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  • WSJ reported Apple was headed for a slump before one of the biggest rallies ever

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    lkrupp said:
    Go get ‘em Daniel, asshat clowns that they are. Another turd was recently launched by Forbes declaring TV+ DOA and that Apple should kill it now to save face. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/01/27/its-time-for-apple-to-kill-apple-tv/#1c0cf5cf7e15
    Even worse, I saw a Forbes contributor writing up a dozen paragraphs about Facebook "taking on" Face ID and how it was going to challenge Apple in face recognition without sending any data back to its servers, while wondering how this might work.

    The entire thing was based on a tweet by somebody noting that FB planed to add FaceID lock to Messenger. Apple's FaceID, to unlock the app for greater security. 

    The guy then assumed this somehow meant Facebook was hand rolling its own face recognition system to run on device and using Apple's trade name for it. He was the CEO or some company, too. 

    Modern mean means anyone can say literally anything and have a byline on what was formerly an actual magazine.  
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  • Editorial: Pro Display XDR and Apple's Grand Stand

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    AB101 said:
    Has DED ever been critical of Apple on anything?
    Yes
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  • Editorial: Pro Display XDR and Apple's Grand Stand

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    tenthousandthings said:
    dysamoria said:
    anome said:
    I'll say it again.... I have been told by someone in the know (has had one for 6 months now) that the display comes with a stand included in the box. Just not the Pro stand.

    And holy cow! I bought a little quick-release setup for my Red camera for $1500... a 480GB SSD rehoused in a RED enclosure is still $1450... For professional work, this is not that expensive. Especially if you see that a color correct monitor has usually been at least 3 times the price of the Pro monitor and Pro stand!

    They will sell thousands of them if not tens of thousands. But not millions of them.
    Thanks for confirming that. I recall hearing something about it at the announcement, but no-one ever seems to mention that you don't actually need to buy the Pro stand, the display comes with a basic stand in the box. A lot of the complaints I have heard about the display are along the lines of "You pay US$5000 and you don't even get a stand." or "You need to spend US$1000 extra to use it."

    Even if it doesn't come with a basic, non adjustable stand, there will be other options, but as I understand it, and studiomusic has confirmed, your US$5000 monitor does come with a free stand.
    I’ve heard it too, but it’s basically at rumor level. This still has not been confirmed by Apple, has it?
    I think if you look at the original threads, you’ll find Mike or someone else from AI in attendance was able to confirm from Apple that it would come with a regular stand. No details about the stand, only the fact of its existence. 

    I think it’s likely Apple made no official pronouncement about it because the packaging and included stand was not yet finalized at the time and they wanted to keep their options open. And they wanted the focus to be on the high-end stand. 

    EDIT: To add that I think it was a mistake, and a very typical sort of Apple mistake — they tend to get caught up in showing off the luxury aspects of their products and lose sight of very basic questions that people need answered.
    It's easy to suggest answers and advice in retrospect, but there was no real way for Apple to anticipate that people would jump to various insane conclusions. The VP on stage merely put up a side with two prices on it. There's no way to forecast how dumb people will be. Now perhaps it could have assumed that people who weren't in the market for a $10k + workstation would start freaking out about accessory prices, but that's much easier to see in retrospect. 

    Even if Apple had noted other details, there would still be ignorant barking from bloggers just making up nonsense. Read some of the hot take links--one guy says "it has magnets in the connector. I don't feel comfortable with that." As if he's worried about his floppy disks and has never used an iPad keyboard or pencil.

    One can not make the world safe for stupid. I mean, look at America. The harder you try to make something idiotproof, the more idiots you get pushing the envelope of idiocy. 

    The only real solution is expecting a higher level of intelligence from bloggers and journalists criticizing whey they verge off into stupid. 
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  • A6X: How Apple's iPad silicon Disrupted mobile video gaming

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    Peza said:
    I have to say, although I think the iPhone and iPad are very powerful and capable gaming machines, they have no games. It’s all freemium crap. COD Mobile and Mario Kart are great and I enjoy them, but they are freemium titles designed specifically to make you spend spend spend.. now look at the Switch and the Switch Lite, fantastic machines and portable and complete with a big games library now, mostly premium games with no in app purchases.
    Thats vastly more important then the power under the hood, and why Apple will never be able to seriously compete in the mobile games market.
    Nintendo did make a remarkable comeback with Switch, which has been selling a respectable ~20m units a year. But it came out in 2017. It first began conceptual development right here in 2012 at the time of iPad 3. So Nintendo was clearly influenced by iPad taking off, and how it had crushed PSP/PSVita. Switch was built in the PostPC era, unlike the PSP and DS that predated iPad. 

    Taking a page from Jobs's iPad concept, Nintendo clearly realized that if it wanted to stand alone, separate from a notebook or phone, it would have to do some things better than either. Hence the ideas of a dock and removable joycons and multiuser play. 

    But also note that from 2012-2017, handheld games were hit hard by mobile devices and it looked like the market for handheld games would be erased completely. This ended up to be significantly longer than the Video Game Crash of 1982-1983, when Atari 2600 games glutted the market and people basically decided that video games were over and nobody would do them any more. It was again Nintendo that jumped in with a new generation of game console with the NES and got people into playing again, protected with a tight licensing program on games to prevent another glut. 

    The App Store fremium crap is basically another glut of games, except that apps can now nag for money or show ads. Apple realized that was killing the fun of games and came up with Arcade. Will see how well it does. It doesn't even have to be profitable for Apple to be strategically important. If Apple can pay games developers like in house artisans in residence, it can maintain proprietary content that keeps people buying new iPads and iPhones and Apple TVs. That's why I wrote that Services are software--they help protect Apple's ecosystem and add value to its hardware.

    "...why Apple will never be able to seriously compete in the mobile games market"

    What a nutty thing to say given that Apple makes virtually all the money there is to be made in mobile gaming. 

       
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  • Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro reveals its future direction

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    Where is Apple going? I forget where I read it (maybe Reuters or CNBC?) but it was solid opinion piece espousing the theory that, now with Jony Ives gone, Apple is returning to prioritizing functionality over slick design. That sounds reasonable to me: Lighten up on their obsession with thin and light at all costs and focus a little more on making the user experience a good one.
    Beyond the obvious problem of a "solid opinion piece" ever appearing on CNBC, there are some other problems here: Jony Ives is not gone. He wasn't the sole driving force shaping hardware at Apple over the past 3 years. And Apple clearly doesn't "prioritize slick design over functionality." 

    The idea that Apple has an "obsession with thin and light at all costs" is just silly. If it weren't selling products, it wouldn't be a motivation. 

    Apple's heavy, thick 17" MBP (which I owned, and even schlepped around Europe one summer in a backpack) isn't sold because it wasn't selling. People want light and thin,

    I've talked to a lot of developers, and the most common feature I hear is that they want their back to not hurt from carrying their laptop around. Workers who are actually mobile know how important mobility is. That's also a major reason why iPad is vastly more popular than any notebook brand, despite being less capable of various other things. The really weird obsession is people who think "light and thin" is a problem that should be fixed by making notebooks heavy and thick (!)

    Just nutty.
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