sdw2001

I doubt it since every phone I’ve had since the iPhone 6 has the dimming screen “feature” when the phone starts to heat up. That can just be from normal use…. not even in direct sunlight.   have it in sunlight on a summer day, and it becomes illegible.  Some have been better and some have been worse but my iPhone 14 Pro Max still does it. So I have my doubts about their heating “fix.”  

williamlondon said:

Think touchless iPad with attached keyboard/trackpad running a version of touchless iPadOS in a (durable) clamshell form factor.

Respectfully, that sounds absolutely terrible. It is a completely un-Apple design.  You’re taking the worst parts of all worlds and putting them together.  What could go wrong??

it is extremely unlikely Apple does this in my opinion. The iPad is already quite dominant in education. Apple doesn’t need a new notebook to go after the crappy Chromebook. Why compare MacBook sales with chromebooks? The iPad serves the same purpose and almost always has a keyboard case in education.  

avon b7 said:

sdw2001 said:

I’m not a fan of the right to repair movement. Just wait until people start blowing themselves up because they don’t know what they’re doing.  Also, customers make an active choice when they buy a product. I don’t know where this so-called “right” comes from, but they have to be allowed to repair their own product. I suppose I could see a provision where the manufacturer is not allowed to withhold original parts. As for Apple, they are supporting this because it’s good PR. Apple is genius when it comes to knowing which way the wind is blowing.  

This is why, on the EU side at least, battery replacement is required to be a simple action for laymen and using freely available tools. 

Design for repair. 

The 'right' is something that has been eroded over time. It was basically there and industry has worked to eliminate it. 

Legislation is a way to bring it back. 

The point is it’s not a right.   Never was, never will be.  It’s just another big government, nanny state provision.  A right is God-given and natural.  

jpellino said:

So Twitter was the preeminent microblogging platform, doing well enough to have shareholders getting earnings.
Musk buys it and starts pulling every lever he can find, many of which were clearly marked DO NOT TOUCH THIS LEVER.
Now the company is bleeding value, invisible to the public, and got its lunch eaten by Meta in less than a week of competition. 
Oh, and a new half-billion liability based on Lever #2.

Remind me how this reflects on the legendary genius of Musk?

Twitter was an absolute disaster and a fraud. That’s why he almost canceled the deal. It was a bloated company that was all smoke and mirrors. It’s going to take a while for even him to turn it around.

I think Apple quite simply painted themselves into a corner on the Mac Pro. When they started the transition, they had no issue with MacBooks, the iMac, etc.  But the Mac Pro was something I think they knew would be an issue, but had 2-3 years to figure out.  I suspect the Mac Studio was the result of not having solved the problem in time…that being the entire concept of the Mac Pro wasn’t congruent with the integrated architecture they had produced. Frankly, I think Apple looked at the problem and size of the true pro market, then designed this because they promised they would.