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The most surprising thing here is that Musk/X/The Platform formery known as Twitter are only taking 10%.

mikethemartian said:

charlesn said:

These predictions never make sense. Since when does Apple update the same products twice in the same year? Exactly right. Never. The Mini just got the M2 AND a complete overhaul in January--so Apple's going to update it again 9 or 10 months later? Ridiculous. The MBPs just got speed-bumped to the M2 in January--and Apple never makes another processor change this soon. I would have guessed that *maybe* the 13" MBA, which has been out just over 1 year, would have gotten the M3 this fall. But with the release of the 15" M2 model, I don't see Apple having the two sizes of MBAs on different processors--I think both models stick with the M2 until maybe next summer. 

I remember back in 2008 they released the Early 2008 MBP and then later that same year the Late 2008 MBP.

2012 they released the 3rd Gen iPad in March, and the 4th Gen in October.

It's rare, but it has happened, especially when there was new technology they wanted to push. The 4 Gen iPad was the first with a Lightning connector and a Retina display.

I think the disappointment of the Touch Bar wasn't replacing the F-keys, or the non-physical Escape key (although that was an oversight), but that no-one did anything with it. Even Apple had problems, simply because it wasn't available in all machines, so anything that the Touch Bar could do had to be do-able by some other method. (Except maybe scrubbing non-skippable ads on YouTube, that was handy, and had no other way of doing it.)

I still think Apple has somewhere in its collective mind an idea to replace the physical keyboard with a dynamic control surface that acts like a keyboard when you need that, or any other input metaphor depending on the needs of the user. This development could be another step towards that, but I also think they're aware of the negative reception of the low-travel keyboards and how difficult reproducing full-travel without physical keys is.

Still, if they do bring back the Touch Bar, I'll probably buy it. I think this time around they may be more able to produce a Magic Keyboard with a Touch Bar as well, so maybe it will start to get some traction with developers. Plus I seldom use the F-keys for anything except when running Windows VMs, which I do less often now I have an actual Windows box.

Now if I could just get them to replace the SD card slots with another Thunderbolt 4 port or two...

seanj said:

It initially looks good… until you see it’s saddled with all these legacy USB-A ports 

If they’d been USB-C then maybe, there’s there’s only one of these!!!!!

USB-A is going to take ages to die. Too much legacy. Still, should be more USB-C ports, and fewer USB-A,

robin huber said:

Will believe big iMac when I see it. Lucy has pulled the ball away one too many times. 

It's the current "Apple TV Set" at this point.