entropys

lmac said:

My biggest peeve? When I have my iPhone connected to my CarPlay unit, and ask Siri to play a song or artist that's on my phone, and Siri can't do a thing because it isn't connected to the Internet.

Ir isn’t that the phone isn’t connected to the internet, but that Siri preferences to Apple Music rather than your music library.  That is what I find annoying. I can’t use my phone for Apple Music on LTE, because work pays for the service. So I have a lot of music downloaded on it.  Siri has trouble finding that.

We have started the process of building a PC, mid range gamer set up with AMD ryzen 7 and Vega 64 blower. First non Mac I have ever set up apart from master entropy’s HP Spectre for school. To be honest, the price of an iMac would not be that different once you try to match the screen, except that you have to pay ludicrous mark ups for storage on the iMac which does not make macs look good price wise.  We have of course, not even tried to match the screen and have gone for a 2K job, and saved about a K, because it is for master entropy and teh gamez.

We will see how it goes.  Yet it is a pretty big chink in our otherwise Apple gear household. Literally and figuratively.

The extortion of the price of RAM and SSD upgrades because Apple has designed these machines to make it too difficult for the average punter to do is depressing.

gutengel said:

normang said:

Climate constantly changes, to think we can actually have any impact on significantly altering the climate is the height of arrogance. It's been warmer in the past than today and its been cooler, we know this..... but somehow altering a carbon footprint is going to save us? This is not to say that we should not try and be prudent in the use of resources, but the proposed changes all mandate government control of your life and all that will do is make things worse for people, not better.

Yeah, f**k the climate. It's not like all that 97% of the scientific community (some of them dedicate their lives to study climate and the impact humans have on it) are right, right?

Have you actually read Cook’s paper where he came up with that number? It’s a polemic, including anything that mentions climate change.  It’s precisely political crap like “97%” that that gives oxygen to doubters.

edit: anyway, fear of climate change apparently helps sell iPhones. A great adaptation strategy that also helps my shares, meaning I will be better placed financially to adapt too.. 

racerhomie3 said:

entropys said:

What! I thought there was all this pent up demand for a new MBA and mini! 200k less units! My cup runneth over!*
Does this mean people aren’t embracing a y series processor and a 300 nit screen at a higher price, while lower priced competitors have u series processors? Or exorbitant prices for extra storage or memory over base config?

What is the world coming to?


* remembers its Gartner after all.

Lol 😂 iPads start at $330. And are still faster than most PCs.

I’m sorry, I don’t understand why you mentioned ipads.  Are you suggesting they are more capable than a real computer? Is that you, Mr Cook? 

If so, fix the iPads’ deficiencies and really make that theory true. It’s only a software problem. Do it!