Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "I made Apple a promise I'll never forget" video.

  1. One silver lining that I can think of, about all of this, is that if Apple spends so much effort into making these so much of a closed garden, at one point this effort will simply eat too much into their revenue. That is, it will cost them a lot on the manpower needed to design those things. And the things themselves will make the product cheaper / consume more / weigh more something like that. Well, so far it wasn't enough, but with time, maybe the competition will rise, and by virtue of simply not having to invest that much of everything into closing the garden, they will have the superior product. It's like hardened products vs normal consumer products. The hardened products are always more expensive, while at the same time having less performance. Well, at least in the normal conditions. In extreme weather for example, a hardened product will work, while a normal consumer one won't. In this case, Apple will have a hardened product, but not against natural elements, but against being repaired. And, I hope, at one point it will simply be inferior in performance or price/performance.
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  2.  @LeslieBurke8  True, I won't hold my breath either. Truth to be told, in some aspects, Apple have the superior product. Be it by design, performance or simply the ecosystem and the idea that things simply work. Hopefully, with the rise of Linux on desktops, maybe the superior part of the software will vanish as really good things will start to be supported for Linux too. And on the hardware side, both AMD and Intel made a comeback and have pretty good CPUs and APUs. Still have to catch up on performance/watt, but given that in general the performance needs haven't risen that much, the things you can do on 15W or lower have risen regardless. Apple will have another home run with M3 as it will be the first 3nm processor in the laptop space and again it will be significantly more powerful at the same very low power consumption. This is the same that they had with M1, first 5nm on the market. Now that AMD will come with 5nm, they will actually be better than M1 and M2, but that means nothing for the normal consumer, when AMD/Intel come with the good product almost 2 years later. Hopefully M3 and M4 will have better competition.
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