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Apple employees skeptical about next device to replace iPhone
The Cupertino-based company is expected to introduce an augmented reality headset in a few months. However, some employees question whether the device makes sense for Apple.
When Apple unveiled its augmented reality headset about five years ago, Jonathan Paul “Jony” Ive, the former chief designer, impressed an audience of 100 of the company’s top executives with a concept video. In the video, a man in a London taxi, who was wearing an augmented reality headset, called his wife in San Francisco.
But now, as the company prepares to unveil the headset in June, enthusiasm for Apple has given way to skepticism, as eight current and former Apple employees, who wished to remain anonymous, said at once. There are concerns about the device’s price of around $3,000 and doubts about its usefulness.
Some employees left the project due to doubts about its potential, as described by three people familiar with the progress of work. Others were fired due to lack of progress on some aspects of the headset, including the use of Apple’s Siri voice assistant.
Even Apple executives have doubts about the product’s prospects. It was developed at a time when morale was undermined by a wave of departures from the company’s design team, including Quince himself, who left Apple in 2019 and stopped consulting with the company last year.
An Apple spokesperson declined to comment on the company’s plans for future products.
Back in 2021, Tim Cook said that the headset should replace the iPhone in the next ten years. The famous analyst Ming-Chi Kuo made the same statement.
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“Extremely rare high performance and high quality LCD smartphone.” An insider published live photos of Redmi Note12T Pro
Not long after the official premiere and the simultaneous start of sales of the Redmi Note 12T Pro smartphone, the well-known insider Digital Chat Station published live photos of the novelty.
“Extremely rare high performance and high quality LCD smartphone”, – wrote Digital Chat Station and added that the cost of a smartphone built on SoC MediaTek Dimensity 8200-Ultra has finally dropped to 1,500 yuan (for the basic version of the device in China they ask for $ 225).
On the frames, you can note the screen frame of decent size – Xiaomi was clearly not going to focus on the appearance, instead, the company tried to make the device as cheap as possible.
Recall that Redmi Note 12T Pro received a high-quality IPS display with a diagonal of 6.6 inches, Full HD + resolution and a frame rate of 144 Hz, a camera with sensors with a resolution of 64, 8 and 2 MP, a 5080 mAh battery with support for fast charging with a power of 67 W .
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King Kong 9 comes out in June. This is a rugged smartphone from Cubot with a 10,600 mAh battery, a 100-megapixel camera and two screens.
Cubot today officially announced that a new smartphone called King Kong 9 will be released in China on June 7. It will be a rugged model with a very large battery.
“King Kong 9” will be built on SoC MediaTek Helio G99. He will receive a 32-megapixel front camera and a main one with sensors with a resolution of 108 and 5 megapixels. Also, the device will receive an infrared camera.
The battery capacity of the smartphone will be 10,600 mAh, it will support 32 W wired charging. A feature of the external design will be the presence of two screens – along with the usual small round screen, resembling a watch dial, will be placed on the rear panel.
Despite the fact that the smartphone market as a whole continues to decline, the segment of expensive models is growing. According to Canalys, in the first quarter of this year, sales of smartphones with a price of $ 500 grew by 4.7%, while the overall market sank by 13.3%.
As a result, premium devices accounted for 31% of all smartphone sales, and it seems that this is the best-selling segment at the moment!
And dominates in this segment, of course, Apple. In the list of best-selling smartphones priced at $500 and above, the first four places are occupied by the iPhone, with the iPhone 14 Pro Max at the top. Fourth place was taken by the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, the fifth was the iPhone 14 Plus, followed by the Galaxy S23, and behind it, curiously, the iPhone 12. Moreover, the iPhone SE is also on the list, and of the devices from other manufacturers, there are only Xiaomi 13 and Huawei Mate 50.
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