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danox said:

MassiveAttack said:

So..  a device which collects data and even if I use iPhone or MacBook, this device will absorb and collect data from all users when connecting it with Apple products which makes Apple‘s privacy obsolete. 

And this device gets smarter and smarter by learning with collected data. 

It will be a personal device while Apple makes generally purposed devices. 

I see that Apple stock is underperforming as the worst stock performer YTD among Magnificant 7.

Rotten Apple will feel the pressure. Better now than late: Tim Cook needs to step down as he can’t afford to doom Apple further and further since Vision Pro.

So Apple is in trouble because two clowns get on the stage a la Qualcomm/Microsoft last year and announce something (nothing) that requires software and hardware which preforms like vaporware but is far beyond anything Apple has done to date, and the hardware would be better than Apple Silicon and the OS driving it will be better than any of the five operating systems Apple has released in the last 25 years? Oh and at the end Apple is also doomed too.

Note: Microsoft’s effort came up so far short of Apples Rosetta one (let alone Rosetta two) and the CPU/SOC designed by Qualcomm also came up short of the M1 processor in overall actual performance in software/hardware, which is why Microsoft is now also doubling down on their AI efforts this year and downplaying the hardware aspects, Microsoft has even gone so far as canceled some of the Surface hardware recently. (Microsoft hardware solutions are so bad that many in the geek crowd are crying that Apple should emulate it with a touch screen MacOS on an M4 iPad).

The biggest difference is that Apple’s computers/devices actually sell at a profit from day one there are no giveaways. The Microsoft hardware solutions (over 12 years?) are all lost leader unprofitable Me-too products. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9qHw7xcWN4 Yep but Apple is the one who’s doomed…..

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/report-microsofts-experimental-laptop-studio-is-vanishing-without-a-replacement/

Like the Microsoft/Qualcomm current mashup, which is a lost leader and is an unprofitable Me-too product this 6 billion dollar Bromance will end in tears. (but Johnny will be a billionaire). The OpenAI Sam/Jonnie show is just looking to hold on until the initial public offering.

9secondkox2 said:

The progress apple has made in such a short time is astounding. Competitors cannot even get reasonably close without treading dangerously close to IP theft (like the kind obtained by hiring ex apple silicon engineers…) 

to be brutally honest, I wasn’t all that excited by m1 or even m2, but for the potential those series revealed. 

However, with m4, apple silicon has become quite dominant across the board. The only drawback being no m4 ultra to dominate the high end completely. 

The only issue I have with base m series chips is that the ram is optimized for performance but not for managing swap effectively. Too often, on my holdover m series devices, I run out of memory with multiple apps and lots of data being worked on. However, rhis issue is not present on older Intel devices with the same amount of ram. 

For my next mac (torn between Mac Studio ultra or MacBook Pro max if no large iMac shows up) I’ll definitely load up on RAM even though it’s prohibitively expensive. 16 or 24 gb just won’t cut it (though it does on older Intel models). I think 48 or 64 is the minimum nowadays if you want to do fairly heavy lifting. But I’ll be getting at least 128, bevause of the greater freedom to load up and not have to limit as much of what I’m working on at the same time. 

9secondkox2 said:

AppleZulu said:

Now China is halting exports of certain rare earth metals and magnets. They have a monopoly on them, and the US needs them. I'm sure @9secondkox2 ; will tell us how this was all part of Trump's brilliant master plan as well. He has our best interests at heart, and has thought all this stuff through, you know. Don't you fret. Everything's fine.

Pretty sure the current admin is prepared for chin to pull every last one of their cards. The Chinese government is a lethal combination of petulant, proud, and evil. You don’t stir that up unless you’re prepared to do some serious stuff. China is not a free country and is not run by benevolent people. China has a public plan to reshape the world in its image. They need standing up to now more than ever. Tarriffs are small potatoes.