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Tested: Mac Studio with M1 Max vs. Mac Studio with M1 Ultra
You don't understand that you are buying quality products not Joe Bargain Basement which, odds are, die in two to three years. For example the SSD is high quality small ddr5. For comparison a Dell Memory Upgrade - 32GB - 2RX8 DDR5 UDIMM 4800MHz costs $519.99... which is $119 less than what Apple is charging.OutdoorAppDeveloper said:Does anyone else think that paying $400 for 32GB of RAM or $200 for 512GB of SSD space is a bit expensive? Like perhaps four times what the parts should cost? I guess we will just have to upgrade them our... oh snap!
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Congress running out of time on its Big Tech antitrust bill
Madbum said:Idiotic politicians with their idiotic bills
Politicians have got to make a show of doing something...while actually doing nothing.
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Apple XProtect is now proactive with periodic malware scans
CheeseFreeze said:
I think that approach would hurt Apple’s brand. It would suggest that without this $5 service, their operating system is not safe, and you need to pony up dollars to make it safe.discountopinion said:Endpoint protection services and software is an essential business that Apple is giving away to Microsoft and others.
it is a glaring gaping hole in the Apple service portfolio and security services is currently MS fastest growing segment and one of the reasons Azure was not ignored in favour of AWS.
A personal Microsoft 365 subscription includes Defender for MacOS.
Apple releasing obsolete scanning features is not impressive for a company that has trust and privacy as part of the value prop.
honestly - add another 5 dollars per month to AppleOne and include XDR like agents across the device family with iCloud as the management console. Ties well into the SMB push they are doing and MDM offering.
Users of Apple devices not being targeted or at lower risk is not true.This is a multi Billion dollar business in the waiting for Apple.By offering it for free, they make it part of their value proposition and focus on productivity and content services, aka turning your computer or phone into a “vending machine of services and products”.
Heck, if you wanted to be overly cynical you could say Microsoft either purposely "crippled" their OS security just so they could sale this service or the programmers they have are so poorly skilled they can't figure out how to have such a security feature built into the OS.
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Apple getting sued over App Store user data collection
Sounds like that guy on 60 Minutes back in the 70s or 80s who practically lived on nuisance suits — just enough that fighting it wasn't worth the defendant's money to fight (ie they would spend more to fight than pay).JP234 said:As long as Apple isn't selling it to third parties (they aren't), I fail to see the harm Elliot Libman has incurred, nor what compensatory and punitive damages to which he's entitled.
