Apple Set to Become First $4 Trillion Company
Apple Set to Become First $4 Trillion Company
Apple is on the brink of becoming the first company in history to surpass a $4 trillion market valuation, Fortune reports. Apple's stock...
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Not sure how to feel about that, honestly.
They deserve it for putting all the best engineers, designers, and developers under one roof and letting them do incredibly cool stuff.
But that’s not how they actually made that much money. They did it through labor exploitation in their supply chain and anti-consumer/monopolistic business practices.
What great design are they doing now? I feel they haven’t done anything good in a few years
My M4 Pro Mac Mini is pretty sweet maybe?
Not just sweet, but surprisingly for Apple, the M4 Mac mini is even decent value for money. If you want to buy a similar non-mac machine you can't do it for any less money. For ≈$1500, the comparable HP Z2 Mini comes with 16 GB of RAM and an 8 GB Nvidia T1000. For that price the Mac Mini comes with 24 GB of memory, shared but available to the GPU.
AirPods have some pretty fantastic UX, Vision Pro’s UX is miles ahead of anything else even at a higher price point.
Fun podcast episode about Apple sound design: https://www.20k.org/episodes/the-sound-of-apple-2
Vid about Vision Pro by an AR/VR industry expert who has a specific interest in UXD: https://youtu.be/REo1ugX5GSI
Better but can’t do anything the others can sadly. No games.
They released the Vision Pro this year. They were working on the Apple car. They supposedly have a Google home like device coming, as well as a doorbell. Hopefully between those two things we will start to see more devices that function with Apple home.
They're putting the charge port on the underside of mice.
There aren't any conceivable design improvements left to make..