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iPad at 16 – Redundant or Post-PC?

ndr42 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:14:09 +0000

Article URL: https://asymco.com/2026/04/09/ipad-at-16/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704829

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ndr42 in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"

ndr42 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:59:16 +0000

Why replace oil dependency with uranium dependency (presumably from Russia)? Costs are not the only consideration.

New comment by ndr42 in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

ndr42 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:31:58 +0000

Tesla has an P/E Ratio of 332 (in comparison, Apple has 31.3) - the stock price is not based on measurable numbers so I don't think that the unsold EVs will have any consequences for the valuation.

When reality finally sets in it will not be pretty.

Source: At the End of https://asymco.com/2026/03/31/melius-highlights-fcf-while-re...

Edit: typos

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them

ndr42 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:17:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552617

Points: 100

# Comments: 91

There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40

ndr42 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:26:55 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/03/there-can-still-be-only-one-highlander-is-40/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479156

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by ndr42 in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

ndr42 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:48:09 +0000

Nice, except it doesn't work in Safari. Some are hidden in the Edit menu but most are still there.

New comment by ndr42 in "Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch"

ndr42 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:56:15 +0000

I think the target demographic is also young people raised with iPhones. So for them the new interface design is good for similarity (not for older Mac-people). As if apple planed that all along...

New comment by ndr42 in "Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch"

ndr42 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:48:41 +0000

They announced a sales record where the metric is "sold to somebody that never ever had a mac before" combined with "in the first week of availability". The headline is worse than Cook's tweet quoted in the article.

To get this record you need to have a long time were your costumers were buying something else from you (like Phones) and have a lot available inventory in a lot of places in the first week combined with a great media coverage. 3 things that Apple has an advantage in.

As @ibero above points out it is more important for apple to tap into the vast demographic of relatively young iPhone/iPad customers - the older Mac customers are buying different machines.

New comment by ndr42 in "Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch"

ndr42 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:53:38 +0000

I don't think that apple will be affected more than their peers.

New comment by ndr42 in "Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch"

ndr42 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:37:33 +0000

I agree - I just would like to know what a "best launch week ever" means in numbers

New comment by ndr42 in "Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch"

ndr42 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:33:30 +0000

Well, I remember a time where I had to restart my PowerMac 7200 a lot because of some bug in MacOS 8...

Edit: Apple turns 50 this year

New comment by ndr42 in "Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch"

ndr42 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:24:15 +0000

Cook: "Mac just had its best launch week ever for first-time Mac customers."

I don't doubt that it will sell well (I ordered one myself) but I really dislike this kind of marketing. I would like to get some numbers not "best launch on a Tuesday in a year that ends on 6..."

Edit: (Apple stopped reporting sales numbers in late 2018)

Apple Wanted to Buy Halide to Boost iPhone 18 Pro's Camera App – Lawsuit

ndr42 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:31:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/21/apple-wanted-to-buy-halide-to-boost-iphone-18-pro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467386

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by ndr42 in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

ndr42 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:40:19 +0000

I agree, but boy does it look beautiful!

New comment by ndr42 in "Mac on-screen camera indicator light"

ndr42 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:09:13 +0000

The link does not work in germany - it gets lost while redirecting to the german part of the apple website.

New comment by ndr42 in "The biggest surprise of the MacBook Neo"

ndr42 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:22:59 +0000

Interesting calculation: "This means that the average PC is more than twice the cost of the MacBook Neo."

The biggest surprise of the MacBook Neo

ndr42 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:22:59 +0000

Article URL: https://asymco.com/2026/03/18/the-biggest-surprise-of-the-macbook-neo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427719

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by ndr42 in "No accountability: Bills would ban liability lawsuits for climate change"

ndr42 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:16:13 +0000

There is also the opposite trend in Europe, e.g. the European Court for Human Rights has ruled in 2024 that Switzerland violated human rights due to insufficient climate protection. So there are constitutional human rights that have courts to oblige states to enact climate protection laws.

No accountability: Bills would ban liability lawsuits for climate change

ndr42 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:08:25 +0000

Article URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14032026/republican-legislation-shielding-polluters-from-climate-lawsuits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399257

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by ndr42 in "What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable"

ndr42 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:21:27 +0000

What does "best" means? Which population size would you consider comparable to the US (i assume you don't meant it in a way in which Germany would be the best 83,6 mil population country in the World)?