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I don’t have the money, can I kiss you twice instead?

That’s what started it all for me tbh :D

If you think the current model fulfills your needs and it’s worth the asking price to you, keep them. If not, don’t.

Why would you already plan on buying the next generation when you don’t even know what improvements they bring?

8, you have to use both feet the same amount.

That should snowball quite a bit considering remaining personnel probably has to work more hours to compensate for missing personnel.

The last paragraph is great.

And why exactly would these customers get a MacBook “Pro”?

I can see how a MacBook Air with low base specs (8/256) has its audience. I recommended a base spec M1 Air to my aunt 1-2 years ago and she absolutely loves it. She got it for about 950,-€ I think, and with her coming from Windows laptops costing half as much at most, there was no way she would’ve spent more than 1.000,-€. She does some surfing, mailing, word processing, video conferencing and photo library management (using iCloud Photos). It’s completely fine - might even say pretty great - for that.

Nowadays you can find some deals where the base M2 Air is < 1.000,-€, and that’s also a decent deal.

The base model M3 MacBook Pro is 1.999,-€. Now Apple magically added 200,-€ after accounting for taxes and exchange rate ($1,599 is about 1.500,-€, add taxes to that and you’re at 1.785,-€, so 1.799,-€ should’ve been the price, but they made it 1.999,-€ anyway), but even if third party sellers sell it for like 1.800,-€ in a few months, it’s still 800,-€ more than the base model Air. I know you get more ports, a way nicer screen etc., that’s not my point. My point is that people who are looking for a “good enough for simple tasks” laptop usually don’t shop in that price range, and people who do usually have higher requirements than 8 GB of RAM.

Well, they could decide to not gimp their base models and make storage and RAM upgrades cheaper, like you say. The new base M3 MacBook Pro only exists to upsell you to a M3 Pro MacBook Pro.

If they feel like they have to have a normal M3 MacBook Pro model, they at least shouldn’t gimp it and give it 16 GB of RAM as default. Also, add another display controller to the base M3. We all know you don’t do it just so you can upsell to an M3 Pro.

Like I said in another thread, Apple (like all companies) always try to upsell and that’s fine as a concept, but these days some of the lower-end products sole reason of existence is to upsell the customer to a more expensive product. Make these lower-end products good products.

And yeah, storage and RAM upgrades should cost half as much at most. 16/512 should absolutely be the minimum default on $1,000+ computers as well.

Also, why would people upgrade from an M1 or M2 based Mac to an M3 based one? The vast majority of people won’t.

You brought up towns <50k having train stations, and I was basically saying that simply because there is a train station (in the town next to mine, which has >20k population) doesn’t mean it’s great relying on it. I then also went ahead and gave you examples of bad experiences I had completely independent of where I live.

What you say about “the picture I paint” is something I could’ve said about you the other way around. If I’m in the minority, how come there’s so much negativity towards public transit, and yes, also from people living in big cities? This leads to nowhere.

The part you quoted is literally how people work, they pick what they think is best for them based on their own experiences.

Anyways, I won’t elaborate further. I simply wanted to share my experience without having to justify how it’s not “disingenuous” or “propaganda”.

Everything I mentioned in my comment is either something I experienced myself (multiple times), or I directly know someone who experienced it. If it reads like propaganda to you, I don’t know what to say. It is what it is.

Punctuality is very much a mixed bag regional and S trains are usually pretty good here in Köln, there are delays of course but half of them seem to be idiots walking on the tracks which I don’t really attribute to DB.

Köln is what I’d say is a big (enough) city where you probably don’t need a car, because public transport inside the city is at least decent.

But and this is the actually important thing that makes it all worth it, they run a ton of service, to a just insane number of stations. You can legitimately use it for all your travel if you just impose a time buffer about as long as the initial trip. From everywhere to everywhere in this country, usually for under 50€ if you just plan the slightest bit, or with the Deutschlandticket travel regio.

The amount of stations we have in towns of under 50k people might be among the highest in the world. The amount of people within x km of a station with regular (usually at worst hourly) service is enormous. The amount of track per person both in the country as well as company is staggering.

Sure, most cities have a station. But there are a lot of small towns or villages which have 1-2 bus stops at best. Where I live (~4,000 people), there’s a bus coming about every hour, starting from 6:30am and ending at 8pm (!). Good luck going out in the evening when you have to be back before 8pm. I guess you could walk from the next bigger town, but that takes around an hour and after a busy day, you might not fancy walking for that long. In this bigger town there’s a train station, and no it’s not safe. It’s a place where illegal activities are happening on a regular basis once it’s dark outside.

It’s not about comparing DB to the rest of the world. You need to compare public transit to cars/car infrastructure and then provide something that’s at least as good if you want more people to use it. And where I live, it’s not even close. Having to plan an entire trip multiple weeks ahead of time to get acceptable pricing is ridiculous and doesn’t always work. Get sick? Unlucky, either no refunds at all or they’re very expensive. And “Flex” pricing is ridiculously expensive, you can pay 150,-€ (and more) for a 2nd class ticket across the country. Sure, you can get a BahnCard 50 or whatever, but then it’s still 75,-€ plus the cost of the BahnCard. Even when you’re driving the car alone, fuel + wear and tear is usually cheaper than one “Flex” ticket. Traveling with 2-4 persons and you need to get 2-4 tickets, I found a route across the country (~470 km) where one ticket is 120,-€, so 240-480,-€ with 2-4 persons. 470 km in a car would cost 94,-€ in fuel assuming the car consumes 10 l/100 km (which it shouldn’t) and 1 l costs 2,-€, and then you have 26,-€ left to 120,-€ for car maintenance caused by these 470 km. Travel with 2-4 persons and it’s way worse. Sure, you don’t have to drive yourself and that’s a big thing, but the price gap is huge once you’re 2 or more people, and you’d easily arrive two hours earlier by car, and that’s assuming nothing goes wrong on the trip by train.

