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Well if you believe their forecast. Ask someone else and you might get a different viewpoint.
I used to - a long time ago - do some work for several "household name" consulting firms who make various pronouncements about a market, the size in the next x years etc. Often it was more fiction than J.K. Rowling. When in a sector I couldn't get the required data, I was told by my manager to "make it up, and make it sound right, and we label it a $consultingcompany_forecast/research'.
This was one of the household names in the industry which if shown a list of a half dozen names you -- or at least a participant in the sector - would react to if a (here's a list of six companies, three are fake names, which three do you recognise as correct] sort of thing.
Critical assessment of any news or information source is essential. And why the information - if not commonly released to all - often leaks out. It's different to a blogger and a factory image, versus say someone working for an international news agency with a niche on his beat for company $fruit that, what luck, often gets whispers just before x happens so he can trumpet it out. Make the odd error and/or info from someone else to not appear directly tied to them...
In British financial journalism in the old days it was called the "Friday night drop" where financial news would "leak" [cough] just in time for the Sunday newspapers who could set the [then] agenda for Monday and the markets. Both good and bad...
supporting intel adds a ton of overhead to the point where the amount of customers who would buy a 10 year old intel won't be enough to support the overhead. so apple dropped it. there goes your argument.
price increase already happened https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20240222PD217/samsung-nand-production-price-increase.html
I never said Apple should support it, but that the machine COULD still be useful so thus it is an artificial decision on the one hand as is all "innovation".
Just like how some software vendors cut support after a couple of years, other hardware vendors cripple their so-called luxury brand by nickel and diming people. A bit like the genius of Apple hardware and its 1x SSD to slow things down for the more demanding user since, well, Apple knows best.
Giving more memory might enhance further the experience, but I'd settle for them actually writing decent software and not have this eternal rush for a yearly release that inevitably breaks things just for even more emojis and for Cook to give the uber-fanboys something extra to masturbate over [the thought] and get so-excited with every "leak", "guess" and the delivery of what are often "meh" new shiny things.
There'd be a much better Apple product is they took the foot of the gas and, you know, focus on a quality product. A rock solid product, as befitting a premium product's range.
Just like how some software vendors cut support after a couple of years, other hardware vendors cripple their so-called luxury brand by nickel and diming people. A bit like the genius of Apple hardware and its 1x SSD to slow things down for the more demanding user since, well, Apple knows best.
Giving more memory might enhance further the experience, but I'd settle for them actually writing decent software and not have this eternal rush for a yearly release that inevitably breaks things just for even more emojis and for Cook to give the uber-fanboys something extra to masturbate over [the thought] and get so-excited with every "leak", "guess" and the delivery of what are often "meh" new shiny things.
There'd be a much better Apple product is they took the foot of the gas and, you know, focus on a quality product. A rock solid product, as befitting a premium product's range.
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Does the Paywalled article say what the price rise was, and how close to the 50% in the year forecast that was claimed.
Edit: This random article is at least more informative as to the back story being considered.
Rising NAND and DDR chip prices mean SSD and memory prices are sure to increase in 2024
Now might be your last chance to grab a bargain.
Does the Paywalled article say what the price rise was, and how close to the 50% in the year forecast that was claimed.
Edit: This random article is at least more informative as to the back story being considered.
Rising NAND and DDR chip prices mean SSD and memory prices are sure to increase in 2024
Now might be your last chance to grab a bargain.uk.news.yahoo.com
the point was price isn't decreasing. whether or not it reaches 50% is not critical to the argument.
I came across that article but then I looked at the date and decided to not link it.
You're right, I still use an iPhone 8, which has a base storage of 64GB. We're 7 years later and the base storage only increased to 128GB? That's ridiculous.
if you're not talking about why Apple doesn't continue selling a 10 year old intel processor mac in 2024 since it's suitable for many customers, then it's not really a valid point against what I'm talking about.
Because they are lower than the entry level specs of all other competitor devices
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For a MacBook Pro? Really?..
They haven't got to delete it, just tweak the damn config and move the RAM size up across all tiers. Even if they did that they are still overcharging anyway.
Yes. Apple pulls stunts like the M3 MacBook “Pro” to hit a certain price point. A price point which, is only there to scoot you up the ladder to the M3 Pro MacBook Pro.
This ad is so funny considering the fact that you get 5GB of iCloud storage and the photos back up automatically so everyone gets that “No storage” notification a few days into owning an iPhone
128Gb of storage on iPhone is equivalent to 256Gb storage on Android. Just like RAM.
you're not understanding. it's wishful thinking to suggest that apple should just make less by simply saying so. you add more to a product, it makes it more expensive. you remove from the product, you make it cheaper. the market decides if the price is right or not and helps apple figure out the pricing elasticity of the product.
saying "we want Apple to eat a bit of margin just because" is unrealistic.
I must be getting ‘old’ because that song sounded dreadful. Apologies to the artist but… 😬
Yes really.
are there not pros who just has a browser and Microsoft word open all day long?
and that would make it more expensive, essentially eliminating a low cost option that many people clearly still want.