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muthuk_vanalingam said:

davgreg said:

iPad Pro?
They are due for an upgrade.

I have a MacBook Pro 14” that mostly stays home as a desktop and my iPad Pro goes everywhere. Ready to see the iPad Pro’s next act.

Not without significant improvements to iPad OS. They are already overpowered for running iPad OS in the last 2 generations (A12X/Z, M1 generations), Apple has to focus on improvements to iPad OS before launching the M2 version of iPad Pros.

StrangeDays said:

flydog said:

cg27 said:

So prior to the cuts Peleton has over 10,000 employees?  If that’s the case they’re beyond bloated.  There are successful EV startups that have fewer employees than that.  This is just a dumb bike with some app and personal trainers, not exactly rocket science.

Even if the article means to say 2800 remain that’s still a ton of overhead, for what??

Not seeing the connection between Peloton and EV startups.  

Seemed pretty clear - EVs are a much more complicated business than exercise bikes with screens. If they had a staff of 10,000 that seems way, way too big. 

Xed said:

cg27 said:

flydog said:

cg27 said:

So prior to the cuts Peleton has over 10,000 employees?  If that’s the case they’re beyond bloated.  There are successful EV startups that have fewer employees than that.  This is just a dumb bike with some app and personal trainers, not exactly rocket science.

Even if the article means to say 2800 remain that’s still a ton of overhead, for what??

Not seeing the connection between Peloton and EV startups.  

An Electric Vehicle is orders of magnitude more complex to engineer and manufacture and certify.  Hence the need for more employees.  I could’ve used other industry examples but hopefully you get the point.  It seems Peleton would need only a couple thousand at most.  Even if they were planning more exercise machines.

That's not a connection. That's, at best, a bad comparison.

It’s not a connection, it’s an example, and an apt one. EVs are higher tech than exercise bikes for a hundred reasons. If they had 10,000 employees then management did a poor job managing their growth and costs.

crowley said:

A mini with no camera bump and ProMotion would be an instant buy for me.

Beats said:

22july2013 said:

Although the limit of four characters engraving seems to prohibit placing a phone number on the AirTag, I noticed there were lots of two-digit emojis to choose from so I was able to engrave my 7 digit phone number on mine. The highest two digit emoji is 50 so some phone numbers will be unengravable, however the fact that a phone number has only 7 digits, not 8, means you can still find a way to select some 7-digit phone numbers that contain high digits. There were two ways I could have engraved my number because of this trick. This means people can contact me if they find my AirTag even if I haven't put mine into "Lost Mode."

This is ridiculous of Apple. They should allow 2 sentences of text.

For example:

This is my dog!
😢 Please return (555) 555-5555

StrangeDays said:

skippingrock said:

Or initial engraving limitation for it’s sudden sellout was a brilliant marketing plan to generate even more interest… but who knows but them. 

Ah yes, the “artificially constrain supply in order to sell more” conspiracy. Yeah. That isn’t how it works. Apple is already on top of the industry, anything they announce gets front page coverage on CNN etc...they dont need to artificially limit production to generate interest. Doing so only hampers their ability to sell more thru the channel. Nope. At their scale, their problem is that of actual supply constraint.

When a product does well someone always says this “artificial supply” crap.

Does it even work? Why would Apple sell 100,000 and hold back millions of units just to “hype the product”. That’s so stupid logically. If something is sold out it frustrates the consumer causing them to buy an alternative. Especially if it’s a b-day gift.