Another simple example would be the dentist for me. With a car, I drive 15 minutes (on a Sunday drive) to my dentist, checkup takes say 15 minutes as well, and back I go in another 15 minutes. 45 minutes is all it takes, I can basically do that during my lunch break. With public transport, I’d have to take the bus which takes 40 minutes (!) to the target location, add 5 minutes of walking time (so 45 minutes), and assuming the dentist takes longer than 8 minutes I’d have to wait about 40 minutes for the next bus to arrive, then take the bus back which takes another 45 minutes including walking back home. So 130 minutes, and that’s assuming that the appointment perfectly aligns with the bus schedule. That’s a huge difference of 45 vs 130+ minutes. I kind of value my time, you know? When traveling by car, I also have the option of quickly grabbing takeaway lunch on my way back to work.

Trust me, if it wouldn’t limit me so much and cost so much time to go public transport only where I live, I’d be the first person to do it. I don’t enjoy driving my car, I see it more as a necessity. I use trains for longer distances (when going on vacation or whatever), and if it all works out, it’s an okay experience. Sure, it takes two hours longer and it’s a bit more expensive even when traveling alone (I’m rather spontaneous most of the time), but I personally don’t mind that as long as it at least works as advertised. But often, it doesn’t.

I did a city trip with a few friends of mine this year where we travelled to a new city almost every day for about 10 days. We planned it in a way so that cities were no more than 2,5 hours apart. In theory…in practice, while that worked sometimes, we had two occasions where it took over 6 hours instead to arrive. Kind of sucks when you only have this same day to spend in the city, and it already starts to get dark when you arrive. On the trips that were in time, many trains were still completely overloaded and had non-working air conditioning, sometimes with 30 degrees C outside (you can imagine how hot it was inside the train). With a rather tight schedule and after days and days of travel, you’d sure enjoy getting a seat in a train, and working air conditioning.

Anyways, enough about my experiences. Great if it works for you, but as I said, if you/they want people to switch up the way they do things, there needs to be an alternative that’s at least as good, but preferably better.

10 minutes? Ahh, if the problems with Deutsche Bahn would stop at 10 minutes late…that would almost be great.

2 hours late, trains not coming at all, skipping stops, having to take a completely different route just so you arrive at some point, but even then it’s 6 hours late. Trains being overcrowded, air conditioning failing or not being there in the first place, seat reservation systems failing, the list goes on and on.

Add to that that many smaller cities and especially villages have a single bus line that has one bus driving every 1-2 hours, but only until 8pm or whatever. Not only DB’s fault, but also of the local traffic association. Public transport is a complete joke in Germany. You need a car unless you live in a big city or don’t care about your sanity at all.

More problems include train stations often being a center for criminal activity, and smaller train stations offering no security personnel whatsoever. I know many people who are afraid to travel by train, especially after dark. And they have every reason to be, as (sexual) assault (especially towards women), robbery, drug dealing activities (list goes on) are quite the reality.

They do it because of greed and the everlasting thirst of large companies to grow bigger and bigger.

They literally gave Windows 10 and 11 away for free if you had Windows 7 or 8.

Many if not most people pay for Windows in the form of licensing costs included in the price of a device, mainly laptops. Most laptops come with Windows preinstalled, and Microsoft earns with every laptop sold with Windows preinstalled. People building their own PC and getting an OEM key for cheap off of eBay or pasting a one-liner into PowerShell are the minority.

Do you really expect people to go out of their way to purchase a retail Windows license when they already have a perfectly valid and activated version of Windows preinstalled on their device?

And now that Windows 10/11 is a nice mix of adware, bloatware, nagware and spyware, do you really think it’s worth $199 (for the “Pro” version)?

It’s a business model Microsoft deliberately chose. Guess what? They were doing just fine before doing what they do now, despite of a few “software pirates”.

I’d happily pay even a subscription fee for Windows if Microsoft didn’t try to shove their crap down my throat every chance they get.

Thanks for the explanation.

It’s not like Pegasus is exploiting a single bug in iOS, there are probably hundreds of different ways Pegasus got onto phones over the years. Known security bugs get patched.

Pegasus isn’t a single piece of software, it’s a big toolkit, constantly updated. It’s a race similar to ads vs. ad blockers.

It’s not a problem exclusive to iOS either. Pegasus works on Android phones as well.

I prefer it to Google Maps in most cases now. The Google Maps app is very bloated nowadays.

Apple Maps has very detailed maps, has its version of “Street View” in many areas where Google Maps doesn’t (at least here in Germany) and it’s a lot smoother, navigation is better, and Apple Watch integration seamless. Public transit is also decent.

The only thing I still use Google Maps for is to get information about restaurants and such, where Google Maps tends to have more data. Being able to download an area for offline use in Google Maps also helps in a pinch, but that’s coming to Apple Maps with iOS 17 as well.

If it’s updated by the community, it’s probably also created by the community. Instead of dreaming, why not create it?

Many people here seem to have very strong opinions about GitHub :D

Yep. AppCode and Rider aside, the functionality of all other JetBrains IDEs can be replicated with IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. I have to say that I still like the language-specific IDEs though because they are a lot less bloated and the default configuration fits a lot better.