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Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices
Apple is planning to raise prices in response to the ongoing memory shortage. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook says "price increases are unavoidable:" We're doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we've been trying to shield our customers from the increases, but the situation has become unsustainable. Cook doesn't say when Apple plans on raising prices or which products will be affected. The company has already stopped selling the Mac Studio with 512GB of RAM in March and later raised the starting price of the Mac Mini to $799 after dropping the cheaper $599 option f … Read the full story at The Verge.
Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI
Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist.
VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription
VSCO is taking on Adobe with a new Studio Pro editing app rolling out today on iOS and coming to macOS later this year, as Bloomberg reports. At launch, the app offers tools for batch editing, style matching from a reference image, and sharing images through VSCO Galleries. VSCO says more features are coming later, including support for RAW images, advanced export options, and additional advanced editing tools like adjusting image aspect ratios. A press release says the app is made for managing high-volume editing projects, like "weddings, portraits, events, sports, school photography, and other large-scale photoshoots." The $500 per ye … Read the full story at The Verge.
Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors
The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.
