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It's not that the Apple tax disappeared, it's just that everyone else in the electronics business lost their minds with their pricing.
Apple has gotten a lot better priced over years, honestly they have some of the best deals in tech nowadays, especially if you can apply for the education discounts
FYI the option key symbol is a path, which braches off to an other option - an ALTERNATIVE option. The command symbol is a swedish symbol for 'place of interest' or a feature symbol.
I’ve never understood it. My 1300 Mac last 7 years while my friends went through 3 cheap laptops in the same period.
8:50 every time you’ve done that, I’ve held my breath. I don’t know why. It’s not even my phone.
the SE 3 having AOD is the best thing they did for the SE line
"Agentic coding" that's something new I've heard- is that the new, freshened up term for vibe coding?
0:23 Pro Laptop, Pro Tablet, Pro Earbuds & Ultra watch - with an ‘Air’ phone in the centre of it all is the rarest combo I’ve ever seen 😂
comparison is the thief of joy, you shouldnt comapre the high end with the baseline version, just put the usual one in the drawer and switch and enjoy the time you have with them
The only Apple tax is on storage. If you ignore the storage tax they are the most competitive products on the market
Love that you are taking on "The low end theory" —this is admirable and I look forward to hearing the results. I have long suspected I overbuy when I get an Apple product out of an oversimplified and likely misinformed belief that "the baseline can't be that good". I look forward to being wrong.
9:10 Ceramic Shield 1 and 2 are basically the same glass in terms of shatter resistance. 2 has a new process added to the manufacturing that puts particles in between the crystals that increases the resistance to micro-scratches that Ceramic Shield 1 was very prone to. The reason Apple doesn’t put it on the back is it wouldn’t have much of a point to it since frosting the glass achieves the same effect of hiding micro scratches
Watch the apple tax reappear when the industry prices for RAM and Flash memory normalise after a couple of years.
Well this is exactly my setup on left , iPad 11 , AirPods 4, 17e and neo, feels great that it’s not useless hardware like 10 years ago with 12 inch MacBook and overpriced like Apple started doing since 2017 with a 1000 dollar phone and etc
It did take a chip-RAM shortage and supply chain issues for this to accidentally occur. It was not Apple's forward thinking.
21:52 I hope someone will figure out how to attach a Fitbit Air to the underside of a regular watch strap. In the meantime, I’m always wearing one at my ankle since i also rock a mechanical watch.
Wait, where'd that $500 baseline Mac Mini go
11:50 I got them. Because I HATE the tips on the Pros. I hate having something shoved into my ear canal. It's not comfortable at all. I'm so happy that Apple still makes the non-tip Airpods. For me, the bass is just fine and the noise cancellation works well enough. Is it as good as the Airpods Max? No, but the last flight I took I left the Max's at home and only used my 4's with ANC and it was just fine and I didn't have the extra bulk of the Max's (and that terrible carrying case). I also got the ANC 4s for about the same prices that the non-ANC ones are usually (Black Friday sale) so there's that.
“Space, how does it work.” Well, space is a series of tubes…
I’m begging you, you gotta put a curve in the brim of your 🧢 😂