charlesn

Thank you, Apple--I guess--for saving me money again with another mediocre upgrade. STILL with the dated looking fat bezels? A bump to the near useless 6E when Wifi 7 is already here and supported by Apple in other products? No landscape camera? 

muthuk_vanalingam said:

charlesn said:

Here's a killer product that Apple could make today, but they won't: the MacPad Pro.  Essentially, it's a 13" iPad Pro form factor that can boot into either MacOS or iPadOS, depending on user choice. M chips are perfectly capable of this. Boot into iPadOS, and it behaves like a normal iPad. Boot into MacOS and the screen becomes non-touch, so you connect a Magic Keyboard and operate it like a normal Macbook. Best of both worlds in one device and no need to figure out how to kludge a touch-based OS onto MacOS. 

I agree completely with you on this. I don't understand why few people in this forum criticize this idea as Fridge/Toaster etc. 

Yep... the more accurate comparison to a MacPad Pro would be fridge/freezer: two devices that share a core functionality, keeping food cold, and yet neither would be a satisfying substitute for the other. You need both, depending on the result you want to achieve. 

If Apple Insider is going to publish "sky is falling" data like this as fact, it would very helpful, not to mention journalistically responsible, to also publish the past accuracy of the source. (And yes, when market share for a quarter is reported to have supposedly dropped 18.5% YOY, that qualifies as "sky is falling.") 

Just consider the following: Canalys data indicates that Apple shipped over ONE MILLION fewer Macs in Q3 2024 vs Q3 2023. That's a drop in shipments of 19%! Which just happens to almost perfectly correlate with the 18.5% drop in market share also reported by Canalys. That's so neat, right? EXCEPT: when Apple reported Q3 2024 earnings back on August 1, Mac revenue for the quarter was UP 2% YOY, which is completely at odds with the Canalys conclusions. And let's remember that Apple is legally bound to report accurate data, while Canalys is not. 

elijahg said:

AppleInsider said:

The advantage of microLED is that it could offer OLED-like contrast and brightness, but without requiring a backlight panel.

Instead, the microLEDs are used directly to make the picture. They are deposited in a pattern, with each able to display red, green, or blue light. This also eliminates the need for a color filtering layer.

What? OLED doesn't have a backlight panel, OLED pixels are "used directly" to make the picture and they don't need a color filtering layer. You are confusing LCD and LED. Either way LCD is irrelevant on the Watch because it uses OLED. The actual advantages to MicroLED are it's essentially immune to burn in, the brightness is higher, colour quality can be better and potentially less power consumption. You are welcome to credit me in the article.

The wording is definitely confusing but the intended meaning is not incorrect. The complete thought being expressed is the following, with my addition in bold: "The advantage of microLED is that it could offer OLED-like contrast and brightness, but without requiring a backlight panel like conventional LED displays."

What a great, comprehensive review! Nice work! Interesting that you noticed the watch 10 is significantly more comfortable to wear. I always felt that the 15 Pro models redesign, as subtle as it was, made a much bigger difference than I would have expected in the "hand feel" of the phone, especially since I don't use a case. 

Reportedly, the difference with the S10 is that it's thinner than the S9, which was necessary to fit in the slimmed-down, Watch 10 case. Performance is identical to S9, which explains why Ultra 2 didn't get "upgraded" to the new chip. 

I don't really see a next big step up for the Watch until the tech is ready to support genuine blood pressure and blood glucose readings. The BP feature mentioned as a possibility for this year didn't seem especially useful: no actual readings, just an indication of whether BP was trending up or down. Since BP tends to naturally trend up and down on it's own, depending on time of day, what you ate, physical activity, level of stress, etc., drawing any conclusions from how your BP is trending at a given moment could be very misleading.