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This is quite honestly one of the most cynical, disingenuous, and pathetic ad campaigns I've seen in my life. It's just...sad. I love how they hand-pick "PCs" to make their comparisons, from the thousands of models available, and seemingly take credit for those specific features (like a screen on the keyboard) while pretending thats some kind of generic PC laptop, while in reality its a single poor-selling model that few people would actually want. 

Anyway, this is the only time when Mx chips will be even in the same universe as intel chips. M2 chips will blow the gap so wide open, that no amount of engineering specific benchmarks can save intel. 

darkvader said:

Hi Homepod, this is iPod Hi-Fi!  Welcome to the discontinued overpriced garbage club!

It was a stupid product when it was new, it never improved, the price never dropped to anything even remotely close to reasonable, Apple discontinued it. 

Why would anybody be surprised?  It was a failure from minute 1.

What an idiotic post. 

The vast, vast majority of reviews proclaimed the sound quality to be incredible, and the price was actially resonable when compared to other speakers in its class with the same quality. It's not "garbage" , and Im not sure what universe the price "isn't even remotely close to reasonable". The fucking Google speaker is the same price. Apple discontinued it because it because it wasn't selling at the levels of Apple's other products (ie. astronomically high). Doesn't mean it was a "garbage" or "stupid" product.

I'm curious why you have such passionate hate towards it? What did it do to you? Pretty much everyone who cared about good sound quality and was in the Apple ecosystem loved it. Your post just sounds like a tired troll. Funny how you have to go back like 2 decades to find another discontinued product to pretend there's some kind of pattern. 

Maybe this exec should learn how to STFU, and respect NDAs? 

Jesus. 

kkqd1337 said:

Meh maybe so 

Apple has a lot of brand consistency and purity earning them loyal lemmings/cash cows. Cracks are starting to show in the mask however. But they are managing to keep up the show at the moment. 

But if was a totally ruthless business investor - I would put my money on Amazon. That is one dominant money machine. Has a dirty nose mind you. But hey!? Money is green

How many shitty troll posts does one need to have, like this guy, before they're banned? Why do you post here, since you're so frothing at the mouth with hatred and disdain towards Apple, to the point of stating that the entire company is a charade masquerading behind nothing but a brand?

People like you have been spouting that shit for the past couple of decades (The end is near! Cracks are forming! Apple is doomed!) , and all the while Apple has become more and more successful and meaningful to people's lives. I see less "cracks" today than at anytime in Apple's history. They have massively improved their weakest aspects, have successfully created new product after new product, and proved the doubters wrong at every turn. Their future couldn't be brighter, taking into account their ecosystem, new M class silicon, insanely successful product line, operating systems, exploding services, etc. Tell me, where the fuck is this "show" and what is the "mask" hiding? I can think of no other company today that has MORE substance and fundamentals driving it.  Apple has earned every ounce of brand value is currently has. 

Amazon is obviously an insanely successful e-commerce company, but their products beyond that have been mostly mediocre, and failures. The echo line is successful, but it's also dirt cheap. No idea what the hell that has to do with Apple. 

Epic can go fuck itself. Yeah, I'm sure a TON of users want random app stores to be installed on their devices which which are free from following any OS/privacy/security guidelines just so the respective companies can keep 100% of the profits for themselves while still having access to all of Apple's lucrative customers using Apple's platform and tools.