Re: Why is Apple choosing Google's Gemini to power Siri?

On 2026-01-14 14:34, Joel W. Crump wrote:

On 1/14/26 5:23 PM, Alan wrote:
 

it's you who are the dummy, with your haughty attempts to lord over others, your need to make my age "young" explains this, you've lived an ordinary life where late 40s isn't that old, well I'm not claiming it is but it's older for me than it was for you, it's obvious.

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And yet you cannot see the problem with supporting the contention that the "average selling price" of a Mac is $3,000...
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...with a statement that it "might start approaching" that figure.
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Your "calc 2 professor" would be so ashamed.

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Why do I need to address that claim?  It's obviously a lot more than most pay for a new Mac.  And yet Apple's actual prices are in the ballpark.

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If it's "obviously a lot more than most pay"...
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...then it's "obviously" not the average and the average is "obviously" "a lot" lower than that.

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It wasn't my claim.

 

That literally WAS your claim.

  I never claimed people were paying $3000.  Even by Apple's standards, that'd be hard to believe.  My point was about the real prices Apple does charge, the way they gouge on options, with a starting price that's already high.
 

You claimed in support of the assertion that the AVERAGE selling price of a Mac was around $3,000
I realize you haven't gotten to basic statistics yet, but for the average of something to be X, there must be amounts X + n.