The CCP was allowing potential covid carriers to spread it around the world while locking down internally. Not a friendly act. The genie is out of the bottle - might as well let the Chinese people work - they too are suffering hard for bad decisions. Clustering them by the thousands in a small space for testing only causes more covid. Not smart. It's cruel.
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Good people work at the W.H.O. However, W.H.O. has lost a lot of credibility. Unfortunately organizations like this that can do a lot of good in the world start to suffer from corruption due to money, political influence and cover-ups. To work at an org. like this, you almost have to have ethics of steel. This beast of a disease has reach and almost religious zealot like status in some circles. The full story (truth) is not out yet.
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Who cares about Macs? Im actually a PC person and use mostly windows 11 even though I have a iPhone 13 and a iPad 9.
Are you excited for free speech to return on twitter?
Was expecting an event in November. Expecting Apple to launch many devices in 2023. Maybe a larger MacBook Air arrives next year.
Apple has a hiring freeze at the moment and there’s more to come.
They did state the goal of completing the migration in two years. That was about 3 months into the Covid lock down period when we were not sure how long it was going to go on. Intel recently withdrew an arrangement with TSMC for a large amount of their N3 production due to their new chip designs not being ready in time. Factories in China are routinely shut down for weeks at a time as Covid outbreaks sweep through the factories.
While it is true that they do not appear to be meeting the original goal of two years, we’ll have to wait to see if there is a small delay or something larger. I am not too concerned if we are looking at something in the 3-6 months range.
True, but then the 9th gen iPad would be the “iPad” and the 10th gen would be the “iPad air” in all but name. It is a really strange mix of overlapping products. I don’t understand why they put the M1 into the Air. It would have clearly defined the Pro line from the rest of the line if the iPad Air got the A15 SOC and kept the M1 for the Pros.
I understand that they are in transition and some models are updated and others not yet, but it’s not clear where they are going with this. Especially with weird situations like the pencil gen 1 on the new iPad. Or how the Air and the 11” Pro are so close.
All true. But none of that makes the Mac a ”niche” product. Go to any college campus and you’ll see how MacBooks dominate.
Niche and popular are by definition contradictory.
I really hope in 2023 they do a redesign of the current 14" Macbook Pro. Look how chunky and outdated it is compared with the 2011 Macbook pro. Can you spot the difference? They really dropped the ball on the old school design. They need to make it slimmer more like the (2015 Macbook Pros) not look like a damn iPad with a keyboard.
There was no deadline.
At the end of Tim Cook's keynote, the Apple CEO stressed that the company was not cutting off Intel immediately.
"We expect to ship our first Mac with Apple silicon by the end of this year, and we expect the transition to take about two years," he said. "We plan to continue to support and release new versions of Mac OS for Intel based Macs for years to come."
There is no way to misunderstand the comment in bold. The transition doesn’t mean everything Apple sells will be AS based in two years, neither is there an end date. The fact that the majority of Apple products uses Apple Silicon now is indicative to a smooth transition these last two years even if something like the Mac Pro hasn’t been announced. Beside that is the one product Apple sells that has never been revealed on a schedule.
1.5 billion Windows PCs/Devices
1.5 billion iOS devices
2 billion Android devices
140 million active Macs in use
Yeah, it’s niche
Then why are you here? Some of us do care about Macs. I don’t care about PCs. Does that matter to you? Do you have a point?
Just curious: Whatever is it that you think is wrong with segregating product lines? Good positioning of different products is sound business practice. Chip supplies and yields however may drive some weird product lineups like we currently see with iPads.
Who cares? Go buy it if you like it. I like Macs and will probably add a Studio to my mix of products.
As long as you are taking us back to 2011 please give us a 17" MBP with matte display as well - - I am in, whatever the price. Please keep the TB4 however.
Yes a lot of people really wished for a M1 Pro large iMac after the 24” M1 iMac was announced. But the April 2021 24” iMac is not outdated. It’s actually the best implementation M1 design with great thermal cooling that Apple came up with. Its color scheme caused many to buy a color that they design a room’s decoration around. The 6 speaker audio, was eventually incorporated in the Oct 2021 14”/16” MBP. The 24” replaced the older 21” iMac BTW.
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You are being disingenuous. "Windows PCs/Devices" is not a single vendor. Mac sales are substantial, making Apple Macs the fourth largest personal computer brand sold. Fourth largest is not niche.
Similarly you are being disingenuous with iOS versus Android. Android is just a free OS, with devices not sold by a single vendor but by dozens of vendors. All iOS devices are sold by Apple.
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