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  • Apple TV+ production of 'Metropolis' has shut down permanently

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    zimmie said:
    I was really looking forward to this one, but the strike is more important, without a doubt. Oh well. We can always hope they pick it up again in a few years.
    I guess I must be a stick in the mud or just an old curmudgeon, but I feel that the original is such an awesome, original work of art that any reimagination would have a very steep path to being nearly as good, much less better.

    Maybe Mr. Esmail can develop another original idea, like Mr. Robot, that will be as memorable as that series.
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  • Rumored Mac Studio trade-in points to possible refresh during WWDC

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    timmillea said:
    The Mac Studio is a design monstrosity and should never have been produced by Apple. I agree that it was probably an interim product before the Apple Silicon Mac Pro could be released. Even so, it was a terrible mistake, tarnishing the design credentials of a design-focussed brand. 

    A 15" MacBook Air, if true, would be a further dilution of the brand. The MBA is a small and light laptop that fits in an envelope. 

    Since Sir Jony Ive left, Apple appears to have lost its way.

    There is a momentum from previous successes but any more crap from Apple will start to impact. 
    As Cicero put it, "De gustibus non disputandum est," or as some pithier Roman had it, "Suum quique."

    Design monstrosity to you, best looking Mac ever to me. There's something about the effective fusion of form and function, particularly the thermal design, that represents beauty to me. For some applications, a notebook that fits in an envelope is just right; for others, a monster of a machine that fits in a breadbox is the thing. And some would say that since Sir Jony left, Apple figured out a middle path between extreme design and pure performance that leads the way in design.
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  • How Steve Jobs saved Apple with the iMac 27 years ago

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    entropys said:
    Loved the Pixar lamp iMacs.

    But the  best iMac I ever had was the G5. It was designed to be repairable and upgradable by the owner.  Noisy though. and the first intel that replaced it was basically unrepairable. This situation did not improve until about 2010. It still wasn’t easy, but you could do it. After that forget it.

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    Fair enough. But in 25 years of owning and using iMacs, both at work and at home, I've had to (1) replace the CD drive on a Rev. A 1998 iMac (that activity cost me a little bit of blood) and (2) bring one machine in to an Apple store for motherboard replacement after the graphics card died. That's out of nine machines at home. At work, we ran a couple of dozen over twenty years; one (only) needed a motherboard swap, which unfortunately required hauling the machine in to an Apple Store in (of course) an upscale mall less than a week before Christmas (which was more painful than the cuts and abrasions suffered during the CD drive replacement) — but despite the crazy business of the Store that day, they had the swap done in a couple of hours, most of which turned out to represent the hardware guy's lunch break.

    Replacing entire units (e.g. motherboards) may not be the best thing for the environment, though I assume Apple remanufactured the ones we gave up, but from a business standpoint, they got the replacement process done in good time, despite retail stress.
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  • iPhone sales propel Apple's earnings beyond Wall Street expectations

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    Marvin said:
    danox said:
    If the full the range of Mac computers were for sale to the public, Apple probably would’ve been up in Mac Computer sales, when compared to last year’s quarter at the same time. 
    The rest of the range only makes a fraction of the unit volume (<5%). Last year's revenue was due to the record M1 launch that near doubled their sales vs Intel.

    This year is a contraction from that record high. M2 would never reach that level but it's still way above Intel Mac sales.

    M3 and 15" Air will be able to go back up a bit, especially the 15" Air as it's the most popular form factor and will be at a higher price point.
    The "full range" imho would be M3 (different range of options for different models) versions of the mini, the 24-inch iMac, the Studio, the MacBook (two sizes), the MacBook Pro (ditto), and the Mac Pro. Throw in a 27-inch iMac or an iMac Pro for good measure. that might take another year or 15 months to achieve, given current M3 yields at TSMC, but I'm guessing Q3 next year is going to look a lot different from this year's Mac results.
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  • Apple issues Rapid Security Response update for iOS 16.4.1, macOS 13.3.1

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    Downloaded without issue over WiFi at ~ 2:00 PM EDT, but would not install.

    Just tried again at ~ 8:20 PM EDT, and the installation and reboot went quickly and without a hitch.
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