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muthuk_vanalingam said:

Japhey said:

ravnorodom said:

PC sucks. I bought my son Dell game laptop for his engineering major in his college. Wifi and bluetooth went busted after 1.5 years. I had to work around it with wifi/bluetooth USB dongles which took up half of USB ports. This is his second Dell and first one had the same issue. My MacBook Pro lasts forever. Never had any issue like this craps.

Yeah, 1.5 years sounds about right. I have family members that have to replace their pc’s at least every other year. Some more often than that. Meanwhile, my last MacBook still ran like a champ after 8 years before being retired for an M1 model.

Wow, replacing PCs/Laptops just after 1.5 years. Unbelievable!!!

A windows PC that I assembled about 15 years ago (Intel Core2Duo CPU, 2GB RAM, 1TB hard disk) was retired about 6 years ago because it became too slow to run windows 7. We packed it and kept it in a box in a corner of the house (did not throw it away luckily). And we needed an additional PC for my son to attend online classes due to COVID lockdowns. We did not want to spend too much money buying a new PC/laptop/tablet, so we decided to bring the old PC back to life and replaced the hard disk with SATA SSD (not the faster M.2 one because the old motherboard does not support it). And guess what? It is able to run windows 7 absolutely fine without any issues. And it was used for 1 year until the school reopened and classes were conducted in offline mode. And my 6 year old windows PC (i3 4th generation, 4GB RAM, 512GB SSD) is also working without any issues, running windows 10. My experience is at the extreme end of other side, when compared to you guys. I must be doing something wrong, to be able to use a 15 year old PC while you guys needed to replace the PCs within 1.5 years. 

foregoneconclusion said:

danvm said:

lkrupp said:

Okay, so there were two statements made that sealed the fate of the larger iMac. The first was that the Mac Studio and Studio display were the perfect for 27” iMac users. The second statement was at the very end when he said there was only one Mac left to tradition, the Mac Pro.

So, there will be no iMac Pro, no iMac with a larger screen. The 24” iMac is it. The Mac Studio is the future and I’m okay with that.

I agree.  When you consider cost (the entry iMac Pro was $5,000 vs $3600 for the Mac Studio + Display Studio) and performance, there is no reason to release a revised iMac Pro, IMO.  

Agree on iMac Pro. Disagree on iMac 27". There's no real reason to believe Apple won't release a 27" or larger iMac at a later date. The screen size has nothing to do with the use of M series processors. 

lkrupp said:

Okay, so there were two statements made that sealed the fate of the larger iMac. The first was that the Mac Studio and Studio display were the perfect for 27” iMac users. The second statement was at the very end when he said there was only one Mac left to tradition, the Mac Pro.

So, there will be no iMac Pro, no iMac with a larger screen. The 24” iMac is it. The Mac Studio is the future and I’m okay with that.

Beats said:

danvm said:

MassiveAttack said:

highframerate said:

freeassociate2 said:

So don’t sell at a loss, and produce enough of them? (Instead of artificial shortages that are obvious ploys to boost desirability.)

The “robust and viable ecosystem for game developers" argument is such horseshit if you look at where indie developers are actually making money (or rather not making money…) Does anyone buy the idea that MS is soooooo into gaming that it loses billions of $$ on a passion project? (Or that that would be legal, given it’s duty to shareholders.) 

I’d argue that MS and others like it intentionally create the economic circumstances that make working for AAA studios the only sad “viable” option for most developers. The only people that are benefiting here are investors.  

If consoles weren't sold at a loss, they would cost 50% more and far fewer people would buy them. You folks don't understand: not very many people buy consoles. About 50 million XBox One consoles were sold over 7 years. That is probably about the number of Google Pixel phones that sold in that timeframe. And no, these shortages aren't artificial. First off, these shortages did not exist with the PS4, XBox One, PS3, XBox 360 etc. These shortages are due to TSMC being the only foundry capable of making an integrated SOC for these devices that don't overheat. This is the same TSMC that also can't fill all of Apple's orders, forcing Apple to prioritize iPhones over iPads, remember?
AMD's Zen 4 chips were supposed to launch in November 2021. At this rate AMD will consider themselves lucky if they launch in October 2022, and they have even had to shift some orders to Samsung, just as Intel - who will use TSMC's fabs for some orders in 2023 - considered doing and Nvidia did last year for Ampere GPUs.

