Mark Gurman Responds to Last Week's Apple Device Leaks

[FattiesGoneWild]

I just want the $599 A18 Pro MacBook

Never going to happen. You will be waiting until you are 💀

 

[yabeweb]

What I meant by "same" is same look, same chassis ... like the mbp, imac and airs of recent years.

I get it that Apple can't make them thinner and lighter every year. So we get a "proper" new model every (what?) 3/4 years? I don't consider design changes and proper new models as "same". But the years between model upgrades are always the same: a bit faster and a bit brighter.

That's why I hope the rumors of that A-powered laptop are true. First because I could use something like that. Second it's a chance for Apple to build something new, with (hopefully) some funky colours. But, knowing Apple, they'll probably release it with 8gb of ram, for a year or 2, then in year 3 give it 16gb of ram and sell the memory upgrade as the best thing since sliced bread.

Well that has been Apple way since I can remember, also if something works there is very little push to change for the sake of it, when Apple tried, they went back, see the return of massage, the return of the laptop keyboard that doesn't brake by itself and so on.

We are at a point where either you reinvent the category or there is little to be done.

This is why we are seeing more iteration of the same now then we used to in the past, there was a huge room in the 90s a big one in the early 2000 Wich became small in 2010 and it's shrinking at a great speed.

We just got one of the biggest improvement with the M chip, so I guess for a long time we won't see another breakthrough.

I am hoping I am wrong, but the day of big excitement are almost over unless a new category comes out ( Wich it will eventually )

Everyone wants the cheap greatest computer, we got one with the mini, it was cheap and didn't cut many corners, I hope but think it's hard to achieve a similar price adding keyboard a screen and a battery without cutting corners.

 

[zoozx]

Whatever they release will be the most powerful phone/iPad/Mac ever made, built from the ground up with new excitingly more fantastic than ever before seen. It will truly be light years ahead of even light itself. You are going to love it

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Exactly........ Ho hum_______

 

[dannyyankou]

I'm surprised by some of the Mark Gurman hate here because he breaks a lot of stories that turn out to be accurate. To name a few, the iOS 26 redesign, Apple Intelligence features being delayed, AirPods 4 coming in 2 variants, hearing aid support for AirPods Pro, and I can go on. He was the first to report all these things.

 

[Dirk Pieters]

I am hoping I am wrong, but the day of big excitement are almost over unless a new category comes out ( Wich it will eventually )

You're probably right. I'm old enough to remember when cd-rom drives first appeared. Single-speed, double-speed, quad-speed ... in those days it felt like every 6 months or so the speed of those drives doubled. Which was progress but in the end it was the same, just faster.

I think the entire M chip range is great but the minor yearly Apple upgrades certainly feel like the cd-rom drive days. It sometimes feels like the entire M chip upgrade path is the way it is in order to justify yearly updates. "Next year we'll give them this, the after that we'll give them this", etc.

Feels like easy/lazy upgrades in a way. And by having a new chip every year, there's also the psychological aspect of knowing that when you do buy, you know you'll have an "old" machine 1 year from now.

 

[N0ughtsAndCr0sses]