I bought an M4 Mac and I love it, can you buy an Qualcomm laptop and tell me the same thing?
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Apple to Hold Q1 2025 Earnings Call on January 30
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I want an investor to ask Tim about sales of the Vision Pro - I’m sure the spin will be succulent.
“revenue is expected to grow low to mid single digits…”
Modest expectations.
Sign of a mature company and the curse of big numbers.
When you’re as big as Apple large growth rates are unobtainable.
Unless your name is Nvidia.
Modest expectations.
Sign of a mature company and the curse of big numbers.
When you’re as big as Apple large growth rates are unobtainable.
Unless your name is Nvidia.
Maybe Cook will resign and we can have some innovation again.
Apple, proudly going out of business since 4/1/1976. Oh but iPhone sales are down in China. Surely that is a harbinger of doom.💩
I hope Apple can survive selling a few less iPhones. They might have to move into some kind of shack until they can get sales back up. Poor Tim Cook.
Hey I just got my ports back. Can we stop the innovation for the sake of innovation for a bit and just build **** that works.
AVP was innovative. Among other things.
The fact my 2 year old iPhone is already doing all the ‘make it feel old’ lag/stutter/battery charge tricks, and that I get constant alerts now telling me to trial Apple Music and buy more iCloud storage tells me all is not well at Apple on the financial side.
That would make me interested, a new iPad Air might tease me.
I didn’t feel the mini 7 was enough upgrade from my 6, and Air M2 are not so new. So I’ll wait for 4.
My 9 year old iPhone isn’t even doing that.
Are you sure you didn’t buy a Samsung by mistake?
The M3 was basically a flawed chip by Apple and we can see how flawed it was by the massive gains made in M4. Being somewhat competitive with the M3 is a long way from being competitive with the M4. And remember, you have to be competitive on specs and on price. Do you think there will be $1,000 laptops that compete with the M4 MBA coming out in 2025? I would be shocked if there were. As I write this I'm looking at my work provided Dell laptop that cost $1,200 that is vastly inferior to an M3 MBA (for many reasons, but mainly because the Intel chip sucks battery so battery life is about 3 hours).
Wait until 2024 numbers are fully out and available. You will see (A) increase in desktop sales and (B) Apple having a larger percentage of the desktop market. I expect 2025 to look similar as the value of the mini starts to become fully understood by the consumers.
The main difference between the prior mini and the new mini isn't just the form factor or the M4 chip's power, though both are huge things. The difference is that it comes with a fulsome 16gb which is "enough", instead of prior $599 minis that really needed to be upgraded to $799 minis.
Another record quarter, no doubt. Without the Apple Car pulling billions in R&D costs away from other efforts, I wonder where they will put their internal investments next? A larger iMac? A new XServe geared towards ML? Lower-cost Apple Vision models? Love to dream.
I just got done buying an iPhone Pro Max 16, a Watch Ultra 2, and an M4 iPad Pro 13", every one of those things with Apple Care and a slew of accessories such as screen protectors and cases, etc.
Later this month, I'll upgrade my M1 MBP to the M4, and I'll trade in the old one. I'm excited about the technologies that Apple is bringing to the forefront, so I'm willing to spend dosh on upgrades.
It's purely coincidence that I'm buying "everything" all at the same time. Normally, my upgrades are staggered across different calendar years. Oh well!
Things I'm impressed about so far:
Sometime next week, I'm going to take the new iPad and Pencil Pro on a test drive with ProCreate. The pencil (and how good it works) is almost always my top reason for buying an iPad, but this time around, it's also because I want to start using forScore for music score reading on it, so that I can carry my sheet music around wherever I go.
As mentioned above, later this month, I'll up the M1 MBP to an M4. It's going to cost me close to $6K even after the trade-in on the old unit. But Apple is doing things right, and I think this is a good time to put some trust into the company and its products.
I'm absolutely thrilled. Poorer, yes. But thrilled!
Later this month, I'll upgrade my M1 MBP to the M4, and I'll trade in the old one. I'm excited about the technologies that Apple is bringing to the forefront, so I'm willing to spend dosh on upgrades.
It's purely coincidence that I'm buying "everything" all at the same time. Normally, my upgrades are staggered across different calendar years. Oh well!
Things I'm impressed about so far:
- Battery is better on both iPhone and Watch Ultra 2. Significantly so.
- iPhone and iPad were easy to upgrade. I'm keeping both old units for possible use as old cameras, alternate screens, etc. I did have trouble with transferring the old iPad's ESim over to the new one, but Verizon support did a great job helping me.
- iPad M4 is cray-cray thin! I haven't had it long enough to report on battery. I did get the "standard" display instead of the Nano.
- The Watch Ultra 2 has a really nice "dim red/orange" display at night, so it doesn't shine in my eyes if I'm wearing it.
- It's nice now having my iPhone, new airpods, and iPad all compatible with the USB-C connector. One connector to rule them all, yay! But I did have to buy a new cable so that AirPlay would work in my car.
- As I mentioned in another post, Siri does seem to have improved for me in December. But since I got the iPhone 16 a week ago, she seems to be even more responsive on that device.
- I'm not sure I like the Airpods 4...the way they fit isn't as good as the simpler design from last year. But they still fit better than anything with a silicone tip.
Sometime next week, I'm going to take the new iPad and Pencil Pro on a test drive with ProCreate. The pencil (and how good it works) is almost always my top reason for buying an iPad, but this time around, it's also because I want to start using forScore for music score reading on it, so that I can carry my sheet music around wherever I go.
As mentioned above, later this month, I'll up the M1 MBP to an M4. It's going to cost me close to $6K even after the trade-in on the old unit. But Apple is doing things right, and I think this is a good time to put some trust into the company and its products.
I'm absolutely thrilled. Poorer, yes. But thrilled!
How big of a stock buyback are they expected to announce?
Ah yes, the buyback boogeyman argument. Gotta keep up the negative narratives.
It's great hearing some positive comments on the forum. Sadly, that's very rare here.
Regarding Procreate... That's an awesome app and well-priced. And very deep in capabilities. My wife the graphic artist is really into it with her iPad Mini and Apple Pencil. And will soon be moving over to an M4 iPad Pro with it.
Check out the online ProCreate tutorials on their website. They're really good!
The cameras on the 16PM are excellent. iPhone cameras for the last seven or so years have pretty much replaced my dSLRs/mirrorless cams for a lot of what I like to shoot: urban and strangers on the street (engaged/posed and candid).
Uhm, shouldn’t there be a reason for that? I mean, if the offerings are great, it would be hard to criticize 😉
Apple products are great; as evidenced by Apple's 1+ Billion active and repeat customers, and as a result Apple being one of the most successful tech companies in the world. Year after year after year.
I hope it won’t go the same route as Aperture, FCP, Motion, Logic, etc. Because as you mentioned Procreate is great and the developers were very active making it better. Hate to see it getting neglected in the future.
How do you know they are all very satisfied using customers and how do you explain the overall marketshare is going down?
Why would it go the same route? And be neglected? Is the sky always falling in your world?