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Maybe if the police stopped spending time on non-violent marijuana arrests and other non-addictive drugs, they would have the resources to go after more legitimate police work like finding stalkers.

The anti-stalking features in the AirTags are just highlighting how big of an existing problem we already had with other devices that don’t carry these features.

This might be accurate for one iteration of the cycle. It will just happen when Apple feels it’s time for a new chip. I doubt it will be very consistent. It will probably align somewhat with when other components are ready. Apple isn’t on a regular refresh cycle for Mac like they are for the iPhone. I think it will end up averaging a consumer variant one year followed by pro-variant the next year with a lot of inconsistency on when they actually deliver. Apple wants to replace their lineup with Apple silicon, so right now they may feel a bit rushed to get all their machines replaced with comparable Apple Silicon ones. I could see them wanting to get a M2 4-chiplet package out sooner rather then later for a high-end skew of the Mac Pro as soon as possible after the M2 launches.

cpsro said:

If it's premium priced, it mightn't have much content.

Since almost all existing VR content is written with Unreal Engine and Unity, ports will be trivial. It will likely be powerful enough to run desktop-class VR content, so it may have more content then the Quest headset. I'm also not sure that casual use is Apple's focus with this headset. I think they just want to get something out for creators and developers. A more consumer friendly headset would likely come later. If developers release for this headset, they will be better prepared for the next one. I would expect if comfort levels can be achieved that these devices will also be used for non-VR content which could make the price point easier to swallow.

It makes a lot of sense to leave it consistent. If it starts at 30% then drops to 15%, you still need to charge as if it were 30% since you can’t pass on those savings to the end user after a year.

GeorgeBMac said:

This guy is fighting the wrong war.

His battle is not to win Apple back (they're gone forever from the world of x86).

The war he is fighting is x86 versus ARM based processors.

That's a war in which Apple will increasingly be just another player as more and more computers and servers are switched over to ARM based processors and leave the world of x86 behind.

It's analogous to the makers of carriages after the internal combustion engine challenged the horse.   Many fought it and went out of business -- while others welcomed the change and stuck an internal combustion engine in their carriages making "horseless carriages".

I suspect Intel is looking at all of its options right now.

Right. The x86 architecture has scalability issues that ARM and RISC-V don't have.