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  • Intel wants to manufacture Apple Silicon

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    Maybe not A or M series chips, but it seems that Apple will have a lot more different chips they want to get manufactured.


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  • Brazil fines Apple $1.9M for not including charger in iPhone 12 box

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    lkrupp said:
    fred1 said:
    This is nuts. Companies don’t have the right to include or not any accessories with their products? Or to decide what their warranty covers? What’s next, the state determining prices?
    Be careful what you talk about. Price controls are the first step to a centrally managed economy and I’m positive they are being discussed and promoted by people like AOC. Remember the Soviet Union's ‘Five Year Plans’ that always failed?  
    I googled AOC price control, there’s a long way from controlling price gouging by the healthcare industry and by government contractors to U.S. government determining the price of iPhone.

    Unrelated hyperbole. So don’t worry, if the U.S. will ever have a centrally controlled economy it won’t happen in our or children’s lifetime. That kind of utopian (or dystopian depends who you’re asking :)) society only exists and will for a very long time in Sci-fi.

    edit: missing parenthesis
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  • Brazil fines Apple $1.9M for not including charger in iPhone 12 box

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    fred1 said:
    This is nuts. Companies don’t have the right to include or not any accessories with their products? Or to decide what their warranty covers? What’s next, the state determining prices?
    That’s why consumer protection agencies exist, in general a single consumer has no voice or the means to demand justification in a contested situation. Companies have a lot of freedom, but when they suddenly change practices this kind of thing happens. I don’t have to agree with the reasoning in this case, but without consumer protection we’d be worse off.

    Warranty is not only written by companies, some countries have stronger warranty policies on different products that companies are held to uphold. 

    There’s a long way from holding companies in check to determining the prices of their products. But looking at the drug prices in the U.S, I’d say that it might be necessary in extreme cases for necessary stuff that someone needs to live. Also price fixing by competing companies is illegal pretty much everywhere. So yeah, countries take notice on prices, and it’s not always a bad thing. 

    I’d bet that Apple was prepared for this (Not the first time this stuff happened in Brazil, I think) and didn’t get hurt, they still have options to not pay the fine as was stated in the article.
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  • Apple Pro Display XDR 'game changer' for 'Jumanji' studio

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    Rayz2016 said:
    Now, are finally getting who this equipment is aimed at?
    Yea! Clearly me!


    ... and those who actually need view color correct HDR content, either for production or review. 

    But still, me!
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  • Editorial: Does Apple have the mettle to fight for Mac success in the Pro market?

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    sflocal said:
    Most folks - and this is a proven fact - will never open up a computer once the initial purchase is made.  Fact.  Been beaten to death multiple times.

    Might be statistically true. “Proven fact”, is hyperbole in this case. And yet, most people might be just the biggest segment of all users or 51% of users, I don’t know the statistics, but I can see anecdotally that it makes sense. 

    When that time does come to upgrade, from a cost perspective - whether you like it or not - it's better to buy a new machine with newer technology, then to mix-and-match old tech, with new tech in an expandable system and not get the entire benefit.  Fact.
    That’s an opinion, not a fact. CPU and memory hasn’t evolved the same speeds GPUs have. A high end CPU 10 years ago is still quite usable, mid to lower tier in today’s level. In GPU aspect 4-5 year old cards are comparatively scored.  Motherboards generally age very well, pciExpress 3.0 is about 10 years old and 4.0 has only just to come out. 

    So buying just one piece of hardware that ages faster than replacing the whole thing is way more cost effective. Or just change a broken part instead of replacing the whole system... It just makes more sense, economically and environmentally. And all that was an opinion too. 


    So give it a rest.  We all would love an "affordable" Mac Pro, but the reality is for most of Apple's customers, an iMac, or Mini works just fine.  Folks like you represent such a small blip on Apple's P&L that it's more a rounding-error than anything else.  
    This is one of those: “your needs are not as important as most of ours”, and you even say that “we would love an affordable Mac Pro”.

    I don’t see the problem, he’s not happy about something, Apple makes products, maybe they’ll hear and provide so there might be a “affordable” Mac Pro we all would love.

    Apple products have such a long lifespan - and better resale value than the competition.   They last 5+ years for most folks.  WHY on earth would someone want to upgrade certain components when the rest of the tech is technically obsolete?

    Just let it go.

    Components age at different paces, they degrade in different paces, why on earth would someone not want to upgrade a certain component that might be substantially worse than the one coming out next year, if it is an option? No we all won’t even if it was an option. And it might even lengthen the long lifespan even more. That’s more bang for buck. 

    It makes sense, that’s why people don’t just let it go. And I don’t understand why it’s offensive or unpopular idea/opinion not to be supported. 
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