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Comment Re: Apple is Doomed! (Score 1) 121

I can walk over to Microcenter with $600 and walk out with a spiffy laptop with an 8 core snapdragon CPU, 16 gig of RAM and 1TB of storage - running Win 11, the same OS most companies & schools run. (Acer Aspire 14 and 16 laptops in specific)

Then go ahead if that is what you want. At this point, you will never buy a Mac and cannot see why someone would buy one.

Comment Re: Apple is Doomed! (Score 1) 121

What he probably means is eBay listings will have detailed technical descriptions. The webpages on laptops can be highly produced with artistic photos and flowery ad copy but lacking in details. Or worse a manufacturer makes multiple models with the same model name but significant differences. Trying to find technical specs may take the user to the wrong page. For example, I think Dell and Lenovo use the same name but one version uses AMD and one version uses Intel. Or even a Qualcomm chip. The eBay listing has to be accurate as a reputable seller has to eat a return because they listed the wrong CPU.

Comment Re:It's about the hardware (Score 1) 121

Windows 11 really isn't that bad.

That depends on your pain sensitivity. At work, they upgraded our machines from 10 to 11. Even though our version is customized to remove the ads, there are still pain points. For example, coming out of sleep does not seem like a major difference until you have to do something immediately like open Outlook calendar to see the details of your next meetings. In 10 it was responsive. It takes a full minute before Outlook responds to a basic function. Something is definitely clunky with the File Explorer as it seems slow to respond to opening folders on my machine not just network folders. I cannot imagine what home users have to deal with.

Comment Re:2010 called. (Score 1) 121

You're joking right? 256GB is not suitable for even a standard application drive with user cache these days on normal workloads. Install Photoshop on the drive and 10% of your disk space is gone. , . . God help you if you dare to install the Topza suite as well. The image resizing and noise reduction model alone consume 80GB

Yes because the Neo is heavily marketed to professional photographers . . . oh wait, no. It is to be a general purpose laptop. People can use Photoshop if they want to use that much disk space. That's like complaining my Honda Civic cannot carry a pallet of bricks weighing a ton. How dare Honda design my Civic that way!

These's aren't strange or unique things that normal people don't use. They are hobby tools for anyone with a camera. There's hundreds of other hobbies out there as well. The modern world requires storage.

If only made a MacBook model that is designed for professional photographers and video editors . . . maybe they should call such a model, the "Pro" or something like that. Or a less capable model for less that is in between a Pro and a Neo. . .

That's before we start talking about gaming (Death Stranding 2 consumes 150GB of disk space, more than half of that drive for a single game).

Yes because every advertisement I see from Apple is how the Neo is the next greatest gaming laptop . . . oh wait, no.. Again my Honda Civic still cannot carry a ton of bricks. Who is responsible for that?!!

Comment Re:Obvious this was going to be a success (Score 1) 121

I'm not surprised by its success, I'm just surprised that Apple are. I'm stunned their business case didn't imagine bigger volume.

The problem is that is writer's description of the issue. Apple may not consider it a "dilemma". Apple is selling off their binned A18 Pro chips that they could not sell before. Yes, Apple would like to sell as many Neos as they can but given the current state of computer manufacturing, adjusting to supply chain constraints is not easy. However, I suspect the alternative for Apple would have been to release a new Apple TV with A18 Pro. After all, the current model uses the A15 which was probably binned chips too and that supply might be running low by now.

Comment Re:And nothing of value was lost... (Score 1) 64

It's not confusing at all. You said yourself it's a superset.

Google RCS is a proprietary superset ONLY implemented by Google not the GSMA.

. And again it has a specific set of features that are fully backwards compatible.

The problem again which you fail to recognize is the fallback is to MMS as Google RCS was a proprietary extension to RCS.

Google has zero control over RCS. Everyone can implement RCS as per the GSMA standard and send messages to and from Google devices with no issue.

You are using the same misleading statements as Google. Google has control over Google RCS. Rather than call their protocol something different Googler "RCS" meaning both GSMA RCS and Google RCS al the time.

The fact that it doesn't support Google's end to end encryption has nothing to do with the standard and is of no impact to developers nor does it affect functionality of users.

Please show me in the GSMA RCS 2.0 specification how the carriers are supposed to handle Google RCS again? Oh wait, it does not because Google RCS is not RCS.

Comment Re:And nothing of value was lost... (Score 1) 64

The main problem was that Apple was deliberately degrading any message and capabilities related to RCS.

Google RCS is not RCS. That was the problem. It is a proprietary extension to RCS. The "degrade" you are talking about is when the default behavior of messages: Fallback to MMS.

They didn't implement some of the basic standard functionality, and when they did they also did client side degradations as well: e.g. auto-resize images to a significantly lower quality before sending them as an RCS vs an iMessage for absolutely no reason what so ever.

Again. Google RCS is not RCS. Proprietary extension is what Google RCS was.

Comment Re:And nothing of value was lost... (Score 1) 64

Google's proprietary extensions focus on features like encryption, and have nothing to do with the difficulties Apple users had sending photos and videos to Android users.

Well that is a bold faced lie. If Google uses a proprietary extensions on Android that is not a standard, why would you expect Apple to use that standard? You are also aware that I send photos and videos to Android users all the time right? The problem is the fallback technology is MMS which is over 20 years old.

Comment Re:never? (Score 1) 41

Actually, all phones had plastic displays for unbreakability untill the iPhone, indeed glass because shiny. Glass also conflicted with resistive touch sensing, but Apple/Jobs worked around that by pushing for a finger touch device.

Er what? You do know that Apple "worked around" that by employing capacitive multi-touch technology, right? They bought a company specifically for the patents and tech. Also you do know that Apple worked with Corning to make a type of glass that was rugged, thin, and strong enough for phones. Corning had been experimenting with Gorilla Glass for decades for other applications. Now Gorilla Glass is used in phones and laptops.

Typing on an on-screen keyboard, where your key presses are obscured by your finger is really not all that. Sadly, no alternative made it, partially for being too cumbersome, too expensive or just not from Apple

There have been alternatives as Blackberry existed after the iPhone was introduced for example some phone had sliding keyboards. No one wants them as the UI experience is lacking.

Comment Re: Entertainment, huh? (Score 1) 66

Apple introduced a $600 iPad with a keyboard.

That is a different model, the iPad Pro. The Neo runs MacOS.

It's (Mac) Netbook 2.0, nothing more than that.

Sure, if you want to live in denial. You can read or watch reviews of it online that details that is not true. Most if not all reviews say the same thing: It is a pretty good $600 laptop. It has flaws and it is not the best laptop but for your average consumer the price and capabilities align.

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