Thread regarding Apple Inc. layoffs

What people care about

A quarter of smartphone owners (25%) don't find AI features helpful, 45% are reluctant to pay a monthly subscription fee for AI capabilities and 34% have privacy concerns.
A little over half (52%) of smartphone owners have no interest in purchasing a foldable phone.
The biggest motivation for US adult smartphone owners to upgrade their devices is longer battery life (61%), followed by more storage (46%) and better camera features (38%). Just 18% say their main motivator is AI integrations.

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Post ID: @OP+1va8boIS

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Guessing the tariffs aren't going to help the price situation at all. Kissing the King's ring didn't have the intended result. Instead, it just left a bad taste in the mouth.

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Post ID: @es5+1va8boIS

Something else people care about: the price of upgrades from base models:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0pHSz4wyaw

Personally, I've been debating purchase of another Apple system but that is losing to investment in an AMD x86-64 system based on the upgrade (future-proofing) costs for Apple.

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Post ID: @tcsh+1va8boIS

Here's something that people care about - Apple's unreliable partners and sub-contractors. Apple should address this issue before it sullies the Apple name and reputation any further:

https://www.google.com/search?q=problems+with+apple+courier+deliveries

https://www.reddit.com/r/UberEATS/comments/1gj49ex/apple_courier_uber_may_have_stolen_2_macbooks_i/

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Post ID: @msam+1va8boIS

Source?

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