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  • M3 MacBook Air update due in March, M3 Mac Pro in late 2024

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    It’s weird to see stupid people complaining that the M3 isn’t a good reason to ditch a 2 year old iMac.

    Seriously, what is wrong with people? You wanna upgrade your Mac more often than you upgrade your iPhone?

    the M3 iMac is a fantastic upgrade for lots of people with 2015 and 2017 iMacs and older models heck it’s a great upgrade for 2019 iMac owners if they really want to. But it’s unlikely that people will want to abandon their M1 iMacs until the M5 comes along. Even then , I suspect a lot of people will hold onto M1 Macs until they straight up die given how well they perform. 
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  • Senator Warren wades into Apple's Beeper fight with irrelevant antitrust rhetoric

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    Warren has some good positions on some things, but she seems to think that you can’t become a big player without abusive business practices. 

    Apple may not be perfect but they’re better than everyone else in big tech. 

    iMessage has a ton of security stuff going on on the back end that Warren doesn’t understand. And that’s a shame senators should want to learn about complicated things like security, but she clearly doesn’t. 
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  • 'Several people' could be the next Apple CEO, reveals Tim Cook

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    I suspect it will be important for Tim to hand it over to somebody who has been there a long time and ideally knew Steve. Not that I think Tim is trying to necessarily do Apple Steve’s way (I think some of the more fashion aimed products are things Steve might not have liked, and I think it’s worth noting that Free Form as far as I remember is the first iLife/Work type app we’ve gotten in years and years and years. 

    But at the same time, I think Tim would probably still want someone who at least understands what it was like to work with Steve and can try and bring out the best aspects of that and leave behind the worst aspects. 

    Personally, I suspect it’ll be Craig. Either that or it somebody who internally they know is reliable but they haven’t put in front of cameras much. 
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  • Google's RCS messaging is coming to iPhone in 2024

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    I’m a little surprised by this, but wouldn’t be surprised if this was Apple’s way of getting around the EU’s gate keeper law, they’ll just say messages supports RCS therefore if RCS meets the EU’s requirement so does the messages app. 
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  • Apple killed Android plans for Apple Watch

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    I suspect a big part of it was also the expected cost of supporting Apple Watch on Android.

    you gotta keep in mind a huge chunk of Android users are they very bottom of the barrel. When you get to the people who always want the cheapest crap, providing the level of support Apple wants gets impossible, because a lot of those people are just stupid. (I know I worked for an ISP. The people who had Acers never wanted to admit that their cheap assed Acer was the root of their problem.)

    I think Apple dodged a bullet. The people who have Apple Watch as an accessory for their iPhone love it. But given that they won’t be making it a separate product it is kinda funny that they still have a Watch app. You don’t have a HomePod app or an AirPods app. 
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