As a game developer for mobile, I call bullshit on apple. With 3GB on many iPhone models, and around 50% ram limit per app, my open world online game can use no more than 1.5gb. This is hilarious, even though CPU can easily run the game.

I was actually talking to someone about this the other day. My current Macs will be my last.

They’ve always robbed people like this but we could always add more RAM ourselves. Now you can’t. The same goes for storage.

I just bought a 4TB M.2 for my PC for $180. Apple charges $1200.

Screw Apple, I’m done!

Am I missing something that apple seems to just be ignoring the massive speed loss of having to swap to a much slower SSD over and over therefore negating anything their fancy in chip memory can do?

I feel like buying M2 14” MBP’s on the resale market is the only way to “fight back.”

Give them nothing at all for the MB Pro 14” M3 not-pro.

It appears not even Apple is immune from “enshittification”.

Even relatively casual users who load up on browser tabs and inefficient Electron apps (household names like Slack, Teams, Discord, etc.) can find performance compromised by running out of RAM.

Gosh, if the Reddit community would have the same outrage towards that, as to the base model being 8GB, we would be in a better world. The increasing demands in productivity apps and in games due to shitty code is just ridiculous.

And it really sucks for consumers, because if this negative trend won’t stop, your new 16GB RAM MacBook will be EoL in a few years. Unlike your old 2013 that you could use for almost a decade.

Apple has historically been so incredibly cheap with storage and memory.

The 1st generation 2012 Retina MacBook Pro started at 8GB RAM. 11 years later they still ship a $1600 USD MacBook Pro with 8GB.

From 2017-2019 the $1000 USD iPhone X to 11 Pro had a measly 64GB of storage.

Even more disgraceful was Apple selling a 21.5” iMac with a 5400RPM spinning hard disk drive… in early 2020.

The only thing that seems to get Apple to change their stubborn slow moving ways is a combo of bad media press, class-action lawsuits that worked with their butterfly keyboards and low sales.