home.social

#apple-mac — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #apple-mac, aggregated by home.social.

fetched live
  1. Apple może podwoić bazę użytkowników Mac – zmiana strategii

    Analitycy Asymco wskazują, że Apple może podjąć nietypowy krok: tymczasowo obniżyć marże, aby szybciej zwiększyć udział w rynku komputerów Mac.

    Zamiast przerzucać rosnące koszty pamięci (napędzane boomem AI) na klientów, firma utrzymuje ceny, gdy konkurencja je podnosi.

    Zdaniem ekspertów, to celowa strategia – Apple inwestuje więcej w komponenty, jednocześnie utrudniając sytuację rywalom działającym na niższych marżach. Straty na sprzęcie mają być rekompensowane przez dochodowy segment usług (subskrypcje).

    Apple wstrzymuje zamówienia na wybrane konfiguracje Mac mini i Mac Studio

    Jednak Horace Dediu, znany analityk zajmujący się firmą Apple, stwierdził, że on sam oraz co najmniej dwóch innych analityków uważa, iż firma mogła podjąć decyzję o priorytetowym traktowaniu wzrostu w czasie, gdy wielu jej konkurentów boryka się z trudnościami. Przytacza on argumenty analityka z Seaport, Jaya Goldberga, który twierdzi, że Apple wykorzystuje fakt, iż jej konkurenci działają przy znacznie niższych marżach, aby zwiększyć swój udział w rynku, opierając się na przychodach z nowych usług, które pomagają zrównoważyć budżet.

    Apple płaci wyższą cenę za zakup chipów pamięci, co według Goldberga jest „częścią celowej strategii firmy mającej na celu zaostrzenie warunków dla konkurentów” […] Strategia ta „nie będzie tania dla Apple” – ostrzegł Goldberg, zauważając, że marża brutto na produktach Apple może spaść do poziomu około 30% z poziomu ponad 30% odnotowanego rok temu.

    „Uważamy jednak, że firma może nadrobić część tych strat dzięki wzrostowi udziału w rynku” – napisał, ponieważ nowi użytkownicy Apple prawdopodobnie wykupią usługi subskrypcyjne Apple o wyższej marży, aby zrównoważyć koszty sprzętu.

    Zgodził się z tym drugi cytowany analityk, a sam Dediu uważa, że wpływ tej strategii może być dramatyczny.

    Kluczowym wskaźnikiem jest liczba użytkowników komputerów Mac. 260 milionów to rozsądne założenie [dla obecnej bazy zainstalowanych urządzeń], a podwojenie bazy użytkowników komputerów Mac jest z pewnością wartościowym i osiągalnym celem na następną dekadę.

    Efekt? Baza użytkowników Mac, dziś szacowana na ok. 260 mln, może nawet się podwoić w ciągu dekady. Pomóc w tym mają m.in. atrakcyjnie wycenione modele, jak MacBook Neo.

    #analizaApple #AppleAI #AppleMac #AppleMarża #AppleUsługi #cenyKomputerów #MacBook #MacbookNeo #rynekKomputerów #strategiaApple #wzrostUżytkownikówMac
  2. 🎶 Happy Birthday, Apple! 🎶🎂❤️

    Back in the day... long, long ago. In a little town far, far away. A love affair with tech blossomed. A "young lady" (me) found herself with 0's and 1's.

    Yes, they still work! I've moved them several times. Can't part with them.

    #HappyBirthday
    #AppleMac

  3. 🎶 Happy Birthday, Apple! 🎶🎂❤️

    Back in the day... long, long ago. In a little town far, far away. A love affair with tech blossomed. A "young lady" (me) found herself with 0's and 1's.

    Yes, they still work! I've moved them several times. Can't part with them.

    #HappyBirthday
    #AppleMac

  4. Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.

    I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.

    Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.

    It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.

    Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.

    "Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".

    #Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac

  5. Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.

    I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.

    Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.

    It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.

    Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.

    "Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".

