But the cool kids will have a $79 Apple Pencil, or better yet a $129 Apple Pencil Pro. ;-)

they're fully a decade behind in display technology, and it's about time they finally caught up.

Doing things differently is not "innovative".

Its like asking for a wrench, and getting about 50 different options. One may work best, but they all work.

So keep suckin that copium on your purchase of a system to indicate you have an apple product only to find you bought something that is over priced and stuck within a corporate price controlled prison.

Unhuh, until you read and write this via bash prompt. I dont wanna hear it youngin.

Apple isnt innovative, they keep their walled garden hardware with their walled garden software, so of course it works like a walled garden authoritarian system would work. As long as you dont deviate, its all going to work. And while those free thinkers outside the walls progress and mess up, and stay human, the Apple overlords keep free thinking to a minimum.

Irony that artists use these over priced things to work.

I feel like they should focus on rollable screens. Should help avoid seams cause there's no specific place where it creases.

Similar, I have Safari, Mail, VPN, Boom3d, and Preview, and am using 2.1GB.

It the Mac mini M4 not a sweet little thing?

Who can live on that? Not in 2026.

That Ternus has had the CEO job for just over a week and is already flushing any good will Apple had down the toilet. "Lake America," this BS, etc. I've liked and used many Apple prdoducts in the past, including a series 9 watch. I will not be upgrading based on this kind of crap. Oh, and the $2000 phone. Get real. Very disappointed in the company.

Ooo, 2020!

Welp, that was short-lived. Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ After Trump Order

What wasnâ(TM)t âoeSuper Smoothâ about the Upgrade? ;-)
I accidentally installed the new OS on the USB stick, I was booting from.
So after several reboots, I figured: Oh my god, I am so stupid ... and finally installed it on the hard drive of the Mac.

Were you left with anything not working, or wonky?
All works fine!

The reality is Apple very much positioned their product line as fashion items, and while you may have the common sense to not participate in the disposable culture the reality is a very great many people do and the world is full of perfectly fine and unused iPhones rotting in a drawer (or were traded in, after all Apple is so keen on getting you the latest shiny they'll actively offer you trade in bonuses).

Consume consumer, it's all you're good for in the eyes of the corporation.

...by promoting a fashion-based culture of disposable products and fighting every attempt to repair old devices and keep them working?
By constantly making hardware incompatible every few years?

But will it be Cook or Ternus who changes Lake Ontario to Lake America in Apple Maps? Will it be the last act of capitulation and sycophancy by Cook or the first by Ternus? Cook will either be a hard act to follow or an easy one...

Trump pushes Apple to change 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' on its maps

You're really hard to follow. iPhones never had removable batteries and almost no androids have them now. If you're talking about macs? Well, the removable batteries were removed before Steve Jobs left. IIRC, they weren't really removeable without taking the whole thing apart since the Power PC days. If you're pining for those days...well, I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you. Before they went intel, Macs were completely useless IMO. They were a garbage OS with reduced functionality selling to weird cult members who thought Windows can't support more than 8 characters in a file name. You'd pay twice as much as a windows laptop for something that was bested by an intel/AMD processor from 3 years prior....but hey, you got an elegant mouse with only one button! That's good for something, right???

If your complaint is design and removable batteries, Apple is not for you. There are plenty of alternatives. I hear Framework is pretty rad on the laptop side and I honestly don't know which specialty android phone let's you swap batteries these days.