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M3 Ultra Mac Studio rumored to debut in mid-2024 -- without a Mac Pro
Apple shows no signs of wanting to offer products that compete with the ultra high end systems used for the most advanced animation and video editing functions. They don’t want to offer systems that are open and extensible. They certainly don’t want to provide a means for Nvidia or AMD to inject their gpus into the Apple ecosystem. Apple wants absolute control of their platform to optimize revenue and profits. The only upgrade path Apple wants to offer is chucking old systems and buying new systems. You can’t even add memory or storage to any Apple product these days. For a company that hypes their environmental friendliness, their product strategy does not overall result in friendly environmental impacts. They tout use of recycling. The best recycling is getting maximum life out of each product they sell through design and upgrade options vs recycling a three year old Mac book pro because the ssd failed and there’s no way to repair it.
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White House is tracking Apple Watch ban with no sign of intervening
Apple is the gorilla in the room. They have big money and big political influence. Apple is not the squeaky clean, earth and LGBTQ friendly, wholesome company a lot of people think they are. I have no doubt they’ve appropriated IP invented by others. But the high costs to defend IP is a challenge for small companies. So Apple gets away with it. Apple is a competitive beast, but they do their best to keep that hard, rough and tumble personality out of the public eye. They don’t want to give in to Masimo’s demands because they don’t want the bad PR of having been proven to have stolen IP, they don’t want to encourage other companies who feel they’ve been wronged by Apple and certainly Apple’s corporate ego prevents them from surrendering. -
M3 Ultra could have up to 80 graphics cores
The M1 architecture is the same as the M3. There’s no reason Apple can’t support the M1 as long as it supports the M3ApplePoor said:It seems all four M1 chips had nearly the same single core performance. We saw that all four of the M2 chips also had similar single core speeds and there was about a 15% increase in the average number. So, for me, there was no incentive to upgrade to the M2 series. The first three of four M3 chips repeat the average single core speed concept of the M1 and M2. But there was a larger percentage increase in the average single core speed over the M2.
I am intrigued that a M3 Max MacBook Pro can now be acquired that is nearly as powerful as my M1 MacStudio (128GB and 8TB SSD) with the same amount of memory and SSD in just two generations. I thought I had really future proofed my M1 MacStudio with those top go the line options. And the fully configured MacBook Prop price is fairly close to my MacStudio price.
I thought we had a good performance boost going from the 68030 in my IIci to the 68040 in my IIfx. The Intel years were snoozers in terms of performance increases over time.
But I am concerned how many more rabbits are in the hat for this M series chip to continue this pace of spec improvements. The crowd that needs and can afford the top models is far smaller than the more modest needs and prices group. With the lower operating temperatures of the M series computers, one could expect much longer service lives of the M devices.
Like the iPhone, the incremental changes are getting smaller and the crowd seems to be wanting to spread their acquisition cost over more years.
So could Apple turn off operating system support for the M1 series at some future time like they will Intel chips? And how many generations of M series will be supported?
The computing power necessary for the average non-pro users is already exceeded. One usually does not see a Ferrari V8 in a Karman Gaia. -
Apple pauses iOS 18, macOS 15 work to stomp bugs now
Where the marketing people go wrong is in the belief that only new features sell product. Which isn’t completely wrong. But you can make your existing customers much happier by stabilizing what’s already been developed, enhancing performance and improving the ease of use of existing capabilities. Happy customers tell their friends who might then be convinced to switch to Apple products. The latest iOS 17 and iPhone 15 overheating issue is a good example of something that should have been discovered in beta testing. Having a significant issue like that right on the release a new hardware product is embarrassing if not inexcusable. I’d also suggest Apple make public the list of bugs that have been identified and let customers add additional issues or comments on specific issues. Open up the process and let your customers help to guide your efforts.
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Apple suffers fourth consecutive quarter of declining sales, beat Wall Street anyway
Apple is a mass market consumer company. You can’t compare them to Rolex and LV. The market is giving Apple an adjustment because the stock trades at a huge P/E ratio and they are struggling to grow revenue. You also just discount the effects of inflation. That’s a huge factor and forces people to focus their spending on necessities and hold on to any tech they already have. Your line about shopping at Walmart if you don’t have any more money shows you to be a person with no insights and a lack of empathy.zone said:This is so dumb and of course, an overreaction to get people to give up their shares. Apple sales are only down because of the pandemic and the abnormal demand. Also, analyst forgets I guess about crazy inflation on other goods which cause people to have less money. Seems like an amazing quarter to me. Image any other tech company having a quarter like this? Also such a manipulated stock. All other tech companies are terrible but we give them a pass because they stink. As far as Apple prices they are not expensive compared to other high-quality products. No one complains about the cost of an LV purse, or a Rolex, or any other high-end brand. Shop at Walmart and buy crappy tech products if you don't have any more money. I'll stick with the best...
