Wowie woo.
A new iPhone with more features I’ll not use, with a screen technology copied from a competitor. Copying is not a really bad sin, but at least learn how to make it before you vend it. Not exactly very Apple.
Meanwhile, perhaps an audiophile level iPod, new ideas for processing, etc. might be of interest.
Gads, I miss Jobs.
Couple this with the fact that my purchases will be parsed out to the Slithering Puberty Lush Center, and I’m afraid I’m looking into getting out of the Apple house.
Yet here you are spreading your anti-Apple nonsense on a thread that could care less what you do or don't do.
If you check on the donor site at the SPLC web page under the heading of Apple Inc, you'll find in an asterisk below the listing stating that the donations do NOT come from Apple itself, but in fact come from individual Apple employees, the Apple Employees' Political Action Comittee, other PACs, and the employees' relatives. This includes the $1 million that Tim Cook donated personally, money that as usual the mainstream press reported as Apple donating. That would have required a full meeting of the Board of Directors, which did not occur, to vote to make a donation that had nothing to do with the charter of the company, and opened the board and officers up to a stockholders' suit for using company money for non-company purposes. In other words, Tim Cook donated his own personal funds, albeit earned due to his work at Apple, and pledged to match other Apple employees' own personal donations, up to another $1 million, again from his own funds. The Fake news purveyors did not report the full story. Cook can deduct personally these donations from his income taxes, Apple Inc. cannot; it's not a cost of doing business.
As for an audiophile iPod, those have been around for years, Da Coyote. The Apple lossless file system can reproduce sound with no loss from the finest recordings. . . You just need to hook it to an excellent set of earphones or a superb sound system. Several hi-end audio companies even manufacture their equipment around iOS devices to take advantage of that. You must have missed Apple's announcement of their intelligent speaker system in June, which audiophiles have been raving about. You can buy one, two, three, four, or any number, and they intelligently sense the space they are in, and adjust the sound for the best interaction and quality for the listener. Each knows the location of the other interactively and the other objects in the room, as well as the room size and shape, and sound qualities of the walls and objects, and adjusts accordingly.
New ideas for processing: the new iPhone X has a newly designed by Apple has a six core processor with four high-speed cores which are 70% faster than the processors in Apple's iPad Pro, and two energy efficient cores for tasks that don't require speed, but even these are 25% faster! This CPU can do 600 Billion operations per second. . . in a phone. Then add a three core Graphics Processing Unit that's 30% faster than the fastest one on the market, the one in the iPad Pro. . . and do it while adding two more hours of battery usage.
As for "copying" the OLED screen from a competitor. Balderdash! Have you seen the color gamut specifications of Apple's OLED screen? I have. No competitor come close to what Apple is achieving with their screen, with its contrast, white balance and adherence to the correct color for proper professional color reproduction. They aren't going for the super-saturated colors the Android platform OLED phones go for, but rather for color accuracy. It's that precision and requirements for accuracy that has been holding up the mass production of these quality screens in sufficient numbers to allow the iPhone X to roll out in September.
You may not use these features, but a lot of people will.