Profit and innovation are two different worlds… that’s part of the problem! Apple is not putting out the latest innovation because their focused on making profit. The mobile world have under screen cameras, under screen fingerprint identifiers, 8K 120 frames per second video, Apple does not have the best camera nor video recording, or even off unfoldable phone, or a touchscreen laptop. I’m an apple user have been since the 80s, and just disappointed in the last several years. With that said the jump to the arms architecture and the M series chips was huge. But there is significant opportunity for advancement and innovation that Apple doesn’t want to offer, they would rather milk, their customers for profit for years before they actually offer a true advancement.
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The MacRumors Show: Apple's Shocking M4 MacBook Pro Leak
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I understand that, and the M series CPU is huge advancement, but there’s a lot of other innovation that’s not being addressed.
I guess these Mac's will be shown at another "scary fast" event. One can't criticise Apple for telling the truth, Scary will be the price and fast will be the speed with which your savings dwindle. :-> Actually looking at all the criticisms of Apple I really don't get it. they're providing the most advanced machines they've ever made. The quality is excellent. they look nice. Sure their prices are high. If you can't afford 'em or don't like them don't buy them. Why all the negativity? The iPhone/Apple Watch/Airpod Max release was a disappointment but even within that the devices were still the most advanced they've ever produced. It wasn't enough to tempt me so that's why I wont upgrade. Waiting on a new Mac Mini M4 (ideally a pro version with 32gb or 48gb hopefully). If they don't produce it at a sensible price I wont be buying. Apples lost out on over 2.5K of upgrades from me so far this year. I'm sure I'm not the only person whose held off upgrading. It will be interesting to see whether they maintain their (thus far) stellar financial results.
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If the rumours are correct that it was theft then it has nothing to do with workers’ wages. Unless it was an inside job, but with the amount of workers involved during production, you will always find someone willing to do this regardless of wage. So don’t just blame something.
Yep, I was kind of thinking along those same lines. The base M4 more than meets my needs and was thinking a 16" might be preferable to a 14". I agree, I don't think we'll see that option.
Rest assured, nothing will happen. Unless the individuals are caught, there is nothing Apple can do but beef up security for next time.
“Foxconn, you’ve been dropped as an assembler.”
“Quanta, you’ve been dropped as an assembler.”
“UPS, you’ve been dropped as our shipper because of the missing pallet.”
That certainly caught my eye when watching. Surely there must be some company that produces some tech related product or service that would be happy to sponsor the show. Get Hartley to start putting the screws to some UK based companies.
If it's one of those three, then no.
But now that you mention it, I don't really want to think about what something like the Foxconn security team might do in response to this...
Yes Samsung is in the exact same boat. At the end of the day all of this tech is roughly the same. Just very mature designs that cannot be improved massively without some major breakthrough. You know you have major issues when the major talking point of phones for years is pixel peeping the cameras trying to spot a difference. It's to the point
It's not just tablets. Macbooks are in this same spot. Hartley even said Macbook's are perfect now. Thats good for consumers but this is all bad for Apple. Marques Brownlee said it here. And even though this video is a bit old he reviewed the M3 Max and decided to keep his M1 Max as there is no meaningful upgrade for him.
Do you mean on the video hosted on Youtube? That seems odd, I can play it just fine without being logged in. I wonder why you would get that message.
Much ado about nothing. Sorry. Why do we care? It is a laptop and it does not even look different to the old ones.
In fact the strangest thing of that "leak" is the screen wallpaper, unchanged from m3s ...there are two options in my opinion: 1) it's a fake, or 2) Apple will show a slightly different form factor for M4 pros and M4 max macs, maybe more slim, and the old wallpaper in the base M4 is to differentiate it from the other pros macs
Everything is "25%" faster on paper / benchmark tests and then actually about 5% faster in the real world.
Apple is a dinosaur that thinks their "events" are relevant. Build the product, release the product. Sitting on it so you can pretend that it needs to roll down a red carpet to be presented to the unwashed masses is past its time. The fact that someone got a pallet of macbook pros while Apple is shooting their next ridiculous video makes me laugh.
With PC vendors, we have that option...if Dell doesn't have what I'm looking for, check out ASUS, Acer, Lenovo, etc... With Apple, it's take it or leave it. We get that a company is out to make money, but there are limits to the level of blatant self-serving product design limitation beyond which some customers will, at least in discussion forums and YouTube videos, 'call them on it.' Sometimes feeding the fires of negativity stirs up enough pushback to do some good, although when it comes to changing anything about Apple's approach, it seems to take a LOT of pushback. Kinda like when they appeared to grudgingly acknowledge that maybe the 'trashcan' MacPro wasn't such a hot idea. Then again, they stuck with butterfly keyboards and the old 'hockey puck' mouse for years...
I tend to think along the same lines, but historically the practical reality may differ because humans aren't just biological robots/logic-based beings. I recall when Gil Amelio was CEO and presented a strong brand name flashlight as the example to be emulated, the 'build a better mousetrap and they will come' approach. That's how I think. Apple was floundering badly. Then Steve Jobs came back with his 'sell the sizzle, not the steak' approach and reputation for a 'reality distortion field,' and Apple's fortunes did a 180.
I don't watch their live-streaming events. I go to Mac Rumors and skim over the summaries, reading some more in depth when I find something relevant to me. I like to cut through the 'sizzle' and analyze what the 'steak' means for me. But I can't ignore the impact of marketing style on their success.
As expected, confirmed by Gurman these are real.
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Some people keep harping about the box art, but they stay quiet once they hear M1/M2 MBP boxes were identical. It’s getting really boring.
Apple Has a New Smart Home Strategy: Screens Everywhere
Apple is finally preparing to compete for the smart home market after falling behind Amazon and Google. Also: The Vision Pro team ponders its next steps; Apple Intelligence approaches; the next MacBook Pro shows up early in Russia; and two top executives are retiring.
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Some people keep harping about the box art, but they stay quiet once they hear M1/M2 MBP boxes were identical. It’s getting really boring.
you have no idea about marketing, do you?
your release proposal is exactly what happens with the great unwashed masses of phones and laptops.
they roll a new model out with nothing of note every three to six months or so.
and they fade into the clearance or 30% off section quickly.
Samsung at least try to match Apple and package and market their items with some effort.
Even if it means bagging Apple oneyear and then doing the same thing the next.
isnt the current rumour they will have 16G in base model? so that sounds like that will suit you.