Boycott them. Really, do it and buy AMD GPUs instead. The only way they will bring their prices down.
AMD did the same thing, though.
Wasn’t aware. Just a couple of months ago their GPUs were reasonably priced. If they did the same thing, they probably did it less aggressively than Nvidia. Anyways, this is what happens whenever you have few players in the game and you end up in a duopoly with Intel trying to enter the club.
No shit.
Scapegoat in 3.2…
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all. - Maynard-Keynes
Keynes on Communism and Marxism:
"How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeoisie and the intelligentsia, who with all their faults, are the quality of life and surely carry the seeds of all human achievement?”
John Maynard Keynes, “A Short View of Russia” (1925), in Essays in Persuasion (1933). Web
I dont want to get into the merits of the quote, but here is the original, and it wasnt said by keynes.:
But by far the strongest resistance to drastic action comes from those who would say, if they sought at all to express their motives, that inequality of incomes is inevitable and even desirable in a world in which individuals are born with unequal talents. You must leave the efficient man as well as the inefficient the motive to exert himself to the utmost. The great merit of the capitalist system, it has been said, is that it succeeds in using the nastiest motives of nasty people for the ultimate benefit of society
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/23/capitalism-motives/
No shit. That’s the entire bubble. None of it is real money.
It is real investor money, unfortunately.
So is this it? the bubble popping? Feels like the bill is due and we knew the fakery was happening but I wouldn’t be surprised if this also gets swept under the rug
Doubtful. If hardware prices actually drop, which remains to be seen, AI becomes cheaper to run, which will accelerate adoption.
They can’t be the only market doing this? 🚗 🚗 🚗
This kind of seems like a nothing burger IMO. The circular financing has been public info for some time, the only part of this that is news is that it was mentioned in the WSJ.
And yet, easily half of Wall Street still has no idea.
So what now, am I gonna be able to afford a couple of HDDs for my server, or was this all just empty fuss?
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Oh, they’ve been assholes long before AI was a thing
And the competitors are as full of shit 🤣
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lmao apple as the paragon of pro-consumer behaviour is one hell of an idea.
the main reason their os isn’t full of ai is because they’re mad they didn’t invent it. they insisted the longest to call it machine learning instead, and when they switched over they called it “apple intelligence”. but they aren’t avoiding it, they just suck at it, and they always want to call everything by another name and present it a different way so it’s special and “magical” when it’s on their devices.
but behind all that cultish nonsense they have had ai features for ages, often randomly pushed, and they too have reoriented their cpu architecture to include ai processing and run llms. they just have a mainly hardware business instead of a mainly software one, so they tend to emphasise device-dependent local systems instead of cloud apps that work on any device.
and that’s on top of locking down everything, because they want to mediate computers to you. imo that’s the big issue with apple, they don’t want to give you any access to your own tech, because technology is magic and you’re not a wizard, they are. that’s not specifically ai-related though, but it does inform their handling of ai too, and it’s the main reason apple should have been on your list of companies not to buy from way before chatgpt blew up.
Man, that was a rant and a half.
I would argue that apple is pro-consumer, having bought a dozen of their machines in this century, for a handful of key reasons. You’re welcome to disagree, but you asked, so I’m going to put forward most succinctly what I’m able.
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They back their products, with actual warranty and actual talent. I have had an ipad, a Macbook pro, and iphone, a MacBook Air and other devices replaced at The Genius bar when there was a hardware fault that wasn’t any mistake of my own. One time I bought a refurbished iPad off of Groupon, and it was clearly a hack job, but Apple replaced it for me at the Genius bar for the cost of a battery replacement. Ditto a refurbished MacBook Air off eBay genius Bar replacement for the whole unit.
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They built a lot of their software on standards based technologies, and actually have contributed in part to open source projects early on, even if that’s not their way these days. As far as being a hardware business, they actually craft quality products that can last a long time, and like I said before they will back their brand and support or replace hardware when it doesn’t.
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They have done more for Consumer privacy than Google has, they have respected individual user privacy more than Microsoft has, and while you could say that benchmark standard is literally in hell, i would point out that I have been using my last 3 apple laptops without any Apple account or Cloud user b*******, all local user only.
I’ve never been opted into all of their AI, beyond allowing Siri to take dictation from me which I opted into.
There’s more but I imagine reading this is tedious, I’m just pointing out that Apple has commanded a premium for their products but that they haven’t squandered that value like so many others that are aggressively enshitifying.
notice how none of the arguments you had contradicted any of my points for why they suck. you just highlighted some other ways in which they happen to not suck.
this is textbook iFan tribalism. i’m not here to fanboy over any tech, i’m here to call out apple on trying to own computing and lock you out of it. the fact that you felt like you had to attack me over it, trying to paint me as unreasonable, while your main point is basically just “yeah but everyone else sucks more” shows that you really need to reevaluate your attachment to megacorporations.
apple isn’t a scrappy underdog. they’re one of the largest corporations on the planet. they don’t need you in the trenches fighting off their competition, they can run their own ads.
I wasn’t trying to line by line argue your statements, I was offering my own.
I’m not beholden tp apple, and only have two of their devices in my fleet today.
You are right that they are most reliable and privacy respecting mutherfuckers in my Armada of machines, without me having to gut-and-replace the OS or add insane layers of additional security like I have to with all other mobile and desktop devices. You’re right that I like them for reasons that aren’t the same as the reasons you seem to dislike them.
Worth mention, this is a community, and these communities will only be as healthy as we show up to in them. How are we going to encourage each other today? Because I’m getting a lot of discouragement from you, and it’s on us to build Lemmy and the pockets of places we congregate.
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And why is that? What do they do that’s pro consumer?
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They make the hardware, of course their own software is well supported in it.
Completely closed source and no independent privacy auditing means their marketing determines how people view their privacy features. They have never proven it. They own the walled garden, the users are just guests.
They don’t “sell your data to advertisers”, but they do “share your data with partners”. So not much of a difference.
There are tons of actual, provable anti-consumer practices. Feel free to google it yourself, but this article is a good primer, with sources.
https://truthout.org/articles/apple-leads-smartphone-industry-into-anti-consumer-environmental-hell/
