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This article and these comments are making me want to swap my desert for the white model 

Shame. I really like the Apple Arcade concept. It took me a long while to realize the games on there don’t have micro transactions.


I’m looking forward to Polytopia coming out soon.


Apple Arcade is a great idea and at the moment it was really lame games. It makes sense that developers aren’t making ROI and opting to go it alone instead. But with annoying, but revenue generating, micro transactions. 

I’ve had a few days to think about the AVP. It’s still too expensive for a consumer device, like how they presented it in their reveal. I’d want at least two of them to enjoy with family, but not for $7k… 


Personally, I don’t do any work at home because my work laptop is a PC and the work isn’t techie enough to need huge screens. I’m definitely not the target audience. However, it would be interesting to have one on an airplane because I travel internationally a LOT. I’d like to have one screen for a movie and a smaller screen for emails that come in from my iPhone. At home, it would be cool to have recipes up while I cook or manuals while I work on stuff. But my iPad serves that niche for a magnitude less…

I went into Best Buy a month ago to get the iPhone X because I wanted to use my Best Buy Credit Card for the free warranty and all that. Turns out the 256gb version that I wanted was $1260, a little over $100 more than MSRP which I could get anywhere else. The cell phone sales guy couldn't tell me why it cost more at BB, which also sorely needs the business.

A week later it hit me. BB gives rewards bucks which is about 10% of the purchase price, so BB bumped up the price to avoid handing out 10% off. But what I can't reconcile is why? If I had bought a toaster, video games, whatever that amounted to $1260, I'd still get 10% back as in-store rewards bucks. So if BB didn't want to lose that narrow profit margin to the 10% back, didn't they consider that they would gain it in the profit margins of whatever else I buy in-store? Like phone cases, screen protectors, games, headphones, etc.? 

So long BB, you've lost any incentive I've had to use your CC. I just bought it at Apple anyway with my bank's CC.