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This might be a whole new air. If you'll notice carefully, they are not engraving "MacBookAir" on the bottom of the MBA's anymore. I believe the MBA's will become simply MacBooks and an entire new generation of truly lightweight MBA's will be born.

This isn't just about saving a buck and it usually isn't the primary factor for Apple for why they would bring this "in house". It is because the modems that Qualcomm makes aren't good enough for the iPhone and its siblings. Ever notice how long it takes to disconnect and then connect from the WiFi network? Apple does things with excellence, other companies not so much. Expect the best here, because Apple designs things for VERY SPECIFIC PURPOSES, unlike the competition who designs things for "general purposes". Don't think for a second that these modems will only save money, they will work a heck of a lot better. They wouldn't have spent billions of dollars just to save billons of dollars, they do it because they can do it better. The money savings is just a byproduct of their standard of excellence in design and manufacturing.

CrowdStrike, the very company whose flagship product description hails: "Next-gen antivirus and threat intelligence for greater insight into your environment. Automated threat investigations accelerate alert, triage and response." can't protect their customers from the inside. This is actually a joke, and companies pay for it.

Great breakdown. Thank you Kellie. At the end of the day, you gotta be careful who you marry. Even only as an enduser at this point in my life, I wouldn't own anything with Microsoft as a partner. Those days are LONG GONE. Much less run a billion dollar business. This might actually be an incredible tipping point for the corporate business market to move away from Windows.



kellie said:

The primary cause of the outage was due to Crowdstrike shipping a faulty malware template that either wasn’t tested or was accidentally shipped out unknowingly 

the secondary cause is every Crowdstrike customer who blindly allowed the update to occur without doing their own testing and validation.  Sure it would be nice to totally trust the vendor, but they don’t suffer the consequences.  

The third cause of the failure was Microsoft allowing Crowdstrike to run in kernel mode.  So when Crowdstrike choked, it brought down each and every PC. A simple reboot would not fix the problem.  

The fourth cause of the problem is EU regulators who told Microsoft that if they were going to force applications vendors to use a Microsoft API to access the kernel, that would be considered anti-competitive. So Microsoft had no choice but to allow Crowdstrike unprotected access to the kernel.  Apple is allowed to control access to its kernel. 

The Delta CEO is criticizing Microsoft purely to try and squeeze money out of Microsoft.  The CEO is clueless about Windows vs Mac.  He’s just trying to shake down Microsoft. The Delta CEO needs to ask the Delta CIO why he allowed Crowdstrike updates to occur without validation and testing.  Trust but verify as Ronald Regan used to say about the Russians. 

It’s a great machine and I love mine and you love yours….there are no other options for non-Pro consumers, so it’s successful all the way around, no doubt. But let’s get honest here: there’s nothing “Air” about it at 2.7 lbs. that’s why they’ve stopped printing that “MacBookAir” below the screen. It’s just a MacBook, and that’s fine for what it is.