I am lucky to have Tim Cook at the helm of Apple! Because of his squeezing customers on monitors and ram upgrades, I passed on the Mac Studio in the summer of 23 and built a machine I named Badass. I threw a 4090 and an i13900k in it with 8 TB and 128gb of ram with a 32” 4k monitor for less than that single upgraded Mac Studio would have cost. I have learned so much in the past year and a half about modern technology because Tim has taken this lifelong Apple customer for granted. I run LLMs locally, record/master some pretty cool stuff, have learned a fair amount of programming and am reaquinted with the cutting edge of the broader technology landscape. Even recently traded in my iPhone for a pixel pro xl which I absolutely love (my wife and kids got16 pros and are jealous!) We’ll see what happens with their chips (which rock but are software and market share starved), but I believe APPL will lost 1/3rd its market cap in the next 5 years. There’s too many forces way too far ahead of them in their core products and far more marketing hype than technical vision within the company. That can only last so long. Thanks Tim!
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