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blastdoor said:

tht said:

mobird said:

What's up with the Mac Studio?

The hope is that Apple announces Mac Studios with M3 Max and M3 Ultra in June. If so, it's right on schedule for M4 versions in June of 2025.

There is speculation that Apple will have a discrete monolithic M3 Ultra chip with a silicon bridge to make a M3 Extreme consisting of 2 M3 Ultra chips. That would be interesting. If so, this could open up a MBP18 model or MBP16 with the M3 Ultra. Just not a lot of customers for a Mac Studio with Ultra or a Mac Pro with Ultra or Extreme.

If the next ultra is a single chip then I’ll bet it’s less than twice a max. Maybe 18 big CPU cores plus 4 little cores and 60 GPU cores.

but I could imagine Apple skipping the ultra for the m3 lineup and bringing it back for m4. 

paisleydisco said:

LOLOLOLOLOL 

the rich guy looking for a handout 

tht said:

In the case of the smartphone market? No, the USA should not be suing Apple.

I do think as Apple's iPhone marketshare goes up, they will have to change App Store rules, allow more types of apps, reduce App Store fees. What is equitable between Apple and developers changes depending Apple's position. People feel differently when Apple has 10%, 20%, 40%, 80% share. As Apple's share goes up, what was a fair deal to people and developers when they had 10% share will not feel equitable when Apple has 80%. There is an implied social contract between a company, its developers and customers as the company gets more and more dominant and monied. So, I think Apple needs to let more types of apps into the App Store, enable more types of use for smartphones, reduce fees, etc. 

It's not a single marketshare number. It's a gradation. The more marketshare, the more flexible they have to be.

I'm frankly surprised Apple has achieved an estimated 50 to 60% share given Apple's pricing structure. It's like the cost of smartphone hardware and software is low enough, and payments plans have made it very tolerable, such that Apple's intangibles are an easy upsell to consumers.

The cost of a cell phone service is a rather large majority of a cell phone ownership. It's like $1200 per year, and it rises every year. So, if the monthly bill is $100/mo, customers are much more accepting of a 30mo phone payment plan at $20 to $30 a month. If the costs for a cellphone was upfront, I have a hard time believing Apple would have more than 20% share in the USA.

One thing I like to note is that Apple and Samsung are 80% of the units in the USA. A good portion of those Samsung phones are Galaxy S20/S21/S22 etc. I don't know about other folks, by those Samsung phones look more like iPhones than ever. They use the same industrial design. So, at minimum, that really tells you the power of Apple's brand.

VictorMortimer said:

Fred257 said:

I’ve been following Apple since 1997. Apple Insider I have been following since 1998. Apple is going to be fined on this one. The lawyers for Apple have made the wrong decision 

And about time, too.  Apple is playing around, they're going to lose this.  They need to just open up the iPhone and iPad for apps installed from anywhere, it's time for this app store nonsense to end.

(Gave up and created a new account today, my old one won't log in and the password recovery won't work.  With how much the posts here have dropped I don't think I'm the only one who had that problem.)