StationGrey

I wouldn't buy a car unless it has wireless CarPlay. I actually own a 2011 car that I love, and recently spent £1000 having CarPlay fitted.

I have this discussion regularly with a Tesla-owning friend, and he argues that Tesla provide all the apps you could need instead. And that would be absolutely fine, except of course they don't.

'How do I play my music on Deezer?' I ask.

'Oh. Well it has Spotify.'

'Well I have Deezer.'

'Can't you change music providers to match Elon Musk's whims?'

'No. But I also listen to audiobooks. I assume the Audible app is good?'

'Ah. It doesn't have that either. All you need to do in either case is just buy a phone mount that sticks to the windscreen, pair your phone with Bluetooth and generally pretend it's 2009.'

Ah, Tesla. The least up-to-date tech in any car available today.

Skeptical said:

No feeding the poor from these guys. I’m all for having the super-duper-puper yachts but how about throwing more than a bone to the masses. For shits and grins, Bozos, er I mean Bezos could easily give a cool $500K to every man, woman, and child living below the poverty line and he’d still have deep pockets. 

I agree with the sentiment but your maths might need some tweaking! Even taking the the current modest estimate of poverty, $500k per person would equate to 1,600 trillion, or 40x the money in the world.

fastasleep said:

StationGrey said:

So... there won't be a 27" iMac at all?? 

I was wondering about that — I think they killed it in favor of the Studio.

I'm not 100% sure what I feel about that. I've had 27" iMacs for the last, er, *counts fingers*, 10 or so years and was waiting for the new one.

I think it's a huge shame that they're planning to position the Max model as the premium one with better features other than size.

I'd like the best camera available but have no interest in being upsold some gigantophone that I can't hold. Frankly, I'd still prefer a 'Mini' sized 15 Pro, but they hobbled that from the beginning with lower specs and, unsurprisingly, nobody bought them.

I've had an 11 Pro for 4 years now and looks like I'll have to wait another year if I'm to be allowed to buy a flagship device in a vaguely reasonable size. Unless they do the same next year and stop me buying again.

smaffei said:

So, Google tackles a market that Apple continually chooses to ignore. The sub $500 phone demand (that's growing).

I hope the Pixel 3a sells well. If it does, we'll probably see an iPhone SE 2. Apple being reactionary and not visionary anymore.

Apart from the $449 iPhone 7 that Apple sells of course...

apple4thewin said:

To be honest not many people (at least the people i know) use any form of carplay. Only recent cars have came around to it and it will probably take another 5 years for it to go mainstream when people finally upgrade their cars

I don't think you can accurately represent 'many people'.

CarPlay has been around since 2014, that's 9 years! No, not everyone has a new car, or even one less than 9 years old, but many millions of people do. I think it's probably mainstream by now.

I'm not saying they deserve it, but maybe if they had used versioning numbers properly they wouldn't be in this mess

Madbum said:

The EU is a Un -elected group of bureaucrats

but they act like communists  

Neither is true, but thanks for your contribution.

I've just received my T9 and am a little disappointed.

When I first tested out of the box (on MBP M1 Max), I got about 1600Mb/s, which is good but not 2000.

However, that was still formatted as ExFAT. I reformatted to APFS and got 950Mb/s instead. Hmmm....

I went back to ExFat and then tried to move my Apple Photos library to it, but it told me I couldn't then sync to iCloud from here as it wasn't APFS or HFS. So had to go back to APFS and again seeing 950.

Maybe I should've saved some money and just bought a T7.