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It’s missing brown-beige.  Talk about uninspired.

This seems very slow considering OLED laptops have been a thing for quite a while now.  I know Apple’s requirements are a lot higher than current offerings, but still.  The iPhone OLED can already hit 2000 nits.  Is it that hard to scale these to laptop sizes?  At this rate micro LED won’t be a thing this decade.  Hopefully they can further improve mini LED in the meantime.

Says a lot about Samsung as a company.  They are serial cheaters and liars.

So they’ll replace a soon-to-be 4 year-old chip that first appeared in 2018 iPhones with a 2 year-old chip that debuted in 2020… in 2023?  And they call that caring about the product and moving it forward?  That’s just laughable.

Is the Apple TV the designated product for chips they source from recaptured old phones?  That’s the only justification I can think of other than extreme profiteering and taking their customers for idiots.  I’m not buying an AppleTV that has a several-years-old chip even when it’s first launched.  Seriously Apple, what gives?

You could say the A12 already handles video streaming functions at 4K, and it does, so why do you need anything more?  But video streaming isn’t the only thing to consider.  There’s also efficiency and as others have said the potential for gaming that is being left to flounder if not die off on the device completely.

I wasn’t the least bit interested in this “event” (presentation) and I’m even less interested in this 2,000+ word counter-rant about it.  I can’t even watch the presentations with new hardware anymore because of Tim Cook.

I’m just not interested in Apple curating news or creating content.  Everything has to be approved and conform to their terms and conditions, which are designed (in part) to promote their corporate image as a safe and family-friendly platform.  We’ve seen how app developers can fall foul of these guidelines for laughably minor things.  They’ve also disallowed apps such as Wikileaks for political reasons.  Would an article or film that’s highly critical of Apple (or examines labour or environmental conditions) be approved for publication through their services?  Whether yes or no, it’s being subject to approval (and therefore disapproval) that’s the problem.

It’s for this reason that I deleted the News app and won’t consider News+ (whatever that is).  I’m not a baby and I’m not interested in a platform that’s made “safe” for me.  I do begrudgingly accept the locked-down (for apps) iOS platform in exchange for security and other benefits of the iPhone and App Store, but there’s no way I’ll let their approvals processes and oversight cross over to other content that I’ve traditionally viewed in a free and open fashion.  If I see an Apple or Disney logo on content I’m unlikely to be interested—it’s just not my thing.

I wish I could get adult-oriented “stickers” for iMessage, but you can’t.  This is my point about Apple and content: I wish they’d focus on making excellent hardware.  They seem to have enough on their plate keeping most of their computers up to date.

Apple’s message: Pleb iPhone owners don’t deserve to have nice colours.

Why the weirdly defensive tone of this whole article?

“Democracy”.

They need a 120 Hz Studio display to compliment it.

I doubt Apple will include it with the yet-to-be-released M3-based products including an upcoming Mac Studio and Mac Pro, but may well switch to it for the M4 series.

if they release new displays, they should strongly consider using TB5 so they can fully power the 16” MacBook Pro.  The TB4 displays cannot.