Apple wasn’t ever interested in supporting that niche at budget prices because there’s little money to be made there.
Not true. Difference in cost between USB 2&3 is negligible. They’ve just done this to create artificial value for the “Pro” models. Same way they create artificial value with ram and storage.
Q-OLED and kind of fell in love. Was ready to purchase one until, I was not. I found out it’s not a good match for productivity usage due to burn-in issue
This is an old view carrying over from old monitors. It wasn’t much of an issue before and definitely isn’t now. People have been trying to intentionally burn in OLED monitors to show how difficult it is. Like, leaving it on the same bright image on full brightness 24/7 and it takes months to generate any sort of noticeable burn-in.
This is just the way it works. Things stay the way they are until someone has the balls to make a change. Once one party does, all the other parties see it as a signal that they can also raise the price.
Remember when Android phones used to be like $400-500? Apple saw the end of that, others followed their lead. To this day you can still buy very good phones for that price, but the majority of phones have moved into the $1k+ market.
Honestly I’m okay with games being priced at whatever they’re worth instead of some arbitrary fixed price based on industry norms.
That’s one of the situations that’s perfect for EVs because they have tons of torque but also can run in reverse, thus saving you brakes from overheating and wearing out, while actually recharging the battery. Was cool when I went to Colorado watching the % trickle up as I descended down a mountain.
There’s no “solidifying” anything with this guy. His reign is based on his whims and emotions.