Daishi

Perhaps not, but the standard you set was about success not quality. Owning about two thirds of the market is definitely a success.

One of the funniest takes I’ve seen regarding the inevitable rise of Chromebooks was that having used them all the way through school there was going to be a whole generation of workers entering the market demanding that their new employers give them Chromebooks to work on.

So we’re just going to pretend that Chrome isn’t the run away dominant player in web browsers?

Probably on the cheque Google wrote to get them to make it in the first place.

This argument is really getting into ‘this is the year of the Linux desktop’ territory. How long have people been saying this now?

Is a single continental mass

By this definition Europe, Asia and Africa are all one continent.

Which part of suggesting that a reasonable use case for this would be watching the Olympic opening ceremony while scuba diving wasn’t a ‘blatant display of humour’?

It’s kind of remarkable how many of the people commenting have so clearly not read the article, because that was pretty clear.

lets face it, one and a half year from now you will be charging that ultra every day

Well I’m currently using a years old Apple Watch 4, that has to have done over a thousand battery cycles at this point, and despite its official 18 hour battery life (when new) I can usually go about 30 hours between charges.

no exclusive sells like COD does.

Which feels like a pretty good reason for Microsoft not to make it an exclusive even if they could.

Yes, as it is in any sensible country, but we’re accounting for that.

Ok, we’ll I’m in Australia. We’re an energy exporter, the government has spent a butt load keeping fuel costs down while global oil companies have been on their "making up for Covid" profit binge and we’re closer to China than the US is so shipping costs here should be lower.

But if you take $US1000 and convert it you get $AU1481. Add 10% goods and services tax and you’ve got $AU1629. Round up to the nearest unit of 50 and you’re at $AU1650. iPhone 14 Pro starting price $AU1750.

So, to steal girao’s line, where did the other 100 come from?

It’s just the perfectly normal tech industry Living Outsiders the United States Tax. If anything an 8% markup is pretty good, I pretty regularly see tech products (both hardware and software) going for 20-50% more than the US price here.

Besides, they’ve got to find those ever increasing corporate profits somewhere. If you can keep the official (read: US) price the same, but quietly jack it up for the other 95% of the world’s population, then we’ll get to reporting season next year and lo and behold iPhone revenues are up "without increasing prices". These guys are wizards!

Except that, as outlined, the markup here is after taking currency exchange into account.

I think my favourite thing about the iPhone 14 is that there is so little new about it that I can happily save some money and buy a 13 Mini without feeling like I’m missing out on anything.

Plus the probably figure they’ll make back a bit through Fitness+ subscriptions.

Whether that’s true of the people who will buy Ultras remains to be seen though