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fishwhisperer said:

I find it hard to believe that the Mac Pro outsells the Mac Mini and Mac Studio, though the article is not clear i they are counting dollars or units. Anyway, how would;d they know? I don't trust this "guesstimates" when it comes to Apple because of the tight control of Apple on their sales channels. 

This is probably just an artifact of Mac Studio's relative newcomer status.  Mac Pros from 10+ years are still being used.  The Studio has been available for, what, 2 years?

mikethemartian said:

I would like to see a comparison where someone performs the same physics 3D simulation with a dataset larger than 192GB with a maxed out 2023 Mac Pro vs a maxed out 2019. Based on past experience I would expect the 2023 to crash once the memory usage gets close to the max.

Count me naive, but I'd love to know what single simulation requires an in-memory dataset that large.  Not saying they don't exist - I'm just interested in what they are.  And whether they're typically done on a desk-side machine vs. on a supercomputer (e.g. weather modeling).

In general, I think I agree with analysts/posters who think Apple lost sight of who the prime users for their Mac Pro are: video/CGI folks who use the Mac to make movies, ads, etc.  Those folks, I imagine, don't care too much about the base price of the Mac Pros they buy - they care they can get ever more photorealistic CGI done quickly.  I'm pretty sure they bought plenty of external graphics cards to go into their Pros.  But now they can't.  They either make do with what's in the new Pro - or find an alternative.

I think this is going to be one of those times when Apple should have either waited another year or two to release the AR glasses Tim originally dreamed of - or it should have started with less ambitious AR glasses in the first place - eg ones that let the iPhone do all the heavy lifting computationally.  The latter would have made it a lot easier to develop something people wouldn’t mind wearing in public.

Alas, Apple produced a super expensive engineering marvel that nobody outside extreme dorks would wear in public.  The author says that developers are excited about this product - I bet their business bosses aren’t: who would they sell those Vision Pro apps to?  There’s no market - at least not for another year or five.

For accessory makers to succeed - i.e. make money - they need to be able to sell to enough customers.  For the iPhone and Apple Watch that was millions in the first year alone.  This headset won't even reach 100,000 by the end of its first year by most people's estimates - and even that is still 1.5 years away.

Yes, people spending $3,500 want to protect and accessorize their new toy - but finding an accessory maker dumb enough to invest into making accessories for it might be a challenge.

I guess this is Apple's way of keeping you from talking trash about Siri LOL.  Even with "Hey Siri" there have been so many times when Siri activated when I didn't even give that command.  And forget it when someone on TV actually says "Hey Siri" - I've lost count how many times that activated the HomePod's Siri :-(

But the nice thing about 'hope' is that it springs eternal :-)  Siri will surely get better...tomorrow.