kellie

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. 

Apple needs to develop a back that isn’t made entirely of glass.  Glass is a poor conductor of heat.  Apple needs to improve software efficiency of the OS and the their apps.  Fewer cycles equals less heat.  Improve their cases to an increase thermal transfer.  Air vents Or strategically located metal surfaces to transfer heat and act as a radiator.  Adjust consumer expectations.  You can only put so much processing power in an unventilated tiny space.  Apple should have been able to identify the iPhone 15 heat issues long before they started selling it.  The class action lawyers are already working on a new case. 

First you have to assume CO2 is a pollutant.  In which case you should stop breathing because you’re externalizing the costs of your existence upon me.  There is still much debate over the impact of CO2 on climate change.  I know the plant world is very happy to see more CO2 in the atmosphere.  

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. 

godofbiscuits said:

kestral said:

Governments do not create value and take from the productive through taxes. Parasites.

You're using the internet, drinking clean (for now) water , breathing clean (for now) air, possibly using roadways with the expectation that way finding information is in place and standardized, and that other vehicles on the roadway are similarly equipped with safety and signaling devices and are in reasonable working condition. 

You shouldn’t be so critical of someone who sees the failures of government and the force through which they confiscate money from people through taxation and the threat of imprisonment. Listening to you, it seems you do not see any shortcomings in government.  Less government and less regulation is almost always better than the opposite.  I hope you will realize this as you watch California continue its loss of population, wealth, tax base and grandeur it once had.