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ike22w said:

Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article. 

omasou said:

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I’ll be getting the 14” MBP Max with 64GB and 2TB SSD. I’m tired of the weight of my 2019 MBP 16”. 

I have a MacBook Pro 16 M1 Max and it's an ugly thick ultra heavy brick, when compared to the older Intel MacBooks. I'll be upgrading to a MacBook Pro 14 M4 Max since it has the same processing power as the M4 Max16 and b/c I primarily use it as a desktop w/2 5K monitors and it will be lighter when I do need to carry it around.

Apple needs to drop all the ports other than TB5 so they can thin the battery and body back to where it was to reduce the weight and improve the styling. Really hoping they address this w/the body revision (in 2026?).

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wood1208 said:

We won't forget Steve Jobs legacy and influence on tech world ever but long as Apple have Steve Job's DNA and Tim Cook's superior operational/logistic capability, people will continue loving Apple and buying Apple products.

Maybe. But we certainly do not have Steve Jobs vision and inspiration which is why we end up with duds like the Apple Car and Vision Pro. 

No, we just have a company that is exponentially more successful than it ever was under Jobs's leadership. A company that sits atop the world's most valuable companies, which it NEVER was under Jobs, not even remotely close. And this year, for the 13th year in a row under Cook's leadership, Apple was ranked #1 by Fortune Magazine as the World's Most Admired Company.

Apple's share price when Steve died was approx $14. Today it sits at $226. And it got there based on innovation under Cook, with his chief accomplishment being Apple Services, which didn't exist under Jobs. See, while you're busy bemoaning no Apple Car, Apple Services nearly generates the gross revenue of Tesla (and will surpass it soon) but at 4X the gross profit margin of Tesla. Hmmmm... so which is the better business? Ranked by revenue, Apple Services, if listed as a separate company, would be in the upper 10% of all Fortune 500 companies, and if ranked by profit margin it would be #1 at an eye-popping 70%+. But yeah, nothing to see here. Tim Cook has no vision. 

Then there's Apple Watch, the most successful watch in the 200-year history of watches and the product that established wearable health tracking for the masses as a thing. And AirPods, the most successful earphone/headphone in the whole history of that category, a product that rewrote the book for the world on how people listen to music... but yeah, no innovation under Cook. Both are part of the Wearables category which also didn't exist under Jobs. Apple car wasn't "a dud," it was a product cancelled during development because there was no profitable way forward to justify its continuation--that's called smart business management. 

As for Vision Pro being a dud--that's hilarious for a product that has been in the hands of consumers for all of 32 weeks. Please cite fact-based sources for its "failure" that include Apple's actual internal projection for sales and how actual sales have fallen short of that number. Not unsourced rumors, not guesses from unnamed supply chain sources, actual facts that have appeared in print. I'll wait. Better still, here's a real dud: Meta's reality headsets, which have been on the market for 10 years and continue to lose $1 billion per month.