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  • Apple acquires artificial intelligence startup AI Music

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    Does Apple require this intelligence to figure out that I don't want my phone to play random shit that I never listen to every time my phone syncs with my car in the morning?
    How are Apple services still so pathetically dumb and frustrating??
    byronl

  • Peloton could be bought by Apple to boost healthcare initiatives

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    barthrh said:
    GeorgeBMac said:Apple already has a raft of classes and excellent instructors -- and they are continually building and improving on that.
    And, like you say, Apple would not want their hardware.

    So, what's left?  A couple million subscribers who would have to buy Apple equipment anyway?  Why bother?

    Agree. I like Peloton and their product (I have one). The instructors are top notch. The hardware is excellent and creates great stickiness. The issue is that if they roll Peloton into Fitness+, subscription revenue disappears, like my $40-$50/mo. Even if theses are new subscribers, it's still as drop in revenue unless they retain a separate fee for the bike / tread classes. So they get talent; whatever, there is a lot of talent out there. It's worth something, but not the billions they'd need to pay, in my opinion. Way cheaper to selectively poach instructors with signing bonuses.
    Exactly, that was my first thought. Apple would be transitioning those subscriptions into its much cheaper service, and diminishing the “value” of peloton dramatically. This would make peloton a *very* expensive purchase. 

    As an Apple fan, a part of me really wants them to make reckless purchases to dominate markets, which likely would work out in the end. But apparently that’s not the way Apple works. That said, I do wish they would be a bit less OCD about their acquisitions. Seems like a lot of lost opportunities out there. 

    If I’m gonna dream.. one acquisition that I’d like, but probably totally out of the question, is for Apple to buy out Fight Camp, which is basically peloton, but for boxing/kickboxing. I have one, very cool, and an amazing workout. 
    watto_cobra

  • Apple targeting date near March 8 for iPhone SE, iPad Air spring keynote

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    C'mon.. larger M series iMac with black borders!
    9secondkox2

  • Amazon in talks to purchase fitness equipment producer Peloton

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    robin huber said:
    In related news, Amazon in talks to purchase the entire planet. 
    You will own nothing, rent everything from amazon, have no privacy, and you will be happy.
    -WEF
    byronlwatto_cobra

  • New Mac mini with M2 & M2 Pro - all the rumors so far

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    Xed said:
    sflocal said:
    I have a maxed-out 2018 Mac Mini and love the compact design.  I'm not in the market for one yet, for a while but I really hope Apple goes all-out on providing an updated Mini at a price point that makes it competitive, along with making it affordable for users that do not want an iMac or MacBook.  

    I can see server farms buying palette-loads of these for cloud services.  
    What if...

    The Mac mini could be powered via PoE. That sure would simplify a lot of rack wiring!
    That would reduce the number of cables and it's absolutely possible with available tech and 802.3bt Type 4, which provides up to 100W per port (and 71W per powered device).

    However, there are some minor to major issues that make this extremely unlikely...

    On the Mac mini side, the current Mac mini allowed for 150W continuous (which is a change over the 2014 model which allowed for 85W, and before that it was 110W and before that started out at 85W). Now, the 2020 M1 Mac mini was fairly unchanged from the hungry Intel version and I've shown Apple has dramatically altered the PSU capacity so it's possible that it could be smaller. It's also possible that it won't looking at the now 140W PSU in the new 16" M1 Max MacBook Pro.

    In terms of the rack I,     personally, have yet to see such a setup being utilized. Not because we like wires, but because we like to isolate problems and separating power and data is more ideal for both troubleshooting down the road and from a cost perspective up front. Now, I'm sure there are applications where a much more expensive PoE Layer 2 or 3 device is advantageous, but it's definitely not the norm. Additionally, there's significantly more heat and dissipation with PoE's DC current over your standard.

    I also don't know PoE could be affected by 10 GigE, which is an option in the Mac mini. I've only ever seen PoE in 10/100/1000 ports, but that could be simply be due to cost or need, not a technical issue—for example, you don't need that much data for an IP phone.

    Unless we see this as an already growing segment for rack servers -or- Apple has a very large customer that wants this and figured out how to make it work) which could be themselves) then I don't see it even being on the table. 

    https://www.esdglobal.com/news/article/power-and-cooling-implications-of-power-over-ethernet-on-infrastructure-design/


    PS: I don't know if I've ever seen Type 4 in action and have no idea if such devices are in production.
    For those that would benefit from having multiple mini's on the desk, would it be plausible for Apple to create an adapter that allows the mini's to be daisy-chained together via the power/ethernet port, with only one cord trailing off for power/ethernet for all? It would look very cool to see different colored mini's stacked on top of each other, neatly daisy chained, with only one cord connecting to the wall (with the power brick mounted to the bottom of the desk for those that are concerned about ground clutter).
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