melgross

I keep telling people to not listen to the negative analysts. Three predicted disappointing iPhone sales this quarter, while two reported very good iPhone sales.

meanwhile, the stick went down $4.19during the day and is about $4.50 down after hours. I know the market is down today (Microsoft was down over $26, for example), but still

y2an said:

Why does the M4 still only have 16 cores in the neural engine? The claim is that it’s 3x faster than M1 but is that enough for AI or is the GPU really doing the heavy lifting and they just have to keep the neural engine as a named feature for show?

The number of cores isn’t the way to measure anything like this., if the cores keep getting more powerful, that’s what matters. They’re up to 50 trillion ops now. That’s a big increase. But A.I. (I hate that term!), uses everything in the sic in different ways and to differing extents.

believe me, if it were just a feature for show, Apple would have been gleefully called out on it.

muthuk_vanalingam said:

melgross said:

danvm said:

danox said:

Google and Meta sell you to the highest bidder for profit, Apple like most retailers gets all the information from you (about you) when you buy something from them to complete a mutual transaction, Google and Meta have to dig into the cesspool/trashcan (internet) to get the same information thru Spy-net. 

Many people can’t grasp the how you make your money determines everything that you do afterwards in terms of how you conduct your business going forward, Google and Meta are night and day different from Apple and no amount of me too or feel good products or giveaways will change that.

Didn't Apple sold their customers to Google when they agree to make Google Search the default search engine in every Apple device?  It looks like Apple get some billions from Google business practices, right?

No, they didn’t. All it gives Google is the default position as the search engine. You can easily change it to another.

If it is such a trivial point, why does Google pay billions of dollars to Apple every year.

I didn’t say it was trivial. You just did. It’s too bad people who don’t know how this works, comment.

muthuk_vanalingam said:

melgross said:

danvm said:

danox said:

Google and Meta sell you to the highest bidder for profit, Apple like most retailers gets all the information from you (about you) when you buy something from them to complete a mutual transaction, Google and Meta have to dig into the cesspool/trashcan (internet) to get the same information thru Spy-net. 

Many people can’t grasp the how you make your money determines everything that you do afterwards in terms of how you conduct your business going forward, Google and Meta are night and day different from Apple and no amount of me too or feel good products or giveaways will change that.

Didn't Apple sold their customers to Google when they agree to make Google Search the default search engine in every Apple device?  It looks like Apple get some billions from Google business practices, right?

No, they didn’t. All it gives Google is the default position as the search engine. You can easily change it to another.

If it is such a trivial point, why does Google pay billions of dollars to Apple every year.

Because people are lazy and they know it. It helps that Google is the best search engine. Google states in their quarterly reports where they make money from. And they make more than 50% of their money online from Apple.

svencito said:

The only thing I'm waiting for is the 27-inch sibling. 23.5' just won't do it for me.

I doubt we’ll see that. Apple has previously indicated that the 27” was finished. The 24, being in between seems to be a replacement for both the 21.5 and the 27. Schools liked the 21.5. That was one of the biggest markets. The 24 isn’t much bigger. There have been rumors since the 27 was discontinued that Apple was coming out with a new “pro” model with a 32” screen, but I’m not sure I believe that.

my wife, who has an older 27” model, all decked out, wants a new 27 too. I told her to just get the 27 studio and a new Mini when Apple shows it to us, hopefully this week. That’s what I would do.