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  • New iPad Pro models with larger screens are under development

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    tmay said:
    jcc said:
    What a joke. This is turning that mime into reality. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, back when they first released the iPad, there was a running joke that Apple will "innovate" by introducing larger and larger-sized iPads with no other new features. Well, sounds like it's becoming true. Welcome to the Cook era folks.


    This. Apple has become scared to bring anything new to market
    ...and yet Apple brought the iPad Pro 12.9 with the M1, including an XDR screen and USB 4.0, to market, thereby redefining the iPad, again...
    JinTech said:
    jcc said:
    What a joke. This is turning that mime into reality. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, back when they first released the iPad, there was a running joke that Apple will "innovate" by introducing larger and larger-sized iPads with no other new features. Well, sounds like it's becoming true. Welcome to the Cook era folks.


    Why would it be a joke? As stated by Tmay, it would be well received. It will probably start at $1499 but it would be a true beast of an iPad!
    AppleZulu said:
    jcc said:
    What a joke. This is turning that mime into reality. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, back when they first released the iPad, there was a running joke that Apple will "innovate" by introducing larger and larger-sized iPads with no other new features. Well, sounds like it's becoming true. Welcome to the Cook era folks.


    This. Apple has become scared to bring anything new to market
    Having read these boards for a few years now, it’s hilarious to see the same myopic commentary cycle around over and over again. 

    Apple brings many new things to market. First they’re chided as pointless or useless. Then after a year or two when those same devices have become ubiquitous, the peanut gallery bellyaches about the incremental updates that aren’t earth-shattering brand new products. Then, eventually, the complaints start rolling in that older versions of devices are slow and are the victims of conspiracies of planned obsolescence. Lather, rinse, repeat. 

    On June 29, it will be all of 14 years ago when the original iPhone was released. Fourteen years. Prior to that, there was no iPhone, MacBook Air, iPad, Apple Watch, AppleTV, Apple Pencil, Apple App Store, HomePod, AirPod, M1 Apple Silicon, Airtag, etc. Kids in high school now were all born before any of these things existed. 

    So sure, you keep believing Apple is scared to bring anything new to market. 
    No, you already forgot what Jobs’ first task when he returned to Apple? He drastically cut the numerous models of everything down to a handful. He mantra was focus. There’s a complete lack of focus now. Instead of a couple of iPhone sizes, there are now 5. Instead of a couple of iPad sizes, they’re going for 4. This is the actions of incompetence, not customer choice. Instead of showing the customers what they need, Cook has no clue and thus needs to throw crap into the market to see what sticks.

    When we talked about bringing innovation back, we’re talking about what’s next. What’s next beyond the iPad? Beyond the window dressing of bringing different sized devices and calling it innovation?

    So, for those of you that are as clueless Cook, here’s something for you to ponder. This is a quote from Jobs and is posted on the wall of the Apple campus near the entrance. Cook needs to figure out the answer to this question. What’s next Cook? A decade after Steve’s death, we’re still waiting.

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  • New iPad Pro models with larger screens are under development

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    What a joke. This is turning that mime into reality. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, back when they first released the iPad, there was a running joke that Apple will "innovate" by introducing larger and larger-sized iPads with no other new features. Well, sounds like it's becoming true. Welcome to the Cook era folks.


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  • USA's 2023 Real ID air travel requirement could benefit from Apple's iOS 15 digital driver...

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    dysamoria said:
    It’s not just bureaucratic nonsense; it’s also authoritarian nonsense.

    It does not serve the purpose it purports to because it’s not actually secure. As mentioned by others, the documents required to get it are easily forgeable. Like software copy protection schemes, it only hurts honest people.

    It turns out that I do not have my birth certificate. My parents thought we did because none of us knew that the thing the hospital gives parents is a piece of garbage no better than a gift shop keepsake.

    I was born in the USA. So were both my parents before me, but I can’t get this bulshitty “RealID” and prove I’m a legitimate American without jumping through various idiotic hoops. Some of those hoops are literal catch-22 scenarios. I started trying to get it, and I gave up... as the people who installed this BS intended.

    Aside from acting as a voter suppression effort, it’s just security theatre. Like the TSA.

    Between the ID nonsense and the authoritarianism & abuse of the TSA, I don’t ever fly. My girlfriend lives in California. That’s literally the opposite side of the continent from me. She wants me to visit her there some day so that it’s not just her coming to see me. I understand that want. However, If I don’t manage to fly there and back before the BS “Real ID” requirement, I don’t know how I’m going to manage it. Redouble my efforts to jump through the damned flaming hoops, I guess. All this effort just to subject myself to the police state BS of the TSA... it’s not motivating.

    Luckily, the effort to require “RealID” for voting was struck down in my state.
    You actually just proved that it’s legit as it’s done to filter out the fake citizens who claim all sorts of things but have nothing to back up those claims.
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  • Apple debuts colorful 24-inch iMac with M1, upgraded camera and audio

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    sflocal said:
    I fail to understand the hate people have towards the iMac's "chin".  It really comes across as petty and that chin I think is what differentiates the iMac instead of making it look like some large, generic monitor.  Get over it people. 

    I actually glad there's some kind of chin there, especially with the new color options, it allows some of that color to come to the front of the unit as well.  Good job Apple.

    I do with the specs for the iMac were more beefy.  I used an M1-based MacBook and while I was absolutely floored by the performance, I expected Apple would give the desktop Macs with ASi chips made for desktop-class machines.  I just hope that whatever Apple has in store for the larger 27"+ iMac, it better include more RAM, and much higher spec ASi chips.
    A chin serves no purpose. It should be removed.
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  • How Apple Silicon Macs can supercharge computing in the 2020s

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    This article paints a too rosy picture of the transition. The fact of the matter is that moving away from x86 will end Mac’s “best of both worlds” status. That means no more running Windows software.
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