Yes, they spend tens of millions of dollars designing and building machines they don’t want people to buy, just so they can make a couple hundred more dollars on a different machine. And if the M3 outsells the Pro because most people don’t want to spend $200 for benefits they don’t need, well, that’s, hey, look over there!
Some people care about gaming and doing work / homework. Steam Deck is not a great option for them.
If money’s no object, obviously a steam deck for portable gaming, an M3 Max for productivity / engineering, and a gaming PC with 4090 is the way to go.
With Garmin you pay €19.99 for this per month
With Garmin you pay ~$20/mo for a very different service. I use inreach to send and receive text messages to family when I’m offroading. I can send them locations I’m at, casual chats, and check in that I’m OK.
I fully expect Apple to offer these same things soon, but for now inReach has a different value prop that’s a lot better.
Side loading is the new USB-C, which was the new Stage Manager. There always has to be some huge unconscionable outrage.
They must be terrified seeing revenue drop that much from a quarter with new M-series machines to one at the tail end of product refresh.
Latency? Privacy? Integration with on-device data? Server costs?
Consumers aren’t going to spend more money for memory bandwidth. Nobody cares; the target market for the Pro is not people who want every last 1% of performance.
The 25% less bandwidth is related to the 25% fewer performance core count (8 to 6), in favor of efficiency cores (4 to 6).
Odds are Apple looked at real world usage of the Pro chips and found that performance cores were rarely fully utilized while efficiency cores were, so it made sense to shift the design. And with fewer performance cores, you need less memory bandwidths
This whole thread is full of poeple who couldn’t even explain why memory bandwidth is important (hint: doubling bandwidth will haze zero impact on performance unless it was the bottleneck).
Lol. Have you ever tried using a desktop Windows app on a Windows tablet touchscreen? Obviously not or you wouldn’t have written that.
The problem isn’t getting the OS to run on the same hardware in a different form factor. The problem is decades of software written for keyboard/mouse and pixel-accuracy when touchscreens are for big fat fingers.
They design their pricing structure to have a compelling offering at a series of price points??? Have you called the police?