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michelb76 said:

I'm sure Apple is waiting for AI to mature. I mean, I can totally see some of Coda's features end up in Apple software, but I can also see no mainstream user use them, so no value for Apple there. Siri should/could have a bunch of 'AI' but that's going to need all departments working together, so we won't be seeing that.

Chuckit said:

jas99 said:

I’ll gladly pay it. 

It’s a great deal now, well worth a little higher price. 

If your wallet is too fat for you, lucky you but that’s not the case for most of us. 

I got a kick about Apple saying they started Apple TV at a very low price so they can justify the price hike.  They’re kidding I hope. There’s still plenty of other internet based names out there for free!  My Samsung has a great choices of shows for free.  

Dear Apple, stop overcharging us and then try to justify it with lame excuses.  

Charlie T

slow n easy said:

DAalseth said:

lkrupp said:

Is nomenclature really al that important or even interesting?

Yes, yes it is.

I agree, except for the word interesting. Nomenclature is very important because Max denotes size vs. Ultra sounds like it would be fundamentally different. That would be very very bad for me. I felt so left out when the larger size 12 Pro had more features than the smaller 12 Pro. I don’t know why I need to have the largest size in order to have a fully featured phone. I don’t want a phone that is too big to fit in my front jeans pocket. But I also don’t want a phone that is less than, so I hope this rumor is wrong.

tmay said:

designr said:

tmay said:

ps10405 said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

ps10405 said:

"SpaceX has a group of Starlink satellites that its using to use for its own brand of internet connectivity. The company has hyped this product for years -- and there are on-the-ground installations in Ukraine -- but the overall roll-out has been slow."

What is this paragraph trying to say? That there is a subset of Starlink satellites providing some sort of different service? Because there are over 500,000 Starlink subscribers across the planet--hardly "hype"

There is no argument to be made that Musk has hit his promised targets for the roll-out when the reality is that he is behind by years on his targets. That is the literal definition of "overall roll-out has been slow."

I have no idea what his announced targets have been, but by describing the current subscriber base as simply consisting of stations in Ukraine and ignoring the reality of a half-million subscribers is just really odd. Honestly I think the author is completely unaware of Starlink's subscriber and satellite count and is working with 2021 numbers. 

Oh ffs. The rollout has been slow.

Apple has a billion iPhone user base and growing, so half a million subscribers to Starlink to date looks like a rounding error to Apple. 

Seems like an apples and oranges comparison. No pun intended.

Seems like you failed to mention that there are today, and will be tomorrow, competitors to Starlink, including Amazon, and hence, why Apple isn't moved by a mere half a million subscribers in a nascent market.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/starlink-here-are-6-of-spacexs-biggest-rivals-for-satellite-internet-dominance