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  • Apple suffers fourth consecutive quarter of declining sales, beat Wall Street anyway

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    CiaranF said:
    Maybe people are getting pissed off with your prices eh? Your actions on the market then drive up the prices of other smartphone manufacturers cos then they get greedy too. I remember buying my first iPhone 3GS for £299 or £349 back in 2009 or so. Now the same equivalent for me in a Pro Max model is circa £1400. That’s greed too, not inflation. 

    Now you’ve also increased your  One subscription prices globally. Third time in 2-3 years too if you’re outside of the US.  TV is useless, you’ve to pay for most of the non  stuff.  Fitness+ bugs the life out of me cos they’re all on Prozac or something with those fake smiles. iCloud is rubbish compared to Googles offering but I need it. Not much use for Arcade either. 

    Start listening to what your audience wants and will endure instead of telling them what they want or you’ll end up like Nokia. 
    So you're blaming Apple with respect to other smartphone OEM's raising their prices?  That's rich.  Do you also blame McDonald's for the obesity crisis?
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  • M3 Max benchmarks show Mac Pro performance in a MacBook

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    ApplePoor said:
    So give it up guys. Apple is making their own GPUs as part of a chip. They expended no effort to support graphic cards in the new M powered Mac Pro. They have said in big bold letters "we are building our own complete system so we do not have to worry about compatibility or support for third party products".

    That basically means that all the comparisons to third party stuff is meaningless as none of it can be directly installed in Apple products and or run on MacOS. We have zero information on how third party stuff would work in the current Apple world equipment.

    We have a very simple choice array now. Apple OS or Windows.

    Once the Apple OS decision is made, then one can choose from consumer products (in Apple's world) of the iMac, low tier MacBook Airs and low end Mac mini. The middle tier is the upper models of the MacBook Airs and Mac mini and 14" M3 MacBook Pro. The pro world includes the M3 Max, Pro and Ultra trim lines with prices to match. 

    The Geek Bench scores are one of the best known ways to compare the performances  to a score. However, some vendors have been known to build to make a great score.
    "We have a very simple choice array now. Apple OS or Windows."

    That's the been the case for awhile now
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  • Apple killed Android plans for Apple Watch

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    Apple Watch is a great device and the king of smart watches.  It literally owns the market, like iPod did the MP3 player market.  If Apple is serious about making a difference in health, and I genuinely think they are, this is a mistake.  When you factor in Android, the potential market for AW is bigger than iPhone, not just in terms of device sales but also social impact.
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  • First M3 benchmarks show big speed improvements over M2

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    mikethemartian said:
    https://www.macworld.com/article/2123124/geekbench-scores-m3-clock-speed-cpu-performance-gains.html
    higher clock speeds but consuming the same amount of power all thanks to 3nm technology
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  • First M3 benchmarks show big speed improvements over M2

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    By the looks of it, the M3 is faster than the base M1 Pro model, and about just as fast as the M2 Pro base model in multicore.  That's impressive
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