That’s Apple’s fault, isn’t it, for not being able to make the AI the told people they could 2 whole years ago. Apple deserves as much ridicule as anyone can muster for that mistake, and for needing to “call a friend” to actually get it done.
Well, Apple started it… The show talks about what Apple does and Apple made a big strategic shift away from OpenAI and their own, in house AI, to use Google Gemini, so that is a major talking point… What exactly are they using, how are they using it and how does it differ from using Gemini directly. We had a similar discussion, when they adopted OpenAI 2 years ago.
here’s an interesting one! I have an iPhone 17 ProMax - my wife has an iPhone 16+. I wanted to get my wife a new phone before Apple started raising prices because of memory insanity. So I went on the Apple Store online and looked at the 17. Along the way I saw the iPhone 17e which I had read was amazing for the money! At any rate I read the tech specs and decided my wife would like it and it would do everything she needs in a phone! (she also has a 13" M2 iPad which she uses all the time at home. At any rate, long story short - I ordered her the 17e, traded in her 16+ to Apple and got the brand new $600 17e for $134 - I’m happy
We traded in my wife’s 12 mini for a 17e. The mini got to the point that there wasn’t enough space to update iOS on it. The 17e provides more than enough features / horsepower for her needs.
I’m annoyed (but not surprised) that Apple didn’t up the value of trade-ins for their devices in the wake of prices going up. Our RAM isn’t subject to market pricing to Apple.
I don’t keep my finger on the pulse of the real secondhand market. But I like to think you could get more from a used machine today than you could’ve 6 months ago. I don’t have a PS5, but if I did, I could probably sell it used more today than a couple of weeks ago.
It is market driven but Apple’s trade-in prices are not. They’re whatever Apple decides they are going to give you. It’s just a worse value now.
