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It might not be Apple’s plan but this thing could see good success if it provides a novel experience for watching porn.  

How can shipping be $200?

I thought this was going to be about the Apple-Silicon-Killer Intel Mediocre Lake chips that I read about elsewhere yesterday.  In any event, what the people behind the "Apple Silicon Killers" fail to appreciate is that the performance alone is not the Mac's killer feature.  People buy Macs because of the whole package - hardware/software/ecosystem (or marketing and they don't really know what they're buying - for many of us it's the whole package.)

Macs have been on 4 distinctly different processor architectures that have sometimes been best-in-class and sometimes not.  (Motorola 68k, PowerPC, Intel, and now Apple Silicon) If Intel, AMD, or anyone else made a processor that really made Apple Silicon obsolete to such an extent that some other Apple software/hardware/ecosystem advantages were muted, Apple could switch to it.  

s.metcalf said:

They still haven’t beaten that iMac G4’s floating display arm.  That computer got a lot of sales in customer service/kiosks for that reason alone.

The arm had a tendency to go bad and no longer support the weight of the screen, leaving the screen flopping down.  It was a cool design but I don’t think they worked that well. 

AppleInsider said:

An unknown number of BuzzFeed and BuzzFeed News's redundancies will reportedly be offered positions on The Huffington Post, which Peretti co-founded.

Wow, as if getting fired from Buzzfeed wasn't bad enough - to go from there to Huffington Post.  You'd really have to question your life choices when it has come down to this.