    #Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac

  6. For #MARCHintosh here's a playlist of PeerTube videos about the Apple Macintosh series of computers:

    :apple_old_logo: fedi.video/w/p/pvDUZ5ertnHPQhf

    - Watching on a phone: Swipe up first two videos at bottom to browse rest of playlist

    - Watching on a computer: Choose video by scrolling through playlist on right of screen

    - Watching embedded: Click ⏭️ or ⏮️ to see next or previous videos in playlist

    #FeaturedPlaylist #Macintosh #Mac #AppleMac #PeerTube

  7. For #MARCHintosh here's a playlist of PeerTube videos about the Apple Macintosh series of computers:

    :apple_old_logo: fedi.video/w/p/pvDUZ5ertnHPQhf

    - Watching on a phone: Swipe up first two videos at bottom to browse rest of playlist

    - Watching on a computer: Choose video by scrolling through playlist on right of screen

    - Watching embedded: Click ⏭️ or ⏮️ to see next or previous videos in playlist

    #FeaturedPlaylist #Macintosh #Mac #AppleMac #PeerTube

  8. 29 years after first version, new version 2.0 of NoSTalgia, #AtariST computers emulator for Apple Mac nostalgia.pghsoftware.be/ #atari #applemac #macos

  9. 29 years after first version, new version 2.0 of NoSTalgia, #AtariST computers emulator for Apple Mac nostalgia.pghsoftware.be/ #atari #applemac #macos

  10. Het Tooters, ik mag wellicht een Fairphone 6. Die moet samenwerken met mijn mac (vooral agenda). Welk besturingssyteem is dan handig? En wat zijn andere mogelijke aandachtspunten?
    #durftevragen
    #fairphone
    #eos
    #AppleMac

  11. Het Tooters, ik mag wellicht een Fairphone 6. Die moet samenwerken met mijn mac (vooral agenda). Welk besturingssyteem is dan handig? En wat zijn andere mogelijke aandachtspunten?
    #durftevragen
    #fairphone
    #eos
    #AppleMac

  12. 4/5 On Thursday was Mobocracy - a gritty #AppleMac side-scroller set in a post-apocalyptic world. Ambitious but unfinished, only fragments remain - enough to imagine how it could have been. More details at:

    gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/mo

  13. 4/5 On Thursday was Mobocracy - a gritty #AppleMac side-scroller set in a post-apocalyptic world. Ambitious but unfinished, only fragments remain - enough to imagine how it could have been. More details at:

    gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/mo

  14. A quick recap of posts this week (21st-25th July) at Games That Weren't, with more #GameBoy, #GameBoyColor, #SNES, #AppleMac and #AmstradCPC content. Five posts to follow! Have a great weekend all!

  15. A quick recap of posts this week (21st-25th July) at Games That Weren't, with more #GameBoy, #GameBoyColor, #SNES, #AppleMac and #AmstradCPC content. Five posts to follow! Have a great weekend all!

  16. Mobocracy was a gritty #AppleMac side-scroller set in a post-apocalyptic world. Ambitious but unfinished, only fragments remain - enough to imagine how it could have been. More details at:

    gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/mo

  17. Mobocracy was a gritty #AppleMac side-scroller set in a post-apocalyptic world. Ambitious but unfinished, only fragments remain - enough to imagine how it could have been. More details at:

    gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/mo

  18. 📊 Apple domina il mercato Mac nel Q1 2025 con crescita del 28,7%, raggiungendo quota 16% in America. Gli analisti avvertono: è un'impennata dovuta all'anticipo delle spedizioni per evitare i nuovi dazi sui prodotti cinesi. #TechNews #AppleMac #MercatoPC

  19. 📊 Apple domina il mercato Mac nel Q1 2025 con crescita del 28,7%, raggiungendo quota 16% in America. Gli analisti avvertono: è un'impennata dovuta all'anticipo delle spedizioni per evitare i nuovi dazi sui prodotti cinesi. #TechNews #AppleMac #MercatoPC

  20. On the Frootloop Monkeytosh computer front the key thing is: AeroSpace: github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpa

    If you're a "tiling" Window Manager user like me then AeroSpace totally transforms the Mac experience. You can almost forget there's a mouse attached. It's all very familiar if you're an XMonad* user. It isn't quite perfectly seamless, but it's a whole other world of usability for me.

    I've got quite a nice modernised setup working at the moment, with AeroSpace, iTerm2, Fish shell, Atuin shell history, and Neovim... still more to enhance, I've barely dipped my toe in with Neovim's capabilities (and currently have nothing like my old vim uber-config running, that's on the TODO list.)

    * My dev-box window manager history is: WindowMakXer => FVWM => PWM => Ion => XMonad... admittedly this home desktop currently runs XFCE because I've never really needed it to be a hardcore coding environment.

