wallym

My engineering brain says that the hinged area is always going to be a problem.  A buddy has a samsung fold something.  He loves it, but I never can get any info from him regarding what it does that is special.  He is in the "anybody but apple" ideology.

I always question if the world will buy a more expensive iPhone, and each year I am proven wrong, so I'll bet that there is someone out there that will buy it in quantity.  I bought a top of the line iPhone 15 pro max, so I know I am one of the suckers.

RAM is like closet space, there is no such thing as "too much."

From what I have read out in the semiconductor area, the problem is power utilization on the apple designed modem chips.  This is hard stuff to do.  you want fast.  You want low power.  Everybody's stuff is going to work great outside of my office.  The problem is what happens in the mountains, or on the autobahn/interstate, or in some country without the best infrastructure.  I can imagine that getting this right is hard and takes a long time.  if it doesn't work right for qualcomm, that is a major blow for them.  If it doesn't work right for apple, oh well, another year of buying qualcomm chips.

Funny thing in this is that when I got my 2018 iphone, I think it had an intel modem 4g chip in it, and I noticed that I got some better performance in a few areas where I had had problems before.  I never knew if that was because of the phone chip or improved provider service in the area.  Now that I have 5g, I'm on 5g just about everywhere except in a few mountainous areas.  I recently have been driving thru Appalachian mountains in tn/nc and I've been getting 5g pretty much all the way thru.

Great.  I can think about replacing my 2018 Macbook Pro running intel.  I bet that Apple will mark my mbp as obsolete this fall.  I like the Intel chips, but Intel screwed the pooch and Apple is on to Arm.

I'm sure that oled screens are great and awesome.  So is the screen on my $449 ipad.  I just don't see where the marginal value of an oled screen will drive a higher net profit on ipads.  Assuming the galaxy tab s8 devices have oled screens and are at current comparable prices, I don't see how the ipad pro models can justify a 60-80% price increase in many people's eyes.  yes, some will buy it.  however, I think the price increase also forces people down to the ipad air or regular ipad.