No price increase in iPhone to save the sales number, this clearly shows that Apple is iPhone first company.
Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
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Some very steep price rises here! I would have thought with Apple’s scale they would have much of their memory purchases locked in to long-term supply contracts that would insulate them somewhat from the market, but I guess that isn’t the case. Either that or they’re just taking advantage of the situation to juice their profits!
The prices are set largely by what consumers will tolerate. If everyone else is raising prices so consumers expect that, why wouldn't you do it, too?
are consumers really tolerating current prices?
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I know this is a bit off topic, but is anyone excited for the future? I'm only 20, but everyone used to talk about how excited they were for the future. I don't know anyone who is excited for the future. It upsets me I never got to live the "glory days" of cars, technology, outdoor activities, music, entertainment, etc. I only see it getting significantly worse too. It's hard not to fall into the trap of doomerism bu…
With all due respect, we have pills for obesity and computers think. If that doesn’t get you excited about the future, nothing will.
So far the main effect of "computers think" has been making my job both more precarious and more miserable— talking to agents all day instead of writing code sucks ass and I want to die by the end of it, it's like spending all day on Slack with particularly dimwitted coworkers. What about that should make me excited?
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1.16x simple mean on XBOX 1.22x simple mean on Apple Closer than I expected, but some products are quite the outliers. E.g. Apple TV is 1.54x. That's gotta hurt.
A good opportunity to move away from this tier of locked-down garbage devices, which include, among other, consoles (Xbox, PlayStation), streaming boxes (Apple, Amazon, Google), phones with locked bootloaders (Apple, Samsung), Internet-of-Shit home appliances that depend on the "cloud" and non-free apps, and others.
Move to what?
Do I not have to buy RAM and an SSD if I opt for a Framework?
Your point is orthogonal to the fact that the price increases are at a level that affects ANY computing device.
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This is ridiculous. A used M1 MBAir is the best personal computing value ever offered in the history of the world.
Such great value that it’ll stop getting updates next year.
This is entirely inaccurate. M1 is Apple Silicon and will be fully supported in Golden Gate (macOS 27). Support in macOS 28 is also practically a given.
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#796Apple did not have to be in this situation. Begging for capacity lost to startups. Everyone else can complain, but not Apple. They had a 250B warchest, exactly for such situations. Now somehow openAI has capacity and Apple does not. And think about it Apple is not in a better position than Valve for example. A teeny tiny company in comparison. It is an unprecedented managerial failure.
Are you suggesting Apple should have invested in internal DRAM production?
Like SOC'S? Something is probably coming Motorola, IBM, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Samsung, Qualcomm (out in 2027-2028), and Broadcom said no then Apple did something and replaced them the Apple Silicon design group can certainly do memory wasn't a company called Anobit bought by Apple years ago and money isn't a problem Apple didn't flush billions down Sam Altman's toilet like Microsoft.
Timeline 2-3 years 10-20 billion dollars...
Note:(Microsoft thru the end of this year will spend 60-80 billion dollars on Capex and Google will spend 180 billion dollars).
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#797Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know this is a bit off topic, but is anyone excited for the future? I'm only 20, but everyone used to talk about how excited they were for the future. I don't know anyone who is excited for the future. It upsets me I never got to live the "glory days" of cars, technology, outdoor activities, music, entertainment, etc. I only see it getting significantly worse too. It's hard not to fall into the trap of doomerism bu…
I am super excited for the future! Medical advancements are accelerating, fusion power is on the horizon, space travel is exciting again. This is really an amazing moment in human history. I think we really can conquer cancer, Alzheimer's and maybe even senescence in the next 20-30 years.
Didn't the Combine give humans immortality?
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#798This feels like the car market during COVID. In December Best Buy had a $1999 configuration of the M5 MacBook Pro on sale for $1749 and I scooped one up. Now that model is $2199. I suspect I could sell the computer I've been using for 6 months at a profit, which is just bizarre. But then of course it would cost a lot if I wanted to replace it.
Naaah, no way anyone buying that for profit
Sounds like hope...
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#799Some unc perspective: I paid ~$6,000 in inflation-adjusted dollars for a computer in 1996. Today, I can get the same power in a $6 single board computer. A powerful modern mini PC starts at ~$600. However painful these price hikes are, and they are painful, it is worth remembering that computing has become incredibly ubiquitous and cheap.
why not compare the prices a couple years ago instead?
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#800Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know this is a bit off topic, but is anyone excited for the future? I'm only 20, but everyone used to talk about how excited they were for the future. I don't know anyone who is excited for the future. It upsets me I never got to live the "glory days" of cars, technology, outdoor activities, music, entertainment, etc. I only see it getting significantly worse too. It's hard not to fall into the trap of doomerism bu…
It is astounding to me that people are not excited for the future. I live in a moment in time where I can ask AI to do something and it can think about it rationally, work on it for an hour, and basically do what I want. This is incredible and amazing.
You are a carriage horse excited about the invention of the automobile, thinking “it will free me up from so much labor!”