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thedba said:

ITGUYINSD said:

Musk can build rockets faster than Apple can build a simple all-in-one computer.  Aluminum chassis, system board and display.  What takes 2 years?

Another Elon Musk fanboy?

Maybe he can buy out a display manufacturer and do miracles with it like he did for Twitter. 

Is saying something positive about Musk a quick trigger for you?  It was sarcasm, and i'm in no way a fan of his.  Relax.

Musk can build rockets faster than Apple can build a simple all-in-one computer.  Aluminum chassis, system board and display.  What takes 2 years?

Xed said:

ITGUYINSD said:

StrangeDays said:

lam92103 said:

So every single PC or computer manufacturer can use modular RAM. Including servers, workstations, data centers, super computers. 

But somehow the Apple chips cannot and are trying to convince us that it is not just plain & simple greed??

Where do I plug RAM into my iPad? iPhone?

Yeah, not a greed thing. It’s an architecture thing. One line of extremely high performing chips for their product line is just smart. 

Charging $200 for an 8GB RAM upgrade is not a "greed thing"?  Charging $200 for a 256GB SSD upgrade is not a "greed thing"?  Those are up to 10X the cost a PC user with modular upgrades pays.  It most certainly is part greed.  But then, Apple couldn't make that $3T valuation, could they?

You're not a finance guy are you?

I know when I'm being ripped off.  And, yes, I own lots of Apple gear.  But I'd never pay $200 for $20 worth of product.  Something about a fool and his money...

StrangeDays said:

lam92103 said:

So every single PC or computer manufacturer can use modular RAM. Including servers, workstations, data centers, super computers. 

But somehow the Apple chips cannot and are trying to convince us that it is not just plain & simple greed??

Where do I plug RAM into my iPad? iPhone?

Yeah, not a greed thing. It’s an architecture thing. One line of extremely high performing chips for their product line is just smart. 

Charging $200 for an 8GB RAM upgrade is not a "greed thing"?  Charging $200 for a 256GB SSD upgrade is not a "greed thing"?  Those are up to 10X the cost a PC user with modular upgrades pays.  It most certainly is part greed.  But then, Apple couldn't make that $3T valuation, could they?

strongy said:

CheeseFreeze said:

Fine, but it's time they up the storage limits in the highest tiers. 

I'm getting close to 2 TB with my family. When I back it up to Synology NAS or something else, all the meta-data will be lost in the process. Apple does not provide an API so I can back it up externally. They are locking me in.

Also, this makes iCloud £1 more than Google's way more advanced Google Drive offering with 2TB. iCloud via the browser doesn't even have a keyword Search! Trying to find documents is a nightmare and requires you to know which folder and subfolders it is in. Apple's cloud strategy is behind competitors.

Transfer iCloud photos and videos to Google Photos - Google Photos Help
hardly locked in if you can do this

These non-Apple "Photos" apps seem to only upload to the cloud when you actually run the app.  So now I have to remember to do that?  iCloud uploads my photos instantly. 

I just tried Amazon Photos as I'm a Prime member and get unlimited storage.  I quickly found that nothing uploads unless you have the app open or switch it to "overnight mode.  Again, something to remember to do and I surely won't.