MacBook Neo has in a way unified the platforms. The only difference is essentially what OS is booted up with the chip.

That was already the case with the M-series chips, which are shared between Macs and higher-end iPads. The Neo just extends it to the A-series as well.

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bottlepalm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yep I know, and now using a last gen A chip, I feel they are really rubbing our faces in it.

Like Apple is saying, "Nice iPhone 17 Pro w/ A19 w/ vapor cooling chip you have there; you know you run a full general purpose OS on it, but we're not gonna let you, nanananana :p"

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medhir 2 hours ago | parent [-]

No exactly, Apple is playing in our faces, all while people continue to defend the “differences” of device categories and the subsequent justification of shipping iPhones and iPads with locked bootloaders.

	▲	bottlepalm 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Unless you work for Apple or hold significant stock then I don’t see the logic in defending this choice to hamstring the iPhone. But even as an investor, I think Apple could bring a lot of people/money to the Mac ecosystem by getting them in with an iPhone lapdock.