LOL Goldman bailed. They lost a ton of money. And then Apple found out that they had enough leverage to foist it off on someone else. Then Apple ‘pulls plug’.

See, their greed is starting to become Walmart-esque, where they burn all their suppliers.

LOL just like all the Macs that have been compromised right.

Yes I know how that works.

Apple seemed to think that a huge leap from Intel to M1 would pull in conquest sales and a market for annual iterations. Obviously not.

For what it’s worth, the entry level M1 is more computer than most everyone needs these days. It’s still obscenely powerful for typical usage.

There was a real distinction then in hardware. Screen size and chassis size but also storage, disk drives and ports. Real qualitative differences, not just quantitative.

Now it’s all vanilla in different containers. All this stuff now has the same ports - but different quantities - the same storage type, the same CPUs. They’re slicing very thinly now.

Can users really tell the difference between a 15" MBA and MBP? An M1 vs M2 chip? I’m skeptical.

I know it works, it’s a quasi-luxury brand, this stuff happens. I don’t have to like it.

They definitely expected more uptake from M2 and M3 not realizing how much they lost by dropping x86.

Turning into HP now, or Samsung. All these models that are slightly different.

That’s my point alright! Thank you!

They’re really coming to grips with how far they outkicked their coverage with the A chips.

Without gaming, without the business server market, there’s no one to upgrade m2s and m3s to on a yearly cadence. The M1 is already ridiculously powerful for most of their customer base. A CPU this powerful should have shook up the industry, instead it just dragged all their long term customer purchases forward to a single year thereabouts and then back to normal.

If anything, their conquest sales will take a hit for lack of Windows support.0