So apparently Apple actually was seriously considering purchasing Tesla, at least according to The NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/technology/behind-the-apple-car-dead.html
True, but they are both the goal -- for good reasons. In the case of autonomous cars:
40,000 people are killed, 2 million are injured annually in car accidents in the United States alone. These are completely intolerable numbers, and while the cars/trucks themselves can be blamed for some of...
So "Project Titan" is officially over.
That doesn't mean Apple should have bought Tesla while they had the chance (~2018), but it does offer proof that after a decade of trying Apple never came close to producing a car Apple execs considered worth attempting to sell.
Yes and no -- not all new tech toys are created equal. The Vision Pro does some absolutely unique things and opens up for new software. The foldable phone? Not so much
I don't doubt your choice on the price -- and like I said, EVs will get even less expensive in the near future due to the continued collapse in the price of batteries. But I did want to correct your take on Tesla pricing, which is often thought to be higher by tens of thousands of dollars than...
The EV we have, the Tesla Model Y, which, coincidentally was the best selling car (not just EV, but car, period) in the entire world in 2023, currently costs $43,990 for the RWD and $48,990 for the AWD Long Range (which is the one we have). This is before the $7,500 Federal incentive plus the...
The typical length of a stop at a V3 Tesla Supercharger is 15 ~ 20 minutes, not "hours". I don't know about you but when we are on a road trip I want to have a break of that length every few hours, to stretch, maybe have a snack or drink, go to the bathroom and give our dogs a short walk...
As someone who's first and only car ever is an EV (before we got it in the summer of 2020, it was strictly public transportation (subways, trains, planes - never a bus fan) and car rentals. I am a very strong EV advocate -- ours (a Tesla Model Y) has been a radically better experience than any...
Too lazy to go through all the comments (in my case I'm blanking on when I last/ever used these apps so not likely to miss them) but, this is a valid complaint: "Is it just me or is it harder to find stuff in the TV app?"
My top complaint: the Paramount+ section of the Apple TV app, which...
DHL a bargain?!? Not according to me -- I've had to use them twice to send a couple of 8 page documents to Bulgaria -- i.e. something that would fit in a regular mail envelope. Was almost $200 each. (I had no choice -- FedEx/UPS do not send stuff to Bulgaria, and USPS has no certified/Express...
My new 14" MacBook Pro has arrived, the new black color and yes, with 8TB of storage. Apple shipped it via DHL, who are not exactly user friendly -- basically impossible to communicate with them -- but it arrived, and I am very happy, still installing stuff.
Strictly my opinion: Any legacy car company (not just GM) will be out of business if they didn’t stop making gas cars long before 2035. Note, I am not saying that new, never mind millions upon millions of used ICE (aka gas), will stop existing. Horse and buggy carriages still exist in...
Absolutely, and that it what I do with my Intel MBP: but, I actually use my laptop as a ...laptop. Thus it makes a HUGE difference for me to have all my crucial data on an internal SSD.
So I am definitely going to get the 14" MacBookPro: I am still using a (by now) ancient intel MacBook Pro (and will continue to use for Aperture and MPEGStreamclip). Because of my vast amount of photos/videos that I still actively edit/view I need the 8TB SSD version -- and have been too scared...
I have had a Mastodon account for at least 5 years, long before Twitter/X was supposed to be bad (IMO, in many ways X has actually improved from years ago lately -- excellent live video support that did not exist before; better quality For You, etc.). But I am always open to others. Threads...
I agree, but I’ve lost my desire to regularly drag my Canon 5D with a 300mm lens to get the occasional fantastic pic. A photo like that of our schnauzers playing in the park just can’t happen without a serious telephoto lens. That’s why the an iPhone with120mm is so tempting— it gives you more...
Very, very happy with iOS/iPadOS 17 and watchOS 10 upgrades. Downloadable Apple Maps!!! iCloud Storage up to 12 TB -- finally -- I upgraded fro 2 to 6TB and am now busy restoring various videos I had deleted before. Lover the new Apple Watch UI
Still deciding whether to upgrade from iPhone 13...
I would immediately start working on importing all my old Aperture photos/videos to the current Photos app. I would start moving a boatload of videos to iCloud, etc.
Indeed using iCloud for macOS backups would be great!
Super happy about the new 12TB iCloud storage -- now if it is easy and straight forward for me to upgrade my Apple One Premier which come to with 2TB iCloud to 6TB or 12TB directly from my existing account, without jumping through hoops, I will be very, very, very happy.
Indeed! I have numerous ripped classical albums that don’t exist in Apple Music and I listen the most when traveling abroad using only downloaded music
?? I found out about it yesterday from my iPad’s Music App, which guided me to preorder it on the iPad. Hopefully it will run on the iPad, if that’s the case? Plenty of senior citizens listen to classical music, but depend on using an iPad because of it bigger screen — it would be completely...
More often than not, the Apple/Price criticism doesn't hold water, for one simple reason -- there never is a competitor with a better quality for a lower price. Same absolutely applies to HomePods: As the ADT podcast has pointed out several times, no one comes even close in the quality/price...
Watched the first episode last night, definitely very enjoyable (helps that I am a fan of both the lead actors):
One mild criticism -- there seems to be no subtitle method where you only get English (or French) subtitles when necessary -- i.e. I don't want English subtitles when they are...
That's what I care about: and if the new HomePods sound just as good or better than the old ones, their mere existence is a win.
As far Siri is concerned -- it is software: it can improve, indeed vastly improve in the future if Apple fixes/enhances the Siri software. You won't need a new...