"As we approach the holiday season, with our product lineup set, I'd like to share my gratitude to our retail AppleCare and channel teams for the work they are doing to support customers."
Right in the middle of that sentence is the key. Apple is entering the busy shopping season "with our product lineup set."
Halloween is the perfect time to indulge in the horror genre. Whether you're into movies, TV shows or braving a Stephen King novel, horror's scares hit different when the nights draw in. And creepy video games are no different.
QR-code menus are not really an advance. Even when everything goes just right––when everyone’s phone battery is charged, when the Wi-Fi is strong enough to connect, when the link works––they force a distraction that lingers through dessert and digestifs. “You may just be checking to see what you want your next drink to be,” Jaya Saxena observed in Eater late last year, “but from there it’s easy to start checking texts and emails.” And wasn’t it already too easy?
I can't imagine the next MacBook Pros to be anything but a spec update. What I am more interested to find out is the next Mac mini and Mac Pro.
I went back and look at Apple's press statement released back in June 2020, and Apple did promised the transition in "about two years" (emphasis mine). So, we are getting into 2023 before all the Intel Macs are gone from Apple's line up.
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