I’ll admit, ever since the API changes and strike, I have not really moderated this subreddit (or really any subreddit) that much, but as mentioned above, I still handle the Apple Event megathreads each time as I love experiencing the Apple Events with all of you.

So you were doing little mod work overall, someone else can create a megathread those 2/3 times a week and you can still interact “with all of us” like you love so much.

I don’t care at all who is a mod or isn’t.

Option 3: You were already not doing much with your mod position during most of the year. The obvious choice is right there, leave the mod team and let others pick up the slack on the events (which is a time a lot of people is probably interested, so likely other mods are available as well), or get a new mod that would actually do more than just show up 2 or 3 times a year.

You can still contribute and be a part of the community without being a mod.

The funny thing is that a LOT of those that say things like that, have an iPhone SE and a 10 year old MacBook and talk as if those that got a 1800 dollar Galaxy Fold are poor.

Obviously there’s nothing wrong with those. Just saying it’s a weird ass mindset to pretend your cheaper and significantly older product is better because it has some brand and not another.

Apple really did amazingly well with their marketing. They managed to make some people believe that a literal consumer product, that sells into the hundreds of millions each year, is some sort of ultra premium item that’s unattainable and brings some prestige above the rest and it generates some inexplicable weird fetish.

They said it had an E N O R M O U S D I S P L A Y.

Sometimes I think they do it on purpose just to fuck with us.

With all these CGI effects used on the presentation of Spooky Tim Apple, I can see the price increase coming to cover for the extra expenses!

The one that I said could compete with the M series is their upcoming X Elite platform with the Oryon CPU. Here’s a thread from a few days ago about it.

As for the GPU side for which I used the Snapdragon 8 gen 3, you can look the Geekerwan review here.

Yeah, like someone else replied, they were using the M2 Max for single core instead of the M2. Which obviously paints things in their favor.

I hate all companies doing that. Just like when Apple compares to “the Intel powered Macs” or vs the “best selling PC” (which obviously is gonna be worse) and that stuff.

Obviously it’s all complex. It’s not all lineal. Power draw can be fine for most tasks and then be super high on the top end (kind of like the A17 which is power hungry with those P cores) and that could be fine or not depending on what you need.

We have to wait for the reviews once it’s out. That’s why I wasn’t asserting what they said, just left it at what they claimed and what they could achieve.

Depends on what you are measuring/bragging about.

Efficiency is the one that’s still a win for Apple. But raw power has been surpassed by Intel and AMD. Also Apple’s GPU was already surpassed last year with Snapdragon 8 gen 2, and even more with the gen 3.

Plus the upcoming Qualcomm’s chip may be comparable in power efficiency, they claimed 30% less power use at the same performance as the M2 Max. So M3 would need to be much better in that sense to still have bragging rights next year.

Basically, significantly different story from when the M1 released where the gap was bigger. The others are catching up fast.

Is there a difference in sheet music apps or whatever between Android and iOS?

There’s some significantly cheaper options for like 1/3rd or the price, or less. On Amazon I see some Samsung has some 12.5 inch tablets for $400. And I’m sure some generic random brand would have some even cheaper.

I know it’s not the same, but if your use is that specific, and you’d be saving those $700, then it might make sense to go with something else.

but Apple could still change up the options at the unveiling

I find that line hilarious.

As if it wasn’t set in stone months before and all it took was Tim Apple to decide on launch day, let’s edit the video and add some new colors.

I’m sure there is some middle ground that makes more sense between having every single capacitor available and having to get half a laptop replaced when your battery dies, or your cooler dies and stuff like that. Not sure if that’s the case anymore, but it was before the last redesign.

As for the cost to the consumer, it depends. Apple wanted me to pay like 500 for a noise cooler replacement (since they replaced half the laptop) when I could literally buy and get one repaired in a shop for like 50…

If I wanted a battery replacement, I would need to leave my Macbook with them for like a week, and then pick it up again. Again at like $500. Meanwhile, no laptop. Or I could go to a third party shop and get some third party battery from who knows where and they do it in an hour and for like $100.

There’s levels to it.

And for repair shops, they should at least allow them to pre stock these assemblies at least so they can repair quickly, and also use one ‘donor board’ and repair multiple devices from those capacitors, resistors and chips. My latest knowledge is they didn’t allow any of that.

Again, not an expert, but I doubt Apple is suddenly going for the most user friendly choice.

The article says:

Apple’s pledge to extend California’s law on a national level is “a strategic move.” “Apple likely hopes that they will be able to negotiate out the parts of the Minnesota bill they don’t like,” Chamberlain wrote in an email, pointing specifically to the “fair and reasonable” parts provisioning measure that could preclude Apple’s tendency toward pairing parts to individual devices.

And the article linked about that Minnesota law says that:

The modified [NY’s] bill also allowed manufacturers to sell “assemblies” of parts—like a whole motherboard instead of an individual component, or the entire top case Apple typically provides instead of a replacement battery or keyboard—if an improper individual part installation “heightens the risk of injury.”

and that:

Minnesota’s bill, by comparison, covers most electronic products sold on or after July 1, 2021, and doesn’t allow for as much manufacturer discretion. Companies that sell in Minnesota but don’t offer customers or independent repair shops the materials needed to fix devices with “fair and reasonable” terms and within 60 days can be found in violation of the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices law

And also:

given how manufacturers must now provide free documentation for Minnesotans who want to repair their goods, most companies will post them online. Once online, they’re liable to spread everywhere.

So from that article, the answer is easy. Apple rather lobby to get the bills towards one where they essentially can sell you half a computer/phone preassembled vs one where they need to sell more specific components.

Very green for them, and not the environmental kind.

Very obvious after the updates they did to the A17. It was mostly GPU stuff, and in particular things for games that make way more sense on a computer than a phone.

They added mesh shading, ray tracing, metalfx upscaling… So yeah… No surprise there.

Obviously that means the M3 needs to be based on A17. But at this point it’s likely it will.

It will be interesting to see if the game devs support them or not. And what the base configurations will be on the Macs. Because unless even their lowest end Macbook can play games comfortably, most devs won’t bother porting their games at all as the market would be too small.

Yeah, but this is a Macbook Pro. They don’t come with the base M chip. The M2 Pro came mid January, so that’s 10 months. And M1 Pro to M2 Pro took 15 months.

Still, even if it were a simple M3 it would be slightly faster, as M1 to M2 took almost 20 months. And this would put it at 16 months.

a new M3 Pro/Max MBP is crazy 10 months later but here we go.

We used to have updated versions every 9 - 12 months on average, sometimes even faster, before the transition to M chips.

And they are already making a new iPhone chip every year anyway.

It’s not crazy to think a yearly release is the intended timeline. We had covid and yield issues that prevented it to be become a thing i the middle.

Plus, gotta keep in mind that both Intel and AMD are getting close (in all but in power efficiency, which doesn’t matter much for all of that that’s plugged in), and now Qualcomm is releasing their products as well, which look very promising…

If Apple keeps a schedule of a year and a half or longer, and the rest iterate faster, they could get leapfrogged easily in a couple years.