Journalist, anecdontalist. I work for the company. But don't let that fool you, I'm really an okay guy. There is no future in England's dreaming.
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Last Notes npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge It's just a massive own-goal which will probably undo much of the gains he might have made with elderly voters from the national service nonsense. "Remembering the fallen" is a bit of a religion for that demographic – and Sunak just ignored it. Wow. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Leaving aside all points about policy (and I think everyone knows how I feel about that) Sunak's decision to leave France, avoid a commemoration of D-Day (which Starmer went to!) and come back *to do a recorded interview* show quite how bad at this whole politics thing he is. Truly terrible. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Whooo! I know what I’m doing this weekend npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub12d9…z92a And it is VERY entertaining! npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1gj8…jhul Absolutely no, under any circumstances npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Of course a venture capitalist doesn’t believe that corruption should be punished. That would threaten his business too much. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge In journalism it’s always important to get the local angle npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1pcr…tq84 Hopefully nothing so horrific. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub13zy…3zww Ahh, Kim’s handwriting once again foxes the nation npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge The traditional way of testing out a new Apple Pencil. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1vfd…dmff Novel: middle class voyage of discovery. Movie: Cthulhu is in the shed. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I guess I will find out at some point. (2/2) npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Round in the side garden there used to be a low, neatly trimmed little hedge, acting as a little break between gardens. Because I haven’t touched it for about four years, it’s become a large unkempt hedge, with brambles growing through it and crawling over the top of the old shed. This week’s job: tame that hedge. The shed used to be my father in laws and is basically untouched - I think I have been in there twice, and have never used it. Lord knows what’s inside. (1/2) npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub12jv…gf8c You can stick with Windows 10 longer, although it will cost you: npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub18x5…fsql Not, of course, if you’re using incognito mode with edge, Firefox, chrome or Opera. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Now about these options you're presenting me with... npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1cvv…mv8d Another thing I've always said is I can teach almost anyone to write a news story in a day – it's a formula, craft not art. Where the magic happens is when you find out the information to put in it. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge This is what journalism mostly is: persistently pulling at the thread of something you find, to the point where you know something interesting is going on. It takes time and effort, but anyone can do it – you just need to be methodical. As I always say to new journalists, if you think you're job is writing, you're in for a disappointment. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge There are definitely times when the Urge to do Journalism bites. For example: I'm sat drinking a coffee overlooking Whitstable harbour. There's a ship unloading, and I search for the name. This leads me to find out that it was impounded earlier this year for a bunch of safety violations, and is owned by a reasonably elaborate bunch of shell companies. Probably nothing illegal, but quite a lot of playing "pass the asset" from one company to another. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Every time Elon Musk has run a software company he’s failed. So of course his VC mates are falling over themselves to give him money for xAI, because VCs make rational decisions. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1y9w…4ayf ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1y9w…4ayf Speaking of good things… what’s the plan with iA Writer for Windows? It’s still easily my favourite writing app on that platform. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1y9w…4ayf Oh now I’m tempted. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge You know, Bing, these are not the most helpful suggestions for follow on searches for my query about Lenovo Copilot+ PCs. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1lna…86xs That’s the future I want to see in my lifetime npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1xsy…cevg So, so tempted npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Tempted to write an article headlined "Are LLMs really artificial intelligence?" because... well you know what the answer is. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub12mc…xdp7 That bird is just so round, it's like birds I would draw when I was three years old. Adorable. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Someone should probably tell Rishi Sunak that if he seriously believes that young people are being radicalised, teaching them how to shoot modern weapons might not have the outcome he thinks it will. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1m95…e2mh I love it (although probably not as much as some of the local cats do) npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub14fx…jp2v It's a really good question! Apparently the answer is "no one really knows". npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge One of the delights of this time of year: the tiny fledglings working out that you can go into the peanut feeder and just grab food. The little floofball at the top hasn’t got it yet npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge My fabulous friend Emily is standing for the Green Party in Kettering, and you can contribute to her campaign. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1dpw…tz9l I wrote this mostly as a bit of snark, but the more I think about it the more I think that a voluntary, paid way of people in my age bracket giving something back wouldn’t be a bad idea. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1f6a…pnql When it gets things right, it really is magic. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1vj2…thgx Green Party member reporting for duty :) npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1ekp…lvl3 And then taken out the back and given a second one. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Also, if "I got us through a World War" wasn't enough to get Churchill elected, it seems a little unlikely that your botched "getting through" the pandemic is going to cut much mustard. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I haven't really been keeping up with the omnishambles that is the Tory election campaign, so I'm only just finding out that "we got you through Covid" is one of their campaign lines. Sure, you got us through it, by setting rules that you were ignoring at the time to such a degree the PM had to resign. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1kx8…0sus Y’reet, youth? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1xr9…f2ld In the glasshouse, throwing stones 😀 npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I would be much more supportive of compulsory national service for 50-60 year olds. The ones who got free education, affordable housing to buy, etc. It’s about time we gave something back to our country. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Hey, Copilot, you OK hun? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1yx6…zf5r Point 3 - WAIT what what what? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub198t…hasj Why did I not know about espanso? NEIL THIS IS YOUR FAULT. