David Pierce

And that's a premium price.

I mean, the base iPhone 17, as one of our commenters just pointed out, isn't getting all of these features.

Yeah, this is wild.

This is... And I think...

to me there's a really interesting thing happening here too which is not just that it's uh it's dropping a bunch of relatively recent devices but also that it is creating this sort of fragmented sliding scale of what can do what that may be probably not a super long-term problem eventually people will get powerful enough devices and it'll be fine but like

How many years has Apple spent making fun of the fact that not every Android user is on the latest version of Android?

And it makes it harder to develop apps because you don't know what you're developing for, because a lot of people are going to be on older, less powerful devices that run old software and actually can't run the new software.

So you're like, do I leave a huge portion of my user base behind in order to support the new technology?

Or do I risk being late to the new technology?

Like, this is actually a problem Apple has been really good at avoiding.

with its products for a very long time.

And it feels like it is walking into at least a few years of really complicated fragmentation on that front.

There's a real like double whammy here, too, of number one, Apple spent years being very, very conservative with RAM allocations.

There's a ton.

of Apple devices out there with like eight gigs or less of RAM.

And now RAM apocalypse is upon us.

And so RAM is frigging expensive.

And it's not like they can suddenly, you know, ship a bunch of devices that have tons of RAM.

And you look at the MacBook Neo, which is an Uber hit, and by all means, a very great laptop.

Immediately,