XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.ipad   
   From: arlenholder@nospam.net   
      
   On 6 Sep 2018 15:40:17 GMT, John McWilliams wrote:   
      
   > Even if your premise on p-to-p is correct, your conclusion is not.   
   >   
   > The iPhone has never been about what you apparently think important. So   
   > your premise holds true for you, but not the millions of iPhone users in   
   > California   
      
   You, John McWilliams, seem generally well educated and an adult in   
   discourse.   
      
   Hence, I will presume that you comprehend my point, which is that Apple   
   MARKETING is one of the finest in the world at KNOWING what their   
   admittedly extremely loyal customer base cares about.   
      
   Let's be brutally blunt.   
   * It's not app functionality   
   * It's not price to performance   
      
   The reason we know it's not those things is that we've proven time and   
   again that an iPhone owner gets none of those two things, except in the   
   corner case of the walled garden, where the Apple owner feels that they get   
   walled-garden support (which, to a degree, is arguably a boon to users who   
   feel the need to be rigidly encased on a walled garden in the first place).   
      
   So what does the Apple customer care about then, if it's not functionality?   
   Only Apple MARKETING knows for sure, which is why the Sept 12 will tell.   
      
   What will Apple promote on September 12th for the iPhones?   
   We shall see.   
      
   *I predict Apple will promote utterly senseless things such as "colors".*   
      
   If they do promote, high on the list, absolutely insanely childish things   
   such as colors, then that simply means that Apple MARKETING feels that   
   silly childish things like "colors" are, somehow, important to iOS owners.   
      
   If so, how could anyone intelligent possibly argue that "stylish colors"   
   are even remotely meaningful in terms of the two things that matter most to   
   non-childish sensible intelligently logical adults:   
   a. App functionality, and,   
   b. Price to performance.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)