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verne arase said:

geekmee said:

Regardless, we are overlooking the most important part of this report…

Once again, Apple has taken all the oxygen out of the room!!

I think that once the M1x Macs drop there will be a lot of sleepless nights for those manufacturers on the x86 side of the fence.

I was just watching an Intel ad on YouTube where some supposed creative was saying he gamed and created and needed a lot of graphics power which he couldn't get on a Mac <snicker>.

A lot of those ads just won't work any more, and I expect to see pretty amazing graphics performance - without the Wintel copying graphic workload overhead - as well as some impressive battery life.

I disagree regardless of the level of the new Macs performance.  Users lock into hardware brands the way they lock into a political party or religion.  Once they choose to believe something, they stick with it.  And a very large percentage of Wintel users are in offices where users don’t get to choose their own machines and where bulk buys of Dells or whatever are relatively economical. 

Macs are still perceived by many as overpriced and Apple long ago lost its reputation as “it just works”.  

If you think about what most  users do on their computers: email, social media, photo organization and maybe some post processing, and streaming, with a relatively few doing high intensity tasks, the performance granted by the new processors  isn’t needed by most, with the potential exception of better battery life. 

IMO, the new machines might get more people to upgrade their existing Macs sooner, but I don’t think they’re going to attract many converts.

Unfortunately, Mac sales are becoming an ever smaller minority of Apple’s overall business.  

JMO.  

Lots of cheap office space in NYC now since companies have discovered that employees can effectively work from home and new office space was overbuilt even before the pandemic. 

If Apple can't negotiate cheap space there, no reason why they can't find cheap space elsewhere.   The advantage of that location is that it's directly across the street from Penn Station, so good for employees commuting from Long Island or New Jersey.   But there really aren't any decent restaurants or bars directly in that neighborhood. 

One would think Apple would have wanted to be in a "hipper" place, like Soho or parts of Brooklyn.  

AMC Networks is also in that building. 

The problem with all this, aside from what posters have already mentioned is that until it's absolutely guaranteed universal, you still have to carry a passport, driver's license, credit/debit cards, etc.    For Apple to be able to replace a driver's license, they would have to deal with every jurisdiction in the world.   That's a tall order, even just considering the U.S.    And they'll always be the cop who doesn't know that an electronic driver's license is okay and will give you a big hassle over it and you know they'll want to take the phone back to the police car.   

There are lots of retailers near me that don't take Apple Pay.   In fact, I was in a LensCrafters today and they didn't take it.   Last time I was in Home Depot, they stilll didn't take it.   I got ApplePay to work once at a Chase ATM and it's never worked since.    

I have a photo of my medical insurance ID's on my phone.   But the offices I go to won't accept it.  They want the actual card because they put it on the Xerox machine to make a copy.   

When I first started using ApplePay, I went about a week not carrying a wallet, but had issues.   So now I'm still carrying a wallet, albeit a thinner one, and I think it's going to be many years before I don't have to. 

But it would be great as a backup.    My passport once fell out of my shoulder bag inside the X-ray machine.  I was already on the plane when I was notified of such and I had to get off the plane, go back through Security to retrieve the passport, then go back through security and rush back to the plane.   I almost didn't make it.   if they hadn't found it, I would have entered Europe without a passport.  They probably would have sent me back.  

cpsro said:

Only 50?!  Even if it wasn't FB, I'd still avoid this if my meetings had any potential to go beyond 50 participants, either now or later. Why leave anyone out or have to reorganize everyone around another service that can handle the load?

As a former executive at three major companies as well as an independent consultant to others, I can guarantee you that any meeting with anywhere near that number of people will be an unproductive and useless meeting (as opposed to a presentation where the "audience" doesn't need to be seen).  

I also thought that Apple's car project, at least insofar as Apple building their own car was concerned, was dead.  Didn't they get rid of all the staff?  The patent might just be IP protection so they can license (or sue) someone else.  

And while adjustable tint windows would be great, I'm a bit surprised by the emphasis on privacy.  Most, if not all states have rules about how dark the tint can be at least for the front and driver's side window and they issue tickets if it measures too dark.    I've personally witnessed people getting them who have had their windows custom tinted.  Of course, that wouldn't apply to the moon roof.    I don't know what the rules are in Europe, Asia or elsewhere.