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Chinese Dutch boy Taiwanin the middle of two big countries big bullies……. kinda like ASML on the other side of the world.,

Meanwhile on the other side of the world China keeps building infrastructure BYD will be selling everywhere else in the world aside from the US and Europe?

https://x.com/taylorogan/status/1859146242519167249  BYD factory addition, the genie is out of the bottle and the bull is out of the barn and down the road.

https://electrek.co/2024/11/25/byd-confirms-next-gen-blade-ev-battery-coming-with-more-range/  Another more efficient battery type coming up?

DaveyDaveDave said:

"Storage starts at 256GB"
Pathetic base storage, as usual.
Apple really needs to be more competitive at this base level.

it isn’t for you Apple offers 256GB because many people are on a tight budget a here and now budget…..

Fidonet127 said:

oddly, I don't see the usual people saying Apple needs to give up on such a useless product as AVP.

Those same people also said Apple should stay married to Intel forever, and these days, they also say Apple should never make a server or do any long-term projects everything has to be instantaneous like winning the lottery.

Wall Street was completely unaware, but I have a prediction. The M4 Mac mini (Studio) is poised to become a surprising and significant sales success for Apple. It might just be the computer of the year. The initial enthusiasm for this computer appears to be unprecedented, as it seems to be striking a perfect balance between value and performance. The usual jaded tech forums were shockingly enthusiastic.

If this new chip can be used in all the current devices that Apple makes laptops, Mac Studios without delay no problem, if it can’t or if there is a delay for example, the Mac Studio M4 Ultra isn’t coming in 2025 that is a problem. I am glad however the writing is on the wall, Apple needs to roll up it sleeves and make a in house server using Apple Silicon which has too many good characteristics to leave on the sideline.

Oh, and separating the memory from CPU/GPU appears to be a step backwards to UMA, whatever AMD is pursuing right now it isn’t better than Apple Silicon when it comes to wattage used efficiency and performance, yes they (AMD) are closer than Intel but Nvidia is just completely out of the ballpark when it comes to energy wasted, yes it’s faster for certain tasks now but 1000-1500 watts liquid cooled systems are an eventual dead end which Apple used at one time when they were at the heights of their G5 hell.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/why-nvidia-rtx-4090s-are-melting/ butterfly keyboards, antenna gate, bend gate, power button location, or upside down mice are nothing to this….. I don’t think Apple will go away from power efficiency. 

foregoneconclusion said:

North Korea exists as it does because a decision was made during the Korean War, when the US interfered in another country’s affairs that it wanted to exclude itself from further interference.  This seems entirely reasonable to me. 

FYI: North Korea has troops fighting for Russia in Ukraine. 

And there’s a Bromance between the newly elected president and Putin FYI…..

The Korean war was, a precursor to the Vietnam fiasco and every other failed foreign War that came after, what’s interesting out of all of the excursions (Wars) the Ukrainians are one of the few that actually want to fight for themselves. And half of the current Republicans don’t want to help.

At this point, I hope Apple will finally take action and introduce a two-year upgrade cycle for the Mac Studio and Mac Pro, especially considering the significant cost involved. The uncertainty surrounding their release cycles has been excessive for potential buyers.

Apple Silicon enables Apple to redesign the Mac Pro tower, making it more compact and efficient. A design that reduces the current Mac Pro tower’s size by at least a third would be nice. For instance, a size of (15.4 in x 3.7 in) would be suitable, and coincidentally happens to be the size of two Mac Studios turned 90° and stacked on top of each other.

In any case, hopefully the new design will be something that they can live with and iterate over the course of time. Apple has to eliminate the uncertainty of the release dates for their higher end desktop machines they simply cost too much.

Blah blah blah the same report every year multiple times, And Samsung‘s presence in China is a big fat zero when it comes to smart phones.

Or maybe wait for the quarter earnings report to see what really happened? During the Christmas season?

entropys said:

xyzzy01 said:

entropys said:

I would never think to use AppleCare for replacing destroyed goods due to a fire.
that is what insurance is for. 

And as to the difficulty to get insurance in California, most of that is actually regulatory.  

(Disclosure, work in a national disaster department, not USA but same sort of issues).

Could you explain? Is it because companies are not allowed to charge a rate corresponding to the risk in these areas?

Yes. So they no longer offer a product. But also the way the FAIR policy was set up. And that California even has a “Department of Insurance”. It’s becoming the California Socialist Republic, with the inevitable consequences.

Housing, affordability, and homeowner insurance availability is and has become a nationwide USA problem in recent years and the way things are going it isn’t getting any better. The only positive thing about these recent fires is that it’s not statewide all at once like having a couple of hurricanes blowing thru within three weeks of each other like the red states of America I guess FEMA will be around for a little bit longer Mr. Orange?

The housing market isn’t going away even though it’s limping along the federal government and all 50 states will do something (“socialist” government action) even though as usual they will fall short and be late to the party.