Delegating production to new local producers who can customize the Apple form factor or interface?
For better or worse, the form factor that Apple chooses could be a key, well, factor in deciding how well the next iPhone performs.
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Um thinks that the reduced estimate mostly reflects lower demand for cover glass from non-iPad tablets, but with Apple a lesser factor.
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Second, Apple focused on cool form factor, favored by consumers, with the incorporation of full functionality.
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The big issue with iPhones of the same form factor is that Apple would then indicate a lack of listening as well as a lack of speaking.
More iPhones of the same form factor, a delayed Apple tv and a potential iWatch sometime, maybe even this year.
That's when the world's second-largest personal computer manufacturer, Dell, out to challenge Apple's "cool" factor, announced it was dropping its 800 ad agencies for one contract with WPP.
Cook was also questioned about whether Apple is losing its "cool factor, " with competitors such as Samsung and HTC getting good reviews for their new phones armed with cutting edge features and larger screens.
Similar to the recent difficulty of identifying the seven billionth human born on earth (that prize went to Danica May Camacho, a girl born in the Philippine capital of Manila, symbolically chosen by the UN to mark the global population milestone), it is understandable if Apple used location as an important factor in calculating their tiebreaks.
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Naturally, Apple's pushing the smaller form factor as a boon for those who adore ingesting text on digital screens, further advancing its iBook and education initiative that took center stage at its January keynote in New York City.
Rather than just being incrementally bigger in form, Apple could have introduced a radically different form factor.
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We trust Apple to deliver products with a cool design factor.
In truth, no one really knows if Apple plans to introduced a smaller form-factor iPad (Well, I assume Tim Cook knows, actually.) But if they do decide to jump into the market with an iPad Mini to complete with the Amazon Kindle Fire, the Google Nexus 7 and other smaller tablets, you can safely bet that they will sell a ton of them.
Apple could afford to keep the iPhone 5 form factor for another 12 months, but only if it maintains the iPhone 5 name.
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For someone trying to decide between buying an Apple or Android device, iTunes could be a deciding factor.
On the contrary, he says the X-Factor universe is populated by mold breakers like Apple, Google and Ryan Air, who have what it takes to stand out in an increasingly global and competitive environment.
Reitzes sees China as the key battleground for the larger form factor, not the USA, so how Apple and its rivals shape up outside America will be key to his idea that Apple stands to make a substanttial gain from a phablet.
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Regaining the cool factor will help reduce the negativity that is surrounding Apple.
The market has been flooded with tablets but Apple still sets the bar in terms of features, form factor and pricing.
Apple was unbeatable because of its mastery of the iPod form factor.
That cool factor propelled consumers to spend hundreds more for the Apple brand than they would for anything Dell or HP could manufacture.
The iPhone remains a growth engine for Apple and the phone's popularity in Asia was a factor behind the company's robust earnings for its most recent quarter.
The result: Max Wang, at Digitimes pointed out Friday that if you factor in count tablet computers, it looks like Apple may be poised to replace Hewlett-Packard as the top notebook vendor.
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Apple is not the first but Apple has historically perfected the user experience (read software) and form factor.
In terms of products, the iWatch could very well be the answer to a smaller form factor, cheaper iPhone product that Wall Street is looking for Apple to deliver.
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This is an important factor because, if the rumors are true, it seems that Apple might finally be willing to waver on quality.
During Apple's earnings call in January, CEO Tim Cook said Apple keeps its phone sizes relatively small because it believes that is the perfect form factor for most people.
But with competitors already bringing smaller tablet form factor products to market at more affordable prices, it seems likely that Apple will respond rather than sit on the sidelines as other companies look to beat it in a market that it helped create if not re-create.
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