I understand you don’t have a problem being a slave of the market as long it goes your way. When it does not there is always the state bailout.
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I understand you don’t have a problem being a slave of the market as long it goes your way. When it does not there is always the state bailout.
Once you get to 256GB, or lean to Max , and optionally add Apple Care & a decent case it really is about £1500.
Base model might be fine for many , but I wouldn’t put myself in that category.
My iPhone 13Pro is going to have to last a number of years. New ones just too expensive now.
Yep, these days I can’t afford to buy new MacBooks. Their base tiers on the new models are underspecced for the money and the mid tiers (with reasonable memory/storage) are just ludicrously priced.
The answer for me is to buy last years model for a chunk of money off via refurb. Just did that on an M1 MacBook Pro and saved £900 compared to getting a new M2 with the same memory / storage.
I’ve skipped the iPhone 14 series and will skip the 15 too. Nothing wrong with my 13 Pro. Just buy a new screen protector each year and it feels like brand new again!
I’m most disappointed in the Watch. Hardly any innovation through series 6,7,8.
Considering the prices now of the iPad range, I can see where the boost came from. Silly money now for the air and pro range. Well into laptop territory.
Anyone who uses any modern language almost certainly relies on a large amount of libraries. They don’t write SSL handling / / DB interfaces / web services / UI frameworks / Cryptographic libraries etc themselves, to name a few.
Any one of these could have AI code in it now.
We scan millions of such files at my work for CVE vulnerabilities , but not for AI contributions and bugs.
As always though , humans assemble all the code & libraries to do meaningful work so it’s ultimately their responsibility for the end result.
Asking ChatGPT to give me a quick algo for solving a problem is worth a lot. I’m amazed at what it can produce given the right prompting.
Microsoft already has this with GitHub Copilot but I do like the ChatGPT implementation.
Well Sherlock, if overseas currencies were worth more than the paper they're printed on your price would be lower.
But Nooooo... no one wants those currencies they want U.S. dollars and the result a foreign exchange impact.
Just a quick check shows you're paying at least 7.5% to 400% import duty then add the 10% value added tax then add 2.5% or more Income Tax that Apple pays just to get an iPhone on the shelf in Indonesia. Of course Indonesia also has a 75%-150% luxury tax on some items but I couldn't track that down quickly. Oh that's not including any foreign exchange differences.
I'd suggest a talk with your governmental representatives about the costs of importing products into your country.
Countless times over the years overseas currencies have risen compared to the $. Apple never lowers prices in these regions when this occurs. They just delay yet another increase.
You are missing the point that neither cloud nor AI is about a sexy hardware platform. Microsoft made the decision to roll out services. And while Apple buys weather app, kills it, kills its android app and integrates it partially into its own weather app. Microsoft would roll it out to every platform possible. This is what a service company should do - and Apple fails again, when it comes to its announced transformation into a service comoany. A service company is not bound to a hardware or an OS.
Apple, at the moment is just a „boring phone company“. It has nothing else to offer. Additionally Apples platforms start to fail, macOS Ventura broke the Exchange sync, driving professional users crazy.Not to mention tons of other bugs Apple creates with is annual major OS releases.
Long story short. The cloud is not about hardware, AI is not about hardware. Apple should make the decision to offer the hardware platform that is best to run all of this services and it should roll out its own services to as many devices as possible. Like Steve Jobs already said, Apple should follow:
But Apple misses this point - again. So while Apple still makes insane profits - it has nothing to offer for the future.
Besides selling more in boring phones than Microsoft in all of their hardware and services combined, Apple has nothing else to offer.
Apple is not a services company. Their services are there to add value to Apple Hardware, so it makes sense that they are either limited to their own devices, or work better natively.
Apple recently updated their M1 chip to support stable diffusion, and their own chips have been sporting their own neural engine for many years now. And I think this is how Apple will continue to approach AI moving forward. They. could do something like build stable diffusion into their own OS, continue to tweak their processors to run it well (or even better than the competition), with APIs made easily accessible to developers, allowing them to tap on said feature without needing to scale up their own infrastructure.
The end result is to steal users away from centralised image generation services like Dall-E, because having good-enough, on-device local AI generation capabilities would suffice in making users not have to visit those services in the first place.
A reminder that Microsoft and Meta just dropped their plans for VR. Which I feel goes to the heart of what sets Apple apart from the competition like Microsoft - their ability to execute. Other companies try to dazzle the audience with some grandiose vision of the future, only for it to either be half-baked or cancelled long before said plan comes to fruition. Meanwhile, Apple will launch a product, then go on to iterate and support it year after after, which in turn gives consumers the confidence to hang around for the long term.
So it's not a given that Microsoft will be able to do anything meaningful with OpenAI, but less integrate it in a manner that's meaningful for the end user. Or pose any long-term threat to Apple.
Whether it's the present or the future, people are going to want their devices to just work. Maybe Apple is just another "boring phone company". However, I use a variety of Apple devices every single day (iPhone, iPad, MBA, Apple Watch, AirPods, Apple TV, Airtags, plus I am also subscribed to Apple One) and there really isn't anything that makes me want to jump ship.
Apple boring phone can shut down facebook in a heartbeat. You can have the best software, Apple however can shut you down. If you don't want to be shut down, you have to make boring phone too. Boring phone is not boring when you don't have it. Apple boring phone is very valuable because Apple has boring phone.
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Wrong.
POC supprt was there for those macs using such CPU’s with binary macOS releases for a few years to allow for standard obsolete at 6yrs and vintage at 7yrs for their macs.
You are in danger. I was like you, 10 years ago. Everything Apple. But than Apple canceled products like the Mac Pro (it also canceled Final Cut and lots of other stuff). Since then, I always choose other products. Like Spotify over Apple Music, no AirPods and so on. Those work on Mac and iPhone as well, but they also work on Linux, Windows or Android. I ported lots of workflows to Linux and today I‘m happy and free.
I still use an iPhone and a Mac. But no one who calls himself a „pro“ should rely only on Apple. Get another monitor cause Apple monitors can only connect using thunderbolt, other monitors support different standards.
Btw I would love to have a boring phone. But Apples stuff is packed with features. And every year, new gimmicks appear and new major OS releases show up, featurijg new bugs.
Apples AR glasses have been canceled or „put on hold“. Apples VR googles are likely to fail and the Apple car? No car manufacturer wants Apple inside its ecosystem, controlling everything.
No, I do not see a bright future in front of Apple. It changed completely from what it was under Steve. Apple was always known for „just works“ and Apple used to implemented only a few features (80/20) but those features worked very well.
Nowadays, you install a new OS and something breaks - like Ventura did break Calendar synchronization with Exchange, and it still hasn‘t been fixed.
Apple has nothing for you in the future. For me, I’m sure there is something or many something’s I’ll buy starting with HomePod 2, Apple Watch, iPhone 15.
I wonder if the iPhone would still be down if the supply issues never happened?