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elijahg said:

I notice the price is the same as before, so rather than dropping the price due to cheaper CPU and increasing accessibility for people, they're just absorbing the extra profit. Great, that's the Cook Way. ߙ䦬t;/div>

You aren’t buying a collection of parts, your buying functionality.

Elon really had the temerity to use the phrase "walled garden"?!?!

$700 vs. $1600 repair - and hopefully Tesla doesn't screw the guy by blacklisting him from the supercharger network: 


What a farce.  They can't even get body panels to match, interior trim properly secured - windshields that don't leak.  Ha!  Apple at least has excellent fit and finish!  They may share same shitty right to repair issues but at least the vast majority of Apple stuff is well under $10K - nothing like getting hosed on $50K plus cars!

What an odd segmentation of a service.  I see this driving more people away from the Homepod, not towards it.  

Not a good trend either. 

StrangeDays said:

Using a regular USBC-HDMI cable is not a dongle. It’s just using a cable, as we have used various IO cables for decades. 

Semantics - whatever you want to call it, it's another *thing* you have to remember to have with you, not leave behind, find out one day it suddenly has some problem and needs to be replaced (while you are stuck without functionality in the meantime), etc.

Whatever your choice of pedantry, in the end it equals more friction for every day use.  For what?  A port on the side of the machine that offends someones sensibilities?  How utterly ridiculous.  Thankfully the likes of you LOST the argument and saner heads prevailed.

EDIT: Ha - just realized who I replied to.  What a shock; the king of pedantic nit pickers.  

Sweeny is indeed an Epic ass (nice!).  He is also mostly correct.  I was listening to the guys on the Apple Insider podcast talk about this and it suddenly dawned on me - the core issue here is trust - or a lack of.  

Apple treats every developer as if they are hostile.

Seriously?  Rouge Amoeba, who has been a Mac developer for decades, can't be trusted with private API access?  

Apple are a bunch of cowards hiding behind policy - that they created!  Why does everyone have to be treated the same?  Answer: they don't.  But it's far easier to treat everyone the same.  No critical thought required - just numbly point to the policy, claim your hands are tied and then conveniently ignore the fact that you made the policy that is tying your hands in the first place. 

What's even worse - they can't even do that correctly!  They don't even enforce their overly simplistic policy consistently.

They can't even hid behind crying poverty (lack of resources) - they have the largest market cap!  

So what's the issue?  They don't care.  I long thought Marco Arment was going overboard with his thoughts on Apple abusing developers - but the more I critically analyze this whole thing and get below the superficial arguments, it becomes more and more apparent that Apple does indeed developers as an annoyance and something they have to begrudgingly deal with - rather than a group they value and respect.

"Convincing people — and developers — to make a transition like the move from Intel to Apple Silicon, is enormously difficult."

Difficult for who?  All you have to do is use an Apple Silicon Mac and see just how seamless it is - and then experience the performance, to become a full convert.  I could hand an Apple Silicon Mac to my mother and she would have NO idea that the CPU in it is entirely different; the amount of applications that not only run unmodified but significantly faster still than on previous Mac's is truly astounding. 

I've been working remotely on and off for over a decade now - and if I was at the start of my career I can't think of anything more dangerous to my long term success than the allure of working from home.  As others touched on, you simply can't replace the serendipity of unplanned interactions that can only happen in person.  Every significant promotion or job opportunity I have had came from direct, physical interactions that simply would not have happened if I had been working full time remote.  Now that I'm near the end I don't mind working 100% remote full time. Indeed it's let me move closer to my parents, who are older and need my support.  But I think many, especially those who are younger/just starting out, grossly underestimate and are far more ready to write off the value of in-person interactions - it's rather tragic.  
Yet another reason I count my blessings for starting out in the late 80's/early 90's and not picking up bad habits that are so easy today.  

jumpingcoco said:

just ordered my M1 Max version, will be available in a week, I honestly don't know how Apple has managed to get these chips given the level of deep shortages going on

Ordering (and paying for) millions of parts years in advance - that's how.  One thing Tim Cook is obviously VERY good at - managing the supply chain. 

Good god - where the hell did anyone get the idea that Blue is dead?  The amount of gaslighting around twitter is off the charts.  But not surprising since the establishment has lost it's favorite mouthpiece.

People paying >$10K under the table for blue checks before Elon - funny how that never gets brought up.  No wonder people are pissed that the plebs can get the same thing for $8 

Stumptowner said:

I would be interested in what Apple feels is the current and future audience for the MBAirs.  Is it evolving?  

If the new MBA could have at least 32GB of RAM my 16” MacBook Pro will be come a desktop computer and I’d switch back to the MBA as my full time computer in a heartbeat.