Don't let perfect be the enemy of good
I love you. This is something so many people need to hear, and crucially, understand.
It's a special kind of whataboutism to always claim that nothing is good enough. Nudges in the right direction matter. We're so tied up in the perfect solution that the nudges fail, and here we are.
Comical at this point. Eventually people just stop following these "orders".
Rome fell when most of its population no longer saw its government as legitimate.
Maybe. I find that to be a really weird business strategy. But, maybe their analysts are very confident that console gaming is rapidly dying. If not.... shrug.
So presidential!
If you're the president of a shady gambling company.
A broken clock is right twice a day.
I do hope those sheeple who followed her so diligently for so long are given a little pause, at least. But without intelligent thought to back that up, she'll just fade away.
Part of a much larger trend of companies finding out that there is a limit to consumer spending, and most consumers are already beyond it.
So this is just one big circle jerk war?
Yes, and a key observation might be: the oligarchy being discussed more and more in the US is not constrained to the US. There is (in a practical sense, not an official one) a single world government controlled entirely by the rich who are currently circle-jerking.
Lapdog when invited onto lap: "should I go up there?"
But he always does.
This used to be the logic behind the iPod. In fact, it was referred to as the "iPod halo effect". So I would not be surprised if that is a key reason for the pricing.
Binning has been a thing forever. Apple isn't new in selling processors that are technically nerfed versions of better ones. It's not shady either -- the chips were binned exactly because they were tested.
What I find more interesting is that Apple is also dealing with what happened on the PC side a while ago: processors get so fast that the differences between mid-range and high-end don't really show up in typical day-to-day workflows. Apple is right to think that this gives them a chance to gain market share by selling a Mac which is significantly cheaper, but to what effect? Apple hardware has been the expensive option for a long time, and one could argue that a lot of brand identity is tied up in high prices, because people perceive "most expensive" as "the best". I can't think of a brand on the PC side which has been happy to stay at the top of the price range for so long.
So a cheap Mac is decidedly off-brand for Apple. Will people spend thousands extra for a machine that feels mostly the same for everyday workloads?
It's fascinating in a way. It's like a petri dish of brain cells, and one day the researcher points at a screen and goes "you see that blip?! That's brain activity."
Sadly mods won't fix the fact you have to play a loading screen.
The fact that Bethesda thought they could get away with their ancient engine once again is laughable.