steveau

SoundJudgment said:

Only 66 released out of 323 made?? The Ad Agency should release some more of them (I am sure they kept them all) as the 'Lost Collection.' It will help remind everyone what made Apple great at one time.

Great idea! Bundle them in 10-12 an episode and add an interview or two and release the series on Apple TV+. It would be better than most of the product so far!

dysamoria said:

Does Apple really need you marketing this thing for them?

I’m sick of companies that think they have to have a piece of every pie. Pick one or two things to do better than everyone else and focus.

Wall Street is a disease.

Vertical integration has been around for a long time, at least since the Carnegie Steel Company in the 1890's. Probably we should just get used to it. The more interesting question is what does digitisation do to economies of scale versus diseconomies of scale?

Bastid! Of course my bank is the lone holdout.

And yes, I could move, but I have a lot of stuff tied up with them - more so over the past year, and not necessarily by choice.

Westpac are trying to sell their own wearable solution, not a watch, just an NFC tag on a wristband (or stuck to the back of your phone), but that can't be why. I'm sure it's just stubbornness.

The other problem is that I really like their iPhone App, especially for cardless withdrawals from their ATMs.
I sympathise. I have most of my banking with Westpac, but also had two NAB cards from a previous life that I used occasionally. When ANZ was the only bank that would support ApplePay, I cancelled the NAB cards and closed all accounts with them and got a new card from NAB. So, still with Westpac (yes, love their banking app and internet banking site), but can use Apple Pay through ANZ - best of both worlds. As for NAB, I won't go back.

fastasleep said:

mattinoz said:

fastasleep said:

steveau said:

"Modular" means that it will be rackable or stackable in some way. Like a couple of MacMinis with a SuperDrive, a multi-Terabyte drive or two and an Airport Extreme one on top of the other, but with the same form factor and a clever way of connecting them. Notwithstanding the Xserve, a rack would be very non-Apple, so I expect something much more elegant than that. Better too than the RackMac MacMini product. Also expect the CPU module to be water or oil cooled. Hope we don't have to wait much longer!

My read on Schiller’s use of modular was to mean a headless Mac coupled with a display. Specifically, because he mentioned it in the context of AIO systems like the iMac. Maybe also to include things like user accessible/removable storage or cards etc but I’m no way would I assume they ever meant to imply stackable or rackable LEGOesque components. 

Although with talk of AI accelorator a rackable machine (based on say OpenCompute modules) would allow Apple to dog food the a Bare bones MacPro and have full manufacturing control of some of the machines they deploy for iCloud services. The retail version would just wrap it in fancy case.

Talk of AI accelerator? What? They're not using Macs in their iCloud data centers.

Apple are selling lots of Mac Mini's to data centres, so why not a rackable/stackable solution more elegant than this (see pic)?

"Modular" means that it will be rackable or stackable in some way. Like a couple of MacMinis with a SuperDrive, a multi-Terabyte drive or two and an Airport Extreme one on top of the other, but with the same form factor and a clever way of connecting them. Notwithstanding the Xserve, a rack would be very non-Apple, so I expect something much more elegant than that. Better too than the RackMac MacMini product. Also expect the CPU module to be water or oil cooled. Hope we don't have to wait much longer!