I wonder if sales will be as successful as usual for this new device. I feel that we’re starting to really hit peak phone, where the only things to improve over time are minor components the average consumer doesn’t really care too much about.
I wonder if we’ll ever see a MacBook-like refresh cycle for iPhone’s. Still the year-on-yeah without the number, but a 3-5 year full refresh cycle.
> no customer wants to use any company's half-assed bug-riddled purchase or subscription system
They have this brilliant Apple Pay workflow that's almost completely unused in IAP — it bothered me that we couldn't just use Apple Pay to purchase a Spotify subscription directly in-app. Perhaps soon we'll see this.
This is one of the things that's been worrying me for a while. I worry that Australia's experiencing its last bubble. Germany is somewhere I want to settle down, but it's so hard to up and lift your whole life somewhere with so much uncertainty.
To the point of the post, though — I'm not so worried about surveillance in Australia. The bigger worry for me is the lack of our population's interest in real issues. When the level of surveillance does become a real issue, will our population even care?