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Hands on with Apple's new Pro Macs -- Mac Pro & Mac Studio with M2 Ultra
In three years a MacBook Air will still have zero internal PCIe expansion.Draco said:In three years, a MacBook Air will be faster than this machine.
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Plugin now required to use most Pantone Colors in Adobe products
Ink & paint are both subtractive. Additive is monitors, projectors or other mixes of colored light. Think of subtractive starting with pure white light and subtracting colors as the light reflects off the colors to match the reference.13485 said:
Unfortunately, ink is an additive color, paint is a subtractive color. Mixing would be problematic.ravnorodom said:Have Adobe purchasing RAL or DIC color system right off and make it their own. Hell, even get Sherman Williams or Benjamin Moore on board and figure out something. Adobe squashed QuarkXpress before with InDesign and I think they can do it again to Pantone.
Regardless, as long as you have a LAB value that matches your reference swatch, it's no more problematic than Pantone. The trick is getting a printer to mix custom ink colors to match non-Pantone colors. Mixing pantone inks is a well-known process. Mixing custom colors is trickier.
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Apple's record $81.4 billion Q3 obliterates Street expectations
@greginprague Thanks for the response. I was wondering, specifically, have you ever sold any of that AAPL to keep your AAPL holdings at 40% (or some other target)? Or have you let it organically expand its % of your portfolio due to its inherently faster value growth? I'm at ~20+% AAPL now. I have an advisor, but make my own decisions and operate my portfolio directly, so he truly "advises" and I have thus far ignored his AAPL advice and continue to hold a disproportionately large amount of AAPL.greginprague said:
AAPL makes up more than 40% of all liquid assets. The other 60% is very well diversified. I make my own investment decisions, so no one is pressuring me to sell.polymnia said:
Out of curiosity, what does that do to your portfolio? Do you sell periodically to keep your speculative AAPL holdings within a particular % of your portfolio? I haven’t sold yet, but my advisor has brought it up.greginprague said:
Or at least early 2009, only 50.5x here.bloggerblog said:
Some of us since 1998polymnia said:
I'm long into AAPL since 2011. This dip happens more often than not after earnings. I'm happy to see the earning reaction dip is smaller than it usually is.lkrupp said:
As always, Wall Street doesn’t care about what you did today, it’s about what it thinks you will do in the future. And the Covid-19 delta variant has thrown a monkey wrench into the financial crystal ball, all because 50% of the population are dumb, ignorant morons. There’s also a study out that reveals 1-in-5 believe the vaccines contain microchips. That means 20% of the population are certified idiots.fallenjt said:And AAPL after hour trading drops over 1%. What kind of WS bullshit is that?
I see nothing in this report to make me reconsider my long position in AAPL. Except that my Financial Advisor tells me I own too much AAPL. It's not my fault it has 20x-ed while the rest of my portfolio has plodded along at more or less average returns. Probably should rebalance my holdings one day, but my Spidey sense says today is not that day.
I have a financial adviser story that put me off of advisors entirely until recently: Around 2002 I had a very small 401(k) rollover which a different advisor helped me with. The iPod was just taking off and as a longtime Mac using graphic designer, I was already a believer. I got a sense that Apple might be at the beginning of something big. I asked her about investing some of the rollover into AAPL and she said she could do that but that it was a crazy idea. I followed her advice. Then I watched my crumby IRA limp along while AAPL skyrocketed.
With some perspective after managing my own portfolio for a couple of decades, I've come to realize an advisor is a great asset, but that I am the captain of my financial ship and the advisor is my helmsman: I say where I want to go, he suggests a course, I might change some details, maybe even grab the wheel myself for some critical maneuvers, but in the end, I still get value from the suggestions even if I don't use all of them.
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New iPad Pro models with larger screens are under development
Jobs also told Tim Cook to chart his own path.jcc said:tmay said:
...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...indieshack said:
This. Apple has become scared to bring anything new to marketjcc 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.
JinTech said:
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!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.
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.AppleZulu said:
Having read these boards for a few years now, it’s hilarious to see the same myopic commentary cycle around over and over again.indieshack said:
This. Apple has become scared to bring anything new to marketjcc 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.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.
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.
Steve’s decision to drastically cut product was informed by a LOT of VERY DIFFERENT business realities. Apple was facing insolvency then, with far too many products that only really had a chance to sell to Apple die hards of the time. Apple is now facing the high expectations of a nearly ubiquitous customer base. It is quite reasonable for Apple to take a different strategy now.
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New iPad Pro models with larger screens are under development
Please, bigger tablets! At 15-16” there will be few reasons for artists to select a MacBook Pro now that the software is beginning with to catch up. I’m in that camp. I’d love an iPad with the screen size of an MBP with the pencil and all that unlocks creatively.
