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rob53 said:

Not a good article to write. You’re condoning the major alteration of an Apple product for no good reason. Just because someone can do this doesn’t meant it’s something that anyone else should do. 

What a dumb thing to say. It's his Mac Mini, who are you to say he shouldn't modify it? Pretty smart hack.

wdowell said:

'no current plans'

Seems perfectly understandable - Netflix has 200 million subscribers across the world. Vision Pro is initially going to cater to only a TINY fraction of that addressable market - US only, relatively expensive and with production restrains, making it a 500,000 unit (at best) in first-year product if the Sony rumour issues are true. 

From Netflix's perspective, they have enough apps to contend with on TVs, computers and phones to maintain. Why waste engineering resources on pleasing a tiny few if it doesn't bring in additional revenue?

I suspect Netflix will, when Vision is addressing a bigger market developed a headset tier which will cost more.

That and Apple is not making any friends with their 30% commission on things like Netflix subs. Some devs like Netflix used to be honoured to work with Apple, now it's more out of necessity than desire unfortunately.

emcnair said:

I don’t see the point of continuing the 13” MacBook Pro. The M series Apple Silicon chips makes the MacBook Air quite formidable. If you need more power, move up to the 14” or 16” MacBook Pro. Creatives tend to want larger screens. I just can’t imagine a use case where a 13” would be preferred over a 14” for pro users. Not to say that there isn’t a use case. I just don’t see it.

It is significantly cheaper than the 14" model. £800 in fact. I'm surprised it got the M2, I thought it would get neglected as the cheap model like the 21" Intel iMac was; which still had an HDD right up until it was replaced with the M1 iMac.

The 14" MBP is overpriced. It should be around the £1800-£1900 mark IMO, especially since the 15" MBA is only £1399 and the 13" MBP £1349. In fact £1860 is the price of the US 14" MBP, including the UK's 20% sales tax. For some reason though Apple feels the need to charge UK customers £2149 which is the equivalent of $2760. It's way overpriced.

It's called football. The UK doesn't have soccer.

lewchenko said:

The US is in a fortunate position price wise in terms of value. As someone outlined with the the cost of the X model compared to now, and that’s true.  Other countries not so much. It doesn’t matter that the £/$ ratio is largely £1.28 to the $ now (ie quite good) , Apple has hiked prices in the UK and Europe for a while when there is a dip … BUT never lowers them when the rate recovers. 

The end result is prices in Europe that are considerably higher than the US even when you take into account Tax. 

Exactly this. The 14" MBP is $1999 in the US, which is £1556, which with the UK's sales tax would bring it to £1867. However, Apple sells that identical MBP in the UK for £2149, which is $2700 USD. They used to switch the weaker dollar symbol for the pound which was bad enough, now it's a lot worse. It's price gouging. I was going to get the 32GB RAM upgrade for my 14" MBP - but when I saw the price I just didn't bother. It was laughable; £400 ($513) for 16GB of RAM which costs Apple a couple of dollars. They even want £10 for the 96w PSU, if that's not nickel and diming I don't know what is.