ends to API “kits”, for example MusicKit exists as an API that many other apps utilize. Apple upgrades the Music app because it’s upgrading MusicKit in the OS.

The spirit of what you want though is still achievable…

MusicKit is still something Apple upgrades as they have been, but the Music app should be required to be downloaded. They could have a Music icon which then takes you to a page allowing you to choose from a list of music apps. Once this is done the first time, it should just carry over to a new iOS or iPhone.

Additionally, 3rd party apps which utilize the MusicKit API in a new beta OS should be allowed to install beta versions of their apps by detecting that a beta OS has been installed.

Wow, you really don’t deserve the downvotes here. I mean, I totally disagree with you, but the questions are worth addressing…

Apple has really only branded one anniversary product, the Macintosh, which was a flop (for a variety of reasons). I tried to find my previous comment on this, but I doubted there would be an iPhone X and about a year later went back to admit I was wrong, so I could be wrong again, but I was wrong about the branding, not the concept.

With the iPhone X, I believe, the development of the device came before the branding. The branding was an afterthought and not really accurate. The iPhone X was the 14th released iPhone and was announced 10.5 years after the original iPhone was released and even longer after the original announcement.

It seems like Apple wanted to transition the iPhone to FaceID and provide a mostly display front side, but knowing this could face resistance decided to release two iPhone lines (the 8, 8 Plus and the X) , with one continuing the old form and one representing where Apple wanted to go. Think X in terms of eXperimental as opposed to 10.

I really don’t think development followed branding, as the goal of Apple is to develop against the competition year after year. Every incremental improvement translates into billions of dollars as consumers choose iPhone over Android, so they don’t hold things back, nor are they motivated by “it’s the 10-ish anniversary”.

The Apple Watch already had its eXperimental transition with the Ultra. It looks like people are going to split between the two and both will be maintained moving forward.

More importantly, the Ultra didn’t obsolete bands.

Band specs have slightly changed over the years, and I believe they will continue to do so. Apple may at some point find some technical reason to make a major change but it will be due to something like sensors or other functionality and not just to accommodate a different aesthetic design and certainly not to do so because of a 10-ish anniversary.

To be clear, Apple may call it the Series X and it may coincide with an upgrade that is more significant than what we’ve seen in the past couple of years (that isn’t hard to do), but it won’t be as significant as the Ultra and if they do an “anniversary edition” it’s going to be something like a ceramic version of the S10 or some other jewelry-like premium edition.

I won’t be upset, but I don’t think that will happen. I also don’t think there will be an “Apple Watch X” as opposed to an S10 and Ultra 3.

As much as I don’t like the Action Button, I’d still rather have the larger display, better processor, increased RAM, faster USB-C, larger capacity, and better camera for my needs.

My problem with the Action Button is that there’s nothing I find it useable for that isn’t either already in, or should be in, the Control Panel. Meanwhile, its placement interferes with the volume buttons.

I swam every day for a year with my Ultra. I went scuba diving multiple times, including going past 100’. I swam from Alcatraz twice and have done Ironmans in the rain with it. I’ve been to water parks and pretty much every water sport including jet skiing, water skiing, and surfing.

I really wouldn’t worry about it unless you’ve done some serious impact damage to it. I damaged mine in bike crash and traded it in for an Ultra 2, but even with the damage, I was still heavily swimming with it with no issues.

As someone else pointed out, the water lock only keeps the screen from accidental touch input and then ejects water from the speaker afterwards.

I wish it didn’t exist, or at least wasn’t next to the volume buttons.

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