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  • Apple's 'Mother Nature' sketch was a complete dud, and didn't belong in the iPhone 15 even...

    Chris_PelhamChris_Pelham
    I enjoyed it, too. And while we all know that Apple, or any other corporation doing a similar event, will put their most flattering facts forward in these things, I was actually impressed by what they announced regarding their environmental and clean energy achievements. I prefer this delivery to Tim Cook reading off bullet points, even if a skit takes longer to convey the info. Could there have been some jokes or something thrown in there? Maybe, but that probably would have made it run even longer. 
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  • Apple Silicon M2 vs M3 - looking at the future of the Mac

    Chris_PelhamChris_Pelham
    I find it hard to believe that Apple might debut the first M3 3nm chip in the 13" MacBook Pro and thereby outclass the 14" and 16" MacBook Pros, which are surely much more popular with professionals, or in a Mac mini rather than the Mac Studio or Mac Pro, because it would make the product line specs look funny. I can believe they might try reinvigorating the iMac line with the new chips, especially if they simultaneously launch a larger iMac or bring back the iMac Pro.  I guess the main reason to believe that Apple might start with more consumer oriented machines would be that Apple would want to wait until it has the M3 Pro, Max, and Ultra chips ready before updating the higher-end machines.  They could wait and update all of them at once, but maybe they need to start pumping out the basic M3s first to get the manufacturing process down. 
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  • Apple Silicon will force industry to reconsider use of Intel chips, says ex-Apple exec

    Chris_PelhamChris_Pelham
    How many PC laptops were sold last year? 170 - 190 million or so? 
    And Apple maybe 15 million? 
    But Apple also sold about 50 million iPads.
    So Apple really has about 1/3 of the portable computing market share, and that is big enough to indicate that there is a truly MASS market for their products and services. It’s not a niche. There may always be a good sized market for certain niches but improving the battery life and speed of its portable products and its ability to refresh its products more frequently can only make them more attractive and sell even better IMO. 
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  • Apple was cautious when it shifted to Intel, and an ARM Mac migration will be no different...

    Chris_PelhamChris_Pelham
    Hmm, there are about 850 million active Windows 10 users and about 1.5 billion IOS users and another 100 million + MacOS users last I checked. So Apple has about double the number of active users. While Microsoft’s situation and outlook remain strong, I’d say they have been and need to be reacting to Apple more than vice versa at this point. It is also increasingly advantageous to develop for Apple machines. 

    Given how big and wealthy Apple is, isn’t it entirely possible that they could keep Intel machines on the market as long as they want, if there is a need? Last time they switched from Motorola to Intel pretty quickly because Motorola wasn’t coming out with chips. Intel will remain in the game for the foreseeable future and will continue making competitive desktop chips I imagine. And if even their desktop chips become uncompetitive, then I don’t think people will miss them so much, will they?


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