    #WindowManager #Apple #AppleMac #Macintosh #Dev #Coding

  21. On the Frootloop Monkeytosh computer front the key thing is: AeroSpace: github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpa

    If you're a "tiling" Window Manager user like me then AeroSpace totally transforms the Mac experience. You can almost forget there's a mouse attached. It's all very familiar if you're an XMonad* user. It isn't quite perfectly seamless, but it's a whole other world of usability for me.

    I've got quite a nice modernised setup working at the moment, with AeroSpace, iTerm2, Fish shell, Atuin shell history, and Neovim... still more to enhance, I've barely dipped my toe in with Neovim's capabilities (and currently have nothing like my old vim uber-config running, that's on the TODO list.)

    * My dev-box window manager history is: WindowMakXer => FVWM => PWM => Ion => XMonad... admittedly this home desktop currently runs XFCE because I've never really needed it to be a hardcore coding environment.

    #WindowManager #Apple #AppleMac #Macintosh #Dev #Coding

  22. Apple: Kaikki Intel-pohjaiset Mac-tietokoneet ovat nyt virallisesti vanhentuneita

    Vanhtentuneeksi (obsolete) luokittelu tarkoittaa sitä, että tuotteelle ei enää ole tarjolla virallisia huoltopalveluita eikä varaosien saatavuutta enää taata.

    Viimeisenä Intel-Maccina vanhentuneeksi siirrettiin vuonna 2018 julkaistu Mac Mini.

    dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/04/18/app

    #intel #apple #macmini #applemac #uutiset #teknologia #tekniikka

  23. Apple: Kaikki Intel-pohjaiset Mac-tietokoneet ovat nyt virallisesti vanhentuneita

    Vanhtentuneeksi (obsolete) luokittelu tarkoittaa sitä, että tuotteelle ei enää ole tarjolla virallisia huoltopalveluita eikä varaosien saatavuutta enää taata.

    Viimeisenä Intel-Maccina vanhentuneeksi siirrettiin vuonna 2018 julkaistu Mac Mini.

    dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/04/18/app

    #intel #apple #macmini #applemac #uutiset #teknologia #tekniikka

  24. Benchmark-Test: M3 Ultra und M4 Max nahezu gleichauf in CPU-Leistung
    Apple hat den neuen Mac Studio mit M3 Ultra und M4 Max vorgestellt. Während Apple den M3 Ultra als doppelt so leistungsstark wie den M4 Max bewirbt, zeigen aktuelle Benchmark-Tests, dass der Unterschie
    apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/benc
    #Mac #News #Apple #AppleMac #AppleSilicon #CPUBenchmark #Geekbench #GPULeistung #M3Ultra #M4Max #MacPro #MacStudio

  25. Benchmark-Test: M3 Ultra und M4 Max nahezu gleichauf in CPU-Leistung
    Apple hat den neuen Mac Studio mit M3 Ultra und M4 Max vorgestellt. Während Apple den M3 Ultra als doppelt so leistungsstark wie den M4 Max bewirbt, zeigen aktuelle Benchmark-Tests, dass der Unterschie
    apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/benc
    #Mac #News #Apple #AppleMac #AppleSilicon #CPUBenchmark #Geekbench #GPULeistung #M3Ultra #M4Max #MacPro #MacStudio

  26. Macs im Euroraum: Apple erhöht die Preise für SSD, RAM und mehr
    Apple hat die Preise für Speicher- und RAM-Upgrades bei Macs im Euroraum angehoben. Während die Dollarpreise in den USA unverändert bleiben, steigen die Zuschläge für zusätzli
    apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/macs
    #Mac #News #Apple #AppleMac #EuroDollarUmrechnung #Euroraum #MacMini #MacBookAir #MacBookPro #Preiserhhung #RAMUpgrade #SpeicherUpgrades #SSDPreise

  27. @MichaelRoss

    #VideoStreaming #Foss #Kodi

    (2/2)

    #FireTV Stick, Fire TV Cube, #Nvidia #ShieldTV,
    #Android Smartphones and Tablets, #AndroidTV boxes, #Windows-Computer, and #AppleMac / #Macintosh..."

    So, regardless of the device, only one tool needs to be learned and maintained across all your devices.

    I'll have to look into this.

    //