MacsWithPenguins

I do understand that people with the Pro XDR display want it. This to them, is almost like buying 5000 dollar accessories for a million dollar car.

I'm waiting for someone to overclock the M1 Max and put watercooling in the Macbook Pro to squeeze ridiculous amounts of power in it ("just because it is fun"). Not needed at all, but it would get people's attention.

darkvader said:

I was hoping that now that they've gotten rid of Ive that Apple would stop making stupid design decisions.  But no, Ive's minions are just as stupid as he is.

They haven’t gotten rid of him — they are contracting him via LoveFrom. No one knows which products he’s involved in, though. Probably not everything Apple makes.

I’m happy with my M1 Mac Mini, but I wonder if Apple can deliver the new computers before 24th of December, given the global supply chain issue. However, that said: if any company can pull it off, it is with Tim Cook’s nr 1 expertise in logistics.

I’m waiting eagerly to see if the other major brands in the fish pond catches the bait or not. Apple convinced Google they needed to buy Android inc, so they could create the Android platform. In the western world (the Asian phone market was extremely different in the early smartphone days and before it), when Nokia, SonyEricsson and Motorola started making smartphones their primary business instead of feature phones, every brand was compared directly with Apple and they looked good — Apple was number one! This time around, Apple can go from a minor market share with a strong customer satisfaction rate, to a jumpstarted market-leading position in the very best, most profitable ARM laptops in the world. If others continue to support Intel and AMD, ignoring ARM, Apple will continue to grow with 1 % market share per year at most.

I hope the market for ARM laptops is flooded.