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What a whiny little jealous boy....

I adore my iPhone SE and will wait until a new one is released with the same form factor and new internals. I don’t care about price. I don’t want or need a BIG phone or truck to justify my masculinity:)

Omg gimme a break....as if they’ve got the business experience to make that recommendation. Most of us are honestly so blessed and lucky to even have Apple as an investor and American. Just Zip it and write some good laws.

Chris_Pelham said:

I don't really need the MacBook Pro to be less bulky per se, and not at the expense of the speakers or functionality, but weight reductions are always welcome. The current MacBook Air is a dream for what it is. I'm always surprised by how light it feels. The only improvement I'd reasonably ask for is another Thunderbolt port on the other side for extra convenience.

There is nothing “AIR” about the current MacBook Air. They’ve stopped printing MacBook Air below the screen. It will become just a “MacBook” and true AIRs will be released within 24 months. They will weigh around the 2 lb mark and restore “Air” to the product line. You heard it here first.

There are many of us that simply don't give a shit about the price and just want a small form factor phone. Apple knows this. I will simply continue to use my iPhone SE until it dies. If a new iPhoneSE is launched, I will buy it; if not, well then I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. But come hell or high water I won't be buying one of the new ones. Big phones are like big trucks, and I don't need one to justify my manliness.

It will be more dangerous for the thief than for me:)

Great breakdown. Thank you Kellie. At the end of the day, you gotta be careful who you marry. Even only as an enduser at this point in my life, I wouldn't own anything with Microsoft as a partner. Those days are LONG GONE. Much less run a billion dollar business. This might actually be an incredible tipping point for the corporate business market to move away from Windows.



kellie said:

The primary cause of the outage was due to Crowdstrike shipping a faulty malware template that either wasn’t tested or was accidentally shipped out unknowingly 

the secondary cause is every Crowdstrike customer who blindly allowed the update to occur without doing their own testing and validation.  Sure it would be nice to totally trust the vendor, but they don’t suffer the consequences.  

The third cause of the failure was Microsoft allowing Crowdstrike to run in kernel mode.  So when Crowdstrike choked, it brought down each and every PC. A simple reboot would not fix the problem.  

The fourth cause of the problem is EU regulators who told Microsoft that if they were going to force applications vendors to use a Microsoft API to access the kernel, that would be considered anti-competitive. So Microsoft had no choice but to allow Crowdstrike unprotected access to the kernel.  Apple is allowed to control access to its kernel. 

The Delta CEO is criticizing Microsoft purely to try and squeeze money out of Microsoft.  The CEO is clueless about Windows vs Mac.  He’s just trying to shake down Microsoft. The Delta CEO needs to ask the Delta CIO why he allowed Crowdstrike updates to occur without validation and testing.  Trust but verify as Ronald Regan used to say about the Russians. 

This isn't just about saving a buck and it usually isn't the primary factor for Apple for why they would bring this "in house". It is because the modems that Qualcomm makes aren't good enough for the iPhone and its siblings. Ever notice how long it takes to disconnect and then connect from the WiFi network? Apple does things with excellence, other companies not so much. Expect the best here, because Apple designs things for VERY SPECIFIC PURPOSES, unlike the competition who designs things for "general purposes". Don't think for a second that these modems will only save money, they will work a heck of a lot better. They wouldn't have spent billions of dollars just to save billons of dollars, they do it because they can do it better. The money savings is just a byproduct of their standard of excellence in design and manufacturing.

This might be a whole new air. If you'll notice carefully, they are not engraving "MacBookAir" on the bottom of the MBA's anymore. I believe the MBA's will become simply MacBooks and an entire new generation of truly lightweight MBA's will be born.

And we can't wait for that day:). Steve Jobs will resurrect from the dead and we'll have a big party:)