Rogue01

Mike Wuerthele said:

avon b7 said:

I'll wait to hear the full story from all sides but my first thought was 'Think Secret'. 

AppleInsider got sued a few years before ThinkSecret, and won too.

In this climate, though, it'll be interesting to see how this goes.

And ThinkSecret did not win their lawsuit and got shut down for the leaks they posted on their website.  I miss the days when people were actually surprised during a keynote when a new product was released, because none of it was leaked beforehand.

Poaching AI talent from Apple?  Really?  Has Meta never used Siri?  Are they following the disaster of Apple Intelligence?  One would think poaching from Apple for AI talent would be the last place anyone would look.  Or, these individuals are experts in AI, but Apple's ridiculous restrictions are preventing them from demonstrating their expertise, so they happily bailed and went elsewhere.  I am not holding my breath on Apple 'fixing' Siri, especially when they claim it won't be fixed until late Spring 2026.  Apple is behind in AI and continuing to fall behind in AI.

So it is almost a 10mm brick in your pocket for over $2,000, and like everything else that folds, there will be a crease down the display after use.  You can't avoid it.  Apple did not invent some magical display that won't show a crease over time.  I would rather look right at my phone without having to unfold it every single time.  I bet you have to unfold it every time you want to take a picture to see what is on the screen through the camera.  So now you will look like the fools holding up an iPad to take pictures.

pulseimages said:

I wish Apple would put in a better effort in making this a real serious gaming platform. 

People into gaming use Xbox, PS5, or Switch 2.  Those are the serious gaming platforms.

9secondkox2 said:

the iPhone SOC is for the phone. 

Don’t weaken the Mac just to have an even cheaper model. 

Interesting comment.  You are right, the A chip is for the phone, and the iPad.  Yet Apple continues to waste M chips in iPads, and hobble it with iPadOS.  Weaken the Mac for a cheaper model.  Yet the iPads with M chips overpower the iPad to make a more expensive model, but iPadOS 'cheapens' the M chip because it doesn't fully support the performance of the chip.  Yet Apple continues to make these iPads.

The performance of the A18 Pro is somewhere between the M2 and M3 chip.  If Apple wanted to make a lower cost Mac, they should just use older M chips.  They already do that now, the problem is, they don't lower the cost.  Hello Mac Pro?  2 years old and still using an outdated M2-based chip for $7,000.  The Mac mini development kit used the A12Z Apple Silicon chip because the M chip is based off the A chip.  So the A18 Pro can run macOS, and it would already be faster than the M1 chip.  The limitation would be memory and storage.  But the A18 Pro can support more memory, but Apple doesn't utilize that in a phone, because iOS apps don't need it.  In a Mac, it would likely have 16GB for Apple Intelligence.

If this Mac does become reality, it just further proves Apple's weird roadmap.  iPads using M chips before the Mac, Macs using outdated M chips while others get updated, and now possibly a Mac using an A chip?  Talk about further confusing customers.