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slow n easy said:

saarek said:

Sightly thinner and slightly bigger screen. Yep, I'll hang onto my Apple Watch Series 6 for another year. Can't complain, Apple has done my wallet a favour once again with such an iterative and unimaginative update.

Well I wouldn't call a 30% thinner screen "slightly thinner." To me, 30% is pretty substantial. It's a hell of a lot thinner than my Ultra.

Read it again.

LOL every single photo caption says 'iPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 15 Pro" — nearly impossible to tell which is which at a glance.

I hope this works well, is flexible, and that there is real usable spam filtering and more reliable cross-device filters in Mail. Currently I have to filter everything server-side on my cPanel-based web server, and it sucks. 

Also, some feature parity with iOS/iPadOS — like being able to sort by sender, which you can only do on the Mac! So annoying. 

Lastly, I'm wondering why Mac Mail doesn't pre-cache content in downloaded messages. On a slow internet connection, just switching to a new unread message can take a few seconds just to display. This seems completely unnecessary. 

I want to love Mail despite all my frustrations with it, so hoping this is a bigger overhaul than just the category sorting and summary stuff (another welcome change!).

AppleInsider said:

Resident Evil 4 was first released in January 2005

It's the RE4 Remake — not the original — released in 2023. 

Pema said:

This all looks great. What isn't great is that the Vision Pro is too expensive. There are no tiers like with any other major Apple product. [...]
I cannot begin to imagine Apple releasing just the one iPhone model

That's literally what happened with the first several models of iPhone, aside from tiered storage, which the AVP also has. ¯\(°_o)/¯ 

Just because you can't afford it (or don't want to) doesn't make it too expensive. It's priced appropriately for what it is. 

The other problem is the buyer needs to go into the Apple store to be fitted for the product. Another impediment. 

You don't have to though. You probably should to ensure getting the best fit possible, but you don't *need* to.

There is no trade-in for the Vision Pro! to bring the cost down. 

What are you talking about? You can trade in any of your Apple devices at any time for store credit. 

I would suggest that somewhere along the line Apple botched this product from wow to go. Tim Cook needed a headline grabbing product and pushed for its release before it was ready.

The first iPhone didn't have MMS, copy and paste, or App Store, etc. Clearly they shouldn't have released it until it was the iPhone 4! 🙄

The iPhone is a different paradigm. I often do think of the next release and what it can do for me. The iPhone 16 looks like a winner. And I will be upgrading. And after the trade-in it will run me appx. $900 USD. I can stomach that. 

The iPhone 16 that nobody has seen yet outside of Apple? Sure, looks like a winner! You've clearly established the cost/value of the iPhone is worth it for you. It's not there for the AVP now or anytime in the foreseeable future. Maybe never.

What doesn't make sense is declaring a new product/platform as a failure because you don't want to pay for it. I didn't spend years ranting about OLED TVs being failures up until the time at which I felt like the price had come down enough to make it an attractive purchase for me. It's like the ridiculous questions in forums like "Is a MacBook Pro worth it?" which of course is meaningless without knowing what your use case is, the value you'd get out of such a device, your financial situation, so forth.