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Curry sweats are the best sweats npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub13h2…fr8q And I did, loudly and longly. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1ssd…gd7s Nowhere near enough. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I'm playing with using Orion, the webkit-based browser made by Kagi. So far it's pretty impressive. Mac/iOS only at the moment, but they're planning a Linux version too npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Oh and if people could stop saying interesting things to me for about four hours I would greatly appreciate it. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Can I just have a small moment to swear about websites which only work properly on Chromium based browsers? Can I? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1cvv…mv8d Tick, tick and tick again! npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1527…eh7n At the moment I just remove the search bar from any Windows machine I use, becuase search is so bad it's a waste of space. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1skz…mvht Whoa, I cannot tell you how bad that is as a default behaviour for password fields. I would run a mile. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1qrq…fnks And you are right to be suspicious npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1pre…99k7 It's a good question, and I think points to another important point: the over-use of “AI”. If a system can't learn, it's not machine learning. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub16u7…uend Absolutely not trusting of MS. But neither am I going to dive in and *assume* that a tech works in a particular way without that tech being in my (and more qualified others) hands. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge People: "Machine learning needs to be entirely local and controlled by the user, not done in the cloud!” npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1vg3…fvc9 yeah, totally. Anything which uses even basic machine learning algos is now “AI”. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub154q…evek Yup. "What’s our AI strategy?" is the new “what's our Blockchain strategy?” npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1y30…ja63 Don't get me started. When I rant about this, there are a lot of “AND ANOTHER THING" moments. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1y5h…7m3c Got to get those VC dollars! npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub12zn…z0zw I am looking forward to someone doing this. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1y30…ja63 WELL... not if you talk to the youth, who all thing LLMs when you say "AI” npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge The funny thing about Microsoft's new Recall feature is how little actual "AI" it's doing. It's basically just making automatic screen captures, then running OCR and image recognition to create a semantic index you can search. Unless I'm missing something, there's no LLM (or small language model) used in it. Maybe in parsing queries? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1tzk…phly Just the standard stuff that comes with Wordpress.com (I don't self-host) npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub17nv…6ykh I'm a bit baffled by the passwords thing. It's not a keylogger, so you would have to be showing a password in plaintext on screen for it to be readable. How often does someone do that? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub12jc…a4uc Well exactly. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub199l…vjgv I totally have to visit sometime. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge This is just such a weird reading of this. The data is encrypted AND if you have Windows 11 Pro, also protected by Bitlocker. You would have to be parsing the sentence pretty oddly to read it as "not encrypted on Windows Home". npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Well that’s quite pretty npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1e2p…ljvc “Get this damn hippie off there! I didn’t come for some gooder!” npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge There's a wonderful tone which the seriously Christian* take when scolding someone who thinks their very conservative views = the heart of Christianity. This is that tone. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub13y8…hxk4 WELL... I would say Google enabled it, publishers created it. No one made us move to a free/maximum ads model. Some went down the paid subscriber model and have done well from it. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1g53…wrrc I would worry about AI lying if humans weren't also absolute masters at it. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge "Google will now do the Googling for you, and everyone who benefited from humans doing the Googling will very soon need to come up with a Plan B." Spot on, and what I've been saying for a while. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge If you’re in publisher SEO and the Google IO demos aren’t making you consider a new career, you’re probably not paying attention… npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub18jk…gark aww thank you! npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge WELL npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge "But does it run Linux?" #OldNerdJokes npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub17er…ht66 Oh totally. DHH is a complete asshat. But the points made about the ad are correct. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub14gd…7cgr Entirely accurate 😀 npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1fg4…22tg Tneir record is highly mixed. iPhones tend to get used a long time (my old iPhone 10 is still in use by one of my relatives!). But their anti-repair practices are appalling. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1fg4…22tg Professed quite often. Real? Well…. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I think is spot on. The culture has changed (and Apple doesn’t see it). But also Apple’s place in the culture has changed and it is just another tech giant. I would argue, though, that’s down to Apple itself, and its behaviour. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/09/dhh-crush npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge This ad was all “lemmings” and no “1984” npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub12ks…kf3h 🫣 npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub12ks…kf3h What have they done now? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Possibly my favourite Steve Albini story. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/30/steve-albini-rant-about-dance-music-turned-into-billboard npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Nooooo npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1zfn…ke9v 1871? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1txd…txmn Of course, there actually is a minifig. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Worth noting: “tandem OLED” isn’t an Apple thing. In fact, those screens have been around a couple of years, mostly being using in automotive where the long life, brightness and lack of burn-in are really valuable. I *think* the iPad Pro is the first device to use it outside of cars, though. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1qdf…wn0r It’s the fringe. I can’t resist the fringe. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Lord help me I’m watching “Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Easily the worst of the series. But hey Cate Blanchett. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge This is such a lovely thing to listen to. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1esw…830x I wonder if it's down to the horsepower required to run that screen – plus of course limited quantities at the moment (and I don't imagine that Apple sells a huge boatload of iPad Pros at those prices) npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1m67…vg4d Processor. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1v0a…hwrm I’m nodding along, which is a bad sign npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Crikey. M4. #Apple
