Comment by mathisfun123
9 hours ago
same reason they spend huge amounts of money on rolexes when seikos work better (the tech crowd isn't immune from vanity).
9 hours ago
same reason they spend huge amounts of money on rolexes when seikos work better (the tech crowd isn't immune from vanity).
If you seriously think apple products are nothing but a status item, you're deluding yourself and probably have been for decades.
If you seriously think apple cares about anything other than cell phones, you're deluding yourself and probably have been for decades.
...did you mean profit? I don't think they're manufacturing iphones just on the hope they delight you. This is also true of Google et al.
I don't get these weird parasocial emotional attachments/beefs people have with brands. Talk to a therapist.
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They've been selling phones for less than 20 years at this point? Though I suppose 1.9 is not equal to 1, so it gets the plural.
This 1000%. Data centres don't equate to medium sized labs and businesses. A stack of Macs is up and running without digging trenches, an electrician on staff and a department of PhDs to justify the spend.
It's likely that a stack of Macs will draw more power for slower prefill/decode than equivalently priced Nvidia GPUs. If power efficient inference is the goal, Macs are a non-starter.
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