elijahg

Spreading the CPU updates over years makes it seem like the devices that are last to get upgraded are getting an old processor. The top-of-the-line Mac Studio is still on the M2, but the M4 is in the Pad Pro wherein it's nigh-on pointless.

Really interesting article. I'm really looking forward to trying out Apple's AI, will be interesting to see how it performs especially with things like Siri.

danox said:

elijahg said:

I find it a bit weird that they're spacing out the Mx upgrades across the product range over such a long period.  Like why is the Mac Studio still on the M2 whilst the iPad has made it to the M4? The iMac was the first to get the M1, but last to lose it then jumped to M3. It doesn't make sense. I would say it might be because the Max/Ultra takes longer to refine, but then the iMac could have gone to the M2, but skipped it entirely.

It’s stupid Apple upgrades the iPad to the M4 and lo and behold sales and go up, the same could happen if they upgraded some of the other Mac’s, which haven’t been upgraded in years, it’s funny on how Apple can offer an upgraded computer product and sales go up on that product iPads weren’t dead they were just neglected by Apple, and I believe the same applies to the iMac and the Mac Pro lines of computers.

Now is the time when so, many of their competitors and near tech competitors are fumbling and bumbling at this current time frame Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, AMD, CloudStrike and Google in many areas have years of catch up in the hardware and software part of the business in comparison to Apple. That is if you put value on smooth integration of software and hardware working together?

It is really weird how long they leave products between updates. I sort of get it with products that have big changes, but taking 3 years to upgrade the CPU without changing anything else is just plain stupid. It's like they have one team working across the whole Mac division, and they get rotated around each different Mac.

I find it a bit weird that they're spacing out the Mx upgrades across the product range over such a long period.  Like why is the Mac Studio still on the M2 whilst the iPad has made it to the M4? The iMac was the first to get the M1, but last to lose it then jumped to M3. It doesn't make sense. I would say it might be because the Max/Ultra takes longer to refine, but then the iMac could have gone to the M2, but skipped it entirely.

Don't be so sure this isn't adding ads to *all* tiers. News+ has ads, so why not AppleTV+?

Apple filling everything with ads really devalues Apple's brand; especially since there is data collection going on which is the antithesis to privacy. Steve tried baked in ads once way back in 1997 with Sherlock, it went down like a lead balloon and he vowed never to do it again. Cook of course is so obsessed with profit above all else that he's willing to devalue the brand and piss off paying subscribers by stuffing ads everywhere.

I mentioned previously that I unsubbed from Apple News+ partly because of the ads, which meant I also dropped Apple One as it was no longer worth it. Apple went from getting £450 per year to £109 for Apple Music only, just so they could make a couple of cents from some shitty ads.