Salman Haider Shah

> Be Apple > Make RAM soldered onto the logic board so that manual upgrade becomes impossible, repair becomes more expensive, 15 years ago! > Start charging 200$ for 8GB extra RAM in a time (2013) when RAM price was dirt cheap > Start charging 400$ for 16GB extra RAM in 2018 > People (including me) kept paying a premium anyway because the RAM wasn't upgradable manually > AI boom > Apple doubles (sometimes even more) most of their RAM upgrade cost and in general increases the base product price by 15-35% on MacBook and iPad. > People start blaming AI for the price hike, totally ignoring the past 15 years of Apple's shady tactics of forcing people to pay extra for RAM and storage upgrade. > Tim Cooked 🤭 Look, AI boom is absolutely the number 1 cause of recent RAM shortage and excessive price. But for Apple specifically, the calculation is different, they even increased the price of their refurbished products which shouldn't even see a price change since it's an old product that's already on their shelf.

There's nothing sweeter than being back at home 😍 Shot on Oppo Find X9 Ultra with Photon Camera app 📸 #PhotonCamera #shotOnOppo #shotOnSnapdragon

Behind Apple's marketing buzzwords like Fusion Camera, Four/Eight Lenses in your pocket, etc., there is a lot of confusion about the actual improvements of the latest iPhone. Breaking down yesterday's #AppleEvent from a photographer's perspective. A thread 🧵