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Rayz2016 said:

There’s one company that makes just about every pair of spectacles on the planet. The markup on eyewear is literally eye-watering. 

And you never hear about it. 

Indeed, my sister used to work at a retail opticians, they paid $8 for some frames and sold them for well over $100.

Yep, the 32” iMac will likely have a 6k display. Here’s hoping.

I’ve looked and looked and can’t find a monitor that would satisfy me coming from a 5K Retina iMac.

I do think the 24” iMac is very, very good value, when you compare the cost of a comparable Mac Mini with Apple Keyboard, Apple Mouse - the 4.5K display with good speakers and webcam is only costing about $450 which makes it a bargain to get a retina display for that.

It’s interesting how Apple is marketing the chips of these new devices.
Macs with M1 and now an iPad Pro with M1 - I assume they will simply not use/disable any Mac-specific parts of the SOC.

Will the M1 be used in the next iPhone?
Will the M1 eventually be used in lower-end iPads?
Will the M1 be used in a new gaming focused AppleTV?

We would normally expect an M1X and then an M2 - i.e. an M2 around the time of the next iPhone.
Will an M1 with more cores be called M!X or M2? This report seems to indicate the latter.
However, they may decide to stick with the name M1 for an M1 variant that happens to have more cores.
So low-end device might have an M1 with 8-8 (cpu-gpu) cores and higher end devices might have an M1 with 12-16 (cpu-gpu) cores for example.

It will be interesting to see how this pans out.

It’s far more sensible to but the machine you need and when you outgrow it sellit and  buy a new machine that meets your new needs.
If you aren’t wealthy enough to buy the machine you need from the start then you need to buy a cheap windows alternative.
Macs hold their re-sale value really well generally so there is little to be lost by upgrading by trading up.

I now think it would be good for Apple to get ahead of this and state explicitly and loudly that developers are free to create web-apps and put them in their own web-app store - that these apps do not need to use Apple payment methods, have no Apple commission or require review by Apple or even an Apple developer account to create them. Apple is not preventing anyone creating web-app software to run on an iOS device - as this would be impossible.