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timmillea said:

I don't think Steve Jobs ever had a 'vision'. He started young and arrogant, believing in his superiority and ruthlessly exploiting the connections he had to make money. He got a little wiser with age and learned how to present himself better but he never lost his self-superiority or arrogance. Had he been an academic and shared his abilities at concept-level, his ideas would have been refined faster, improved and shared with the World for free, instead of just making money. He was a troubled individual made more extreme by his financial success. At least he used apple to bring us some great 'products' instead. 

Cook is the ultimate logistics man, shortly to retire, who brought us the monstrosity of the Mac Studio. He also ejected Steve Job's equal, Johny Ive. The trajectory for Apple currently looks irrecoverable. Burn-up. 

Damm you. I have to go find more money to spend now. (My strategy for decades has been that every time someone writes in public about how Apple is lame and useless and is clearly on the verge of crashing and burning - I try to buy Apple Stock.) Looking back it’s been a crazy good investment strategy. And here we go again!

In defense of AT&T — I suspect it’s WAY harder to actually roll out a whole wireless system than it is to roll out a tiny new logo.
/s

Call me weird, but as a 30 year media professional who has owned probably 50 mics over my career - from Neumann to AKG to Shure and beyond, here’s what I’d NEVER do— 
presume to comment on the quality, utility, or value of a device until I had actually tested it for myself.

Yeah, it might be all hype and not worth squat. And that wouldn’t shock me. 

OTOH, maybe it’s cracked some code for the  actual digital modeling of the sounds or pickup characteristics of why many of us had a closet full of mics in the first place. This condenser works well on throaty female voices. This one better on clear sopranos. This other one has a great bite used on an alto sax with medium compression. And this dynamic kills on a close mixed kick drum with a nasty SPL.

The point is that any microphones actual utility only gets revealed via actual use. And right now, this thing has none. So arguing about how good or lame it might be is kinda stupid, IMO. 

My 2 cents. 

darkvader said:

No thanks, not going to recommend anybody buy a laptop with built-in spyware.

That you equate targeted hash-matching of known child exploitation material done in conjunction with the Centers for Missing and Exploited Children — with “spyware” is pretty weird. 

If your goal is to primarily shoot video or stills for a job, and really want to maximize battery, step one should be turning off the phone section entirely. Switch to Airplane mode and notice how long your battery lasts when the phone no longer needs to constantly ping and reconnect to all the cel towers in typical urban settings. 
You should see a significant decrease in battery “draw down” until you turn your cel polling back on. Just a FWIW.