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I don't really have the issue of ghosting but actually the opposite. There are many times when I cannot pull down from the top or up from the bottom when on the watch face screen. So I can't see notifications, or quickly check rings or launch a specific app. I have to restart the watch and then everything works fine. My watch is a replacement from Apple under AppleCare+ but the old watch did this too. 

timpetus said:

Notably speedier unless you need to run Windows software that isn't compatible with Windows on ARM, in which case I guess the solution is switching to Windows or buying two laptops? I don't know for sure, but I'd bet that's a large portion of the Mac power users who are still using an Intel Mac. 

Unless they're using Bootcamp I doubt using Parallels is any faster on an Intel Mac versus an M series Mac. In my testing of Windows 11 in Parallels on an M1 MacBook Pro it was more than adequate. 

This reminds me of when Steve Ballmer first commented on the original iPhone and said it was overpriced and didn't appeal to business customers because it lacked a keyboard. As we all know, he was extremely wrong in the end and his very product (Windows Mobile) that was on top of the smartphone market along with Blackberry were put out of business by Apple. 

It will be interesting to see how AVP does in a couple of years once it's more mature. Will Zuck be eating his words just like Steve Ballmer had to? 

As a side note, it still to this day boggles my mind how CEO's of companies where Apple enters their space they've occupied for years just try and brush Apple off as inferior. Very rarely does Apple ever enter a new market and doesn't make a significant dent in that market. It may not always rise to the top but these companies better be paying attention and better start taking Apple seriously. How many times do these companies need to get their asses kicked by Apple entering their space to learn to take them seriously? Apple has nearly unlimited talent, unlimited funding and resources to make their products right. So while Rev A may not be up to par in certain areas, you can bet your ass Apple will go back, take what its learned from both issues in that may have arose and customer feedback to make the next revision of their product better. They also have tech that just wasn't ready for Rev A for one reason or another that they'll implement into future versions of AVP that will also make this product even better.  

Lastly, people will buy expensive products if they think they're worth the price. Apple has proved this time and time again with nearly its entire product line up. Apple has and never will compete on price. It just releases the best technology it can in the best package it can deliver. So if it's $3500 and the Quest is $350 well there's a reason why. Apple didn't just purposely jack up the price $3,000 more than the quest. Apple doesn't exactly seem to be having issues selling AVP. 

williamlondon said:

macxpress said:

Another YouTuber idiot doing stupid shit to get clicks/views. Video's like this are just cringe and not really entertaining to watch at all. They're not even informative either. 

Absolutely agree, but what's even sadder is the huge number of morons who disagree with you. Sigh.

Those are the very dipshits that feed YouTubers like them. I don't need a person to drop an Apple Product from 15 stories down to see how durable it is. Apple does its own testing and of course it's gonna be damaged in some fashion when you accidentally drop it or bang it against something. All these videos do is feed the keyboard warriors who hate everything Apple does so they can say how shit and overpriced Apple products are. This is what social media and society in general has come to unfortunately and it's very sad. I can't wait until this era is over and we move on to something else. 

DavidEsrati said:

Jony Ive is a stylist and ruined the MacBook Pro so he could make a case for his tiny toy- the MacBook Air.
The keyboards were useless, they ditched magsafe - you needed a dongle for everything.
Jony Ive leaving was the best move Apple could make.
Now if someone would talk some sense into Apple about getting serious about small business and return Apple Server- and fix Apple ID to work easily for corporate owned devices we might actually get somewhere.

There's no need for needing a server these days. Apple already has an AppleID solution for enterprise. It's called Apple Business Manager and they also have a lite MDM called Apple Business Essentials. With an MDM there's no reason to have a server at all really. If you need storage there are more than plenty of storage solutions out there that work great with Apple products. 

https://www.apple.com/business/enterprise/it/

https://www.apple.com/business/essentials/

Fortune500 companies all over the world use Apple Business Manager and an MDM solution such as Jamf to manage their Macs, iOS devices and AppleTV's. IBM for one is one of the largest major companies that use Macs in its environment using ABM and Jamf. They also use it for their iOS devices as well. 

You don't image a Mac anymore as it's all configured by MDM out of the box, or you restore it and let the MDM set it back up the way you want it. iOS devices are also setup automatically with the MDM, same goes for AppleTV's. There's no reason to do something like Netbooting, or QT streaming server, etc. There's just simply no reason to have macOS Server anymore.