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Apple Preparing M4 Chips with AI Capabilities to Fight Declining Mac Sales

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Beginner Macro Device said:
I sold my iPhone for the reason they couldn't even make a Telegram app that's not complete bollocks. Literally everything requires at least two taps more than on the Android app which is by no mean perfect. They also banned Russian banking apps so monetary operations became a major PITA. This certainly does hinder their sales since both online banking and Telegram are very high priority here in Russia.

Apple are a miss for me in case of PCs because you can't game on macs. Yeah, you can technically install Windows and can technically launch some games but a quote-unquote normal PC of half the price gets you 4+ times more FPS. Also much lesser chance of glitches and crashes.

AI... no one but a couple mad scientists needs that. Canonical buzzword.
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Yep and there's much better actual pro laptops that are much better and cost far less like the framework, Dell xps and precision!!
 
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cvaldes said:
Again, that's your particular anti-Apple bias showing itself. If the Redfall game sucks, do you blame your PC maker? The GPU maker? Your PSU maker?
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There is no anti-Apple bias in me. Their products lack a thing I need, I quit using them. This is the whole story.
cvaldes said:
But there are people who do and you can't disclaim their needs.
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Of course. That's why I initially stated it's my personal reason. Why you are tryna make me the main antagonist that decides for everyone, I don't know.
 
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Beginner Macro Device said:
There is no anti-Apple bias in me. Their products lack a thing I need, I quit using them. This is the whole story.

Of course. That's why I initially stated it's my personal reason. Why you are tryna make me the main antagonist that decides for everyone, I don't know.
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Yeah I always tell people to use the right tool for the job and sometimes it's the OS you know so stick with Windows or Mac (iOS or Android) if that's what you know best. But sometimes the tools are only available or clearly better on one platform so investing the time and money on a switch will pay off.

I'm a longtime Apple user from the pre-Mac days but I got into PCs/Windows for gaming because that's the right tool for the job and I invested the time and money in learning it.
 
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