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.

Add me to list of people who don’t understand not having a case. For me it’s not about the cost of repair, as much as it is the increased usability (grip and slip protection) and not having to worry about having a broken phone (especially when traveling).

The case covering up the iPhone? Yeah, hey… look at me… I have something that literally a billion other people have!

Certainly Apple is saving money from not including the accessories. They’re also making money from selling accessories for those who need them. However, there’s still a positive environmental impact because not everyone is buying accessories and are either using ones they already have or using alternatives.

Further, Apple can ship time-insensitive accessories via cargo ship which is far more efficient than the way they ship time-sensitive iPhones via air.

Personally, I always hated getting the accessories because I not only already had them, but preferred to use alternatives. It was just wasteful for people like me. For anyone else, they just have to look at it as the iPhone costing what it does plus the cost of the accessories they need to buy and make their decision accordingly as to whether they want to do that or buy an Android or whatever.

I just don’t understand the “don’t let people buy a la carte, force everyone to buy a bundle of stuff they may not need” mentality.