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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. 

discountopinion said:

OMG so tempting to get the M4 IPad Pro with all the trimmings. I am holding out though to understand if the 8GB vs 16GB is of material importance or not for the future.

I’ve never once thought “gee, I wish I had less RAM”

DaveyDaveDave said:

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

Why would a point of sale terminal need more than 256GB?   

iMacs are used for all kinds of purposes, not just what you think they should be used for.

amusingfool said:

Just the ability to do nano texture on a touchscreen is very interesting.  I'm drooling a bit, but not upgrading anytime soon.

Yeah, how is that going to work?  What if it starts to wear off unevenly?  Maybe they have refined it so it’s not so fragile as on the displays?  That would be amazing!

9secondkox2 said:

 Restraint is where Ive shined 

Are you insane?  Without Steve to temper him Ive went nuts and we ended up with laptops with no ports and a disaster of a keyboard in the relentless pursuit of thin at all costs.