The console business model is totally different from the mobile device one. Samsung alone sells more smartphones in 1 year than the entire console industry - Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and the minor players - sells in an entire generation. Yes, the Nintendo Switch sells at a profit. But do you know why? The Nintendo Switch is actually the Nvidia Shield K1 Android tablet from 2015 running the Nintendo 3DS operating system (based on FreeBSD) along with some Android components and Nvidia software. The Nvidia Shield K1 tablet was $200 when it originally launched! 

I can see you bashing Microsoft - decades of hate I guess - but you realize that by doing this you are also trashing Sony, whose console costs the same, whose shortages are even worse, and who has nothing to do with these app store battles with Epic Games and regulators. The PlayStation is their last big money hardware product left. The iPod and iPhone killed off the Walkman, boom boxes and the other consumer audio products that were massive for them in the 80s and 90s. Streaming - and streaming boxes - killed off their VHS, DVD and Blu-ray line. They so badly botched their attempts to make Android devices that they don't even bother to distribute more than a few units outside Japan (iPhone 70% market share) anymore. Their TV line is being battered by South Korean and Chinese competition. They are also only "one among many" when it comes to selling headphones (where they get crushed by AirPods) and speakers (getting devalued by smart products from Amazon, Sonos, Google and Apple). And they ditched their PC line ages ago because they could no longer compete with HP, Dell, Lenovo and Apple (Toshiba made the same decision). 

If you have some business plan or strategy where Sony could make $200 per unit on the PS5 and still sell enough to make money selling $70 copies of the Spider-Man game go ahead and share it. My guess is that you don't, and you don't care what happens to Sony or the console market so long as Apple gets to keep doing whatever Apple wants. You are probably ROOTING for the console makers to fail so Apple could take their place. Just as pretty much everyone on this site was rooting for Nintento to fail 5 years ago so Apple could buy them and make Mario, Link, Pokemon etc. exclusives on Apple TV (so that people would actually start buying them), iPads and iPhones.

You say that the console business is different from the mobile business.

So.. Why do we have to listen to Microsoft then??? Microsoft clearly tried to launch smartphones with their own Window OS, which failed. Their fault. Not Apple´s fault. 

Microsoft is giving a lot of BS this time because Microsoft is jealous that AAPL and GOOGL are so successful with their smartphones and smoothly running OS, which Microsoft wished to have. 

If MS is jealous of Apple and Google smartphone business, then I suppose Apple and Google are jealous of MS successful cloud business and their enterprise / business ecosystem, right?

NO.

What a stupid, stupid assumption. The article isn’t about Apple complaining that Microsoft Word is too successful.

9secondkox2 said:

So… Microsoft copies Apples principles and then subtlety jabs at them? LOL

Then trying to make their purchase of activision seem like a benefit for gamers? 

This is just Microsoft trying to copy a successful formula from Apple and spin it with double talk from their butts. Again. 

Apple has done everything to make a fair, secure, and open App Store that people actually like and choose over competitors. That’s a good thing not a bad one. 

With tactics like this, Microsoft is showing they are not for users/gamers. They are for themselves. And when they think they see blood in the water, they don’t miss an opportunity to pounce. The only problem is that, historically, their feeding frenzy leads to them biting themselves and missing the target, leading to product snd service shutdowns and losses due to consumers not being as gullible as they think. 

Looks like more of the same in store for the near future. 

Too bad apple didn’t buy bungie and let Sony scoop them up. All bungie games are amazing and their IPs are successful for the long term. I can’t remember the last time I played an activision blizzard game. The stupid looking designs of Warcraft are annoying, call of duty feels like gaming with training wheels still on, and everything else is just old. Played Destiny 2 yesterday and looking forward to the expansion this month. 

Activision is decent I guess. Blizzard was decent at one time. But bungie is Epic. Vision, talent, craftsmanship, and care. That’s why they’ll be successful moving into the future. Activision is a big bag of hurt right now. 

As far as app stores, Apple has had it right since the beginning. No need to change what is fair, secure, works very well, snd is above board morally and legally. It’s not right for lawmakers to change the goalposts whenever a competitor (or partner/competitor) wants to push things. Just because an accusation is leveled doesn’t make it true.