I actually upgraded off cycle due to the satellite SOS feature. Including the hardware and 2 years of service was impressive. The new watch was also exciting hitting a segment that was previously unaddressed by any prior Apple Watch.

But those are relatively niche. A majority of people in the United States probably do not remember the last time they were entirely out of cell range. Not to say that the SOS feature isn't great, just it won't resonate with a lot of people. I would argue that the watch is the in the same boat, and the cross-over of the people who want emergency SOS and the people who want a beefy hiking/Garmin-style watch is nearly 1:1. They hit a home-run for some people, but not the mass market appeal they've been known for for 15+ years.

You have a way different cellphone carrier experience than I. There are tons of dead zones in the city and driving out of the city it gets hilly quickly, with a corresponding total lack of signal.

I rarely leave the city, and when I do, it is to the suburbs.

And the move to 5nm for the A14 (sampling since 2019) will yield more chips per wafer. Either way, Apple is very forward looking on supply chain and has been planning this for a decade. Remember when they owned the majority of the nand market due to long term supplier contracts?

Interesting thought. Will the functional yield really be much higher? Because there could be more wasted chips?

For vendors using metal it could be seamless. There would also be gains had through ML and neural engine in image, video and audio processing. Not to mention dedicated video hardware decode. Time will tell, but I don’t see adobe being punitive there. They make money on software subscriptions and are already bringing native photoshop to iOS.

I suspect that for every customer they lose for someone needing to boot natively they will gain more than one from performance, cost and form factor flexibility enabling much more desirable machines. Batteries add both size and weight so you can get thinner and lighter and still have a functional keyboard.

Why do people believe Apple will price these machines cheaper than their Intel offerings?

I believe this will enable new form factors given PPW and higher performant systems free of power and thermal constraints on desktop. It may take some time, but I think this will lead to significantly greater long term sales and market share. Apples lead is rather significant in this space and the only computer with that soc will be a Mac.

Yes; they will be able to open service centres and also facilitate purchases through the showroom, both of which were not previously possible.

Pencil does work with iPad and sidecar which is a much better experience for editing vs what would amount to a very small Wacom tablet on the trackpad (vs effectively an iPad sized Cintiq).

Ahrefs and moz have large amounts of tutorial content and posts that dig into current issues.

I was excited to follow the original scaled composite work with Burt and spaceship one (winning the X Prize) but time has passed and stage reusability appears to be a better long term solution than a carrier solution. I think space ship 2 will meet a similar fate against blue origins approach with new Shepard and of SpaceX decides to sell space tourist spots in dragon 2. You need to try different approaches to find what works and the industry should be thankful for these experiments!

I think this is great and will encourage the industry to do the same to compete. Of course, not aircraft will have this and it doesn't replace maintaining LOS but more situational awareness the better. Eventually UAVs and manned aircraft need to share the same immediate airspace and this is a step in that direction.