Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Imagine this Date: 29 Apr 2026 03:48:00 GMT Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <10sohiv$2m1cq$1@dont-email.me> <10sre40$3gnu9$1@dont-email.me> <10srk41$3i8q4$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net TkPgn4aQVHjxfQKsexVspg/kAYw4d0X6w5KI8La2MIlgZaF6oQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:IJ0KXn94+9rvB71uZwFeuZoVSr4= sha256:UcegN2IFmS7vDOkEJAwjb4wuIQ2ukADAjsa7mPps78A= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.advocacy:145188 comp.os.linux.advocacy:711854 On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:41:36 -0400, Tom Elam wrote: > On 4/28/26 6:59 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:39:59 -0400, Tom Elam wrote: >> >>> A company meeting of high level Apple managers. The financial >>> representative laments the fact that there are millions of binned >>> iPhone chips produced every year that have little or no value to >>> Apple. >>> >>> Somebody from marketing pipes up and asks if those low end binned >>> chips can run Mac OS? >> >> “In theory, yes.” >> >> “Could we sell them?” >> >> “In theory, yes.” >> >> “Why ‘In theory’?” >> >> “If you want our company’s premium brand to be associated with cheap, >> throwaway machines, sure, why not.” > > I'm pretty sure the NEO is not a throwaway machine. I wouldn't call it a throwaway but it does smell like it was designed around leftover parts like the A16.