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I still find it hard to believe that Apple is going to let the Mac Studio sit with an M2 all the way up to the point when an M5 chip will either be announced or just weeks away.   No matter how small the market may be for Mac Studios and Mac Pro, to let them sit for almost two years between updates these days just makes no sense at all.

I don't remember using ICQ all that much.  But you also mention IRC in the article and that had the capability to be amazing.

I will never forget getting into a chatroom the night of Princess Diana's fatal car accident (August 31, 1997) and there was one poster who was putting up information 15 minutes or so before all the news services at the time on TV and radio.  As the news was not good, people were cursing him.  I got into a private chat and he told me that his brother-in-law worked in the hospital she was brought too.  His server information did show Paris, and when he told me (he didn't want to post it publicly) that she had died, sure enough ten minutes later, the BBC (being simulcast by CBS here in the US) had the official bulletin.

That was the moment I realized just how powerful the Internet was going to be.

Several months ago, I had a customer who had bought a new iPad for her young autistic son. The old one was working, but it was old- had battery issues, etc. He used it to communicate with his parents and teachers through a program that had phrases associated with various icons on the screen. I forget the name of the program. For whatever reason, the program did not back to iCloud and getting the set up to the new machine was an issue. Re-creating the various words and phrases would be time consuming enough, but they also had to be in the same location on the screen or it would completely confuse the child. The parent could not figure out how to transfer the set up to the new iPad and was truly worried that her son was going to lose his means of communication. It took a little bit of digging around but I was able to figure out how to save the set up as a file, then AirDrop it to the new iPad and then get the app to use that as its default file. In any event, it was amazing to see how these devices truly can change a life. I think that often gets forgotten around here or other Apple related tech sites as we nitpick about various features or specifications that most of the public doesn't really care about.

Now they just need to update the Magic Mouse, iMac Keyboards, and Trackpad to USB-C (and yes, make the mouse useable while plugged in).

Wesley Hilliard said:

wdowell said:

I think your headline of Vision Pro being a “big hit” is perhaps stretching reality a bit here.  For all we know the fortune 100 companies may have only bought a single device each to test - so that’s 50 units 

I can see how you arrived at that conclusion, but, and I can't stress this enough, *that isn't how enterprise works*. A company doesn't just buy one. The comments he made throughout earnings made it clear, they are being bought and *used* in enterprise for development and work at these companies.

It's a big deal.

Absolutely right it's a big deal.

I know of one organization (I will obviously not name them here) that bought TEN of them.  I also saw from my own experiences with demos, that business use was going to be big.  I sold one unit to a customer who has a commercial solar energy company.  He didn't even want to bother with a demo.  Said he had read and saw enough about it to know that would be very useful in